I grew up loving looking through old Time/Life issues - seeing stories told in pictures. Moments captured. Life through a lens is always made stronger, more heroic, more poignant.
This
series of photos from Callie Shell does that.
It's the small moments - I think this is my favourite. Barack just reading the paper and Michelle just resting. It reminds me of how I might sit and just enjoy a moment with my wife.
That's no reason to elect a President - but it shows a humanity and a person that I can't imagine the McCain-Palin campaign ever wanting us to see.
Powerful images - that capture hope and promise and something beyond the rampant blogging/punditry/nastiness that seems to have overtaken this election race. And for the first time in a long time - it gives me hope in the humanity that is inherent in that United States. A humanity a lot of us out here in the world are wanting to see again.