1.0 link 106760 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-matthews/obama-is-is-full-of-it-ho_b_106760.html Emily Dickinson famously wrote, "hope is the thing with feathers." It's a beautiful homily, three stanzas of metaphors that reveal truths about the human heart and the indomitable nature of the spirit. It also mostly rhymes. Barack Obama, our next likely president -- disregarding morbid Doris Lessing-esque poo-pooers, or a jittery electorate overcome with a necrophilic hunger only a bespotted failed war "hero" can slake -- is full of it. Hope, I mean. He's audacious with the stuff. This, to...

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