A lot of folks fondly reminiscing today about where they were and what they were doing one year ago. One year seems a bit premature for nostalgia, and my reaction to it was dismissive initially. Some of the nostalgia seems like a salve for the disappointments of the last year or for the expected poor showing by Democrats tonight. (But I suppose it’s not unusual for our nostalgia to say more about us in the present than it does about the past.) Then I watched this outtake from the HBO documentary on Obama debuting tonight and suddenly a year felt like a very long time, and the ’08 campaign like a quaint and simple time. Which I guess means I succumbed to the nostalgia, too, albeit unwillingly.
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