A year has passed since Barack Obama went to live in the White House. Blog of the New Yorker some American intellectuals have commented on these twelve months and generally can not be said that the tones are enthusiastic. But the interventions, there is one in particular that I think is worth reading because - that we agree or not - it touches a subject of some interest also in Italy. He wrote Junot Diaz, author of Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which was released in Italy by Mondadori in Blue Highways, received the Pulitzer. "I've always been of the idea - Díaz attacks - that a president has, among its main tasks, to be a storyteller, a storyteller. We all know how stories are important: we need it, help us to grow and shape our universe ... To be successful, because his policy has followed in the electorate, a President must first tell a story. Throughout the years I have waited for Obama to exercise his muscles narrative to tell the story of his presidency, his administration, the story of where our country is going and why should we help move in that direction. A story consistent, understandable, compelling - so small that they can enter our minds and our hearts, and so large as to allow us, the public, to twist in its plot our experiences, our dreams, our fears. " The problem is that, according to Diaz, in this first year in office Obama has not this story told and not told even a less beautiful, unlike his opponents: "I've heard about health policies up to the utmost, but as he drew up ideas, his opponents were telling stories. Sure, they were ugly, full of distortions and outright lies, but spoke to the American people with the right language, that of narration ... A president can have a great vision, be a great orator and a superb politician, have courage, foresight, determination to make courageous choices, but all this is worth nothing if his vision, his courage, his choices are not space in the interweaving of a story. "
(More about Junot Diaz, here is an excerpt from its 2010 forecast, output at the beginning of the "Wall Street Journal:" We will spare enough. Do not read enough. We will not make enough volunteers ... We fell in love. We are bored. If we're lucky, we will find the courage to fall in love again. This year will end. We will make other predictions. Most do not come true. But no matter. Will be hoping will be hoping will be hoping. In the end I think it was maybe a year of shit because Superman came not because the cancer has not been defeated because we have become better but we must not forget that this is the only chance we will have in 2010. We owe it to love. We owe this honor. Despite all its flaws it must honor. Because someday in the future will be missed. That is all. Good night. ")
Note: In this post I condensed two episodes of heading Ex Press Release on the "manifesto" on 16 and 30 January 2010.
