1.0 link 80807 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/michael-chabon-gives-hims_b_80807.html Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer, has been one of the first among the famous in California to support publicly Barack Obama's bid for the presidency. Yesterday on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco he told us why. When he first encountered Obama, "I had to give myself permission to feel hope." After years of cynicism about politics, "I had to tell myself it would be okay." Chabon is now convinced that "we can aspire as a...

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