[1] Certain colorful enthusiasms

A few months ago, around the time of the inauguration of President Obama, I dared quote Bernard Shaw to an exuberantly hopeful audience in our small town of San Diego, CA.

The reactions consisted of confused shrugs and saddened disbelief at my "pessimism," with the exception of a handful of friends trained in the art of exercising healthy skepticism, particularly about dramatic and widespread positive changes in humanity, even when coming from the smartest and most charismatic of political figures.

But how to reach the others? how to communicate to them how misguided certain enthusiasms and hopes sound to those of us who share their nature but not their degree and tone? didn't seem possible at the time so I forgot about it until today when by chance came the answer, in the form of pictures truly worth a thousand words. Please enjoy:

http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/



Fabio Arciniegas A. - San Diego, CA April 2009