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My kids on meeting Ferrer and Obama: "That was so awesome, mami"
"Is this Fernando?", asked my youngest son as he pointed to a campaign flier while waiting for Ferrer who was making a campaign stop with Barak Obama.
"Yes honey, that is Fernando Ferrer".
"So is he real?"
"What do you mean is he real?"
My oldest jumped in, "Is he a real person? You know, as in not an actor in a movie or something."
The question took me by surprise. It had never occurred to me they needed to meet Fernando Ferrer in order to make a connection. "Yes honey, he is a real person
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Cool!
I felt much the same as your kids did when I shook Jimmy Carter's hand at a book signing at UCLA when I was a grad student. One of the few times in my life when I was tongue tied and star struck.
I am working on a longer version of the piece Newsday killed
This is really an important issue to write about because, quite frankly, there is no scalability in today's political system. People think Bloomberg's money made politics bigger. I argue that on the contrary, the reason why he spent so much money proves the political process, the interaction between candidates and incumbents, between citizens and the government happens at a much more small level --and that's why it takes so many resources and money.