From, “Seeking Original Bliss,” by Maureen Dowd, 5/12/12,
The New York
Times:
In the diary entries she [Genevieve Cook] shared with David
Maraniss, whose new biography, “Barack Obama: The Story,” is excerpted in the
June Vanity Fair, Cook presages Obama’s relationship with bedazzled American
voters: passion cooling as he engages in a cerebral seminar and a delight in
doubt.
Sunday, Jan. 22, 1984: “A sadness, in a way, that we are
both so questioning that original bliss is dissipated….”
His embrace of gay marriage was not a profile in courage. It
was good, better than continued “evolving,” but not particularly brave. He has
been in office three and a half years and he is running for re-election, trying
to bring back the thrill with a lot of constituencies and donors who felt let
down by his temporizing. Who knows
how long he might have kept evolving, while his advisers gamed it out, if Joe
Biden, Arne Duncan and Shaun Donovan hadn’t forced his hand by speaking out in
such an unabashed way in support of same-sex marriage.
Dissipate: to break up and
scatter or vanish
Temporizing: to act to
suit the time or occasion
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