"Recovery" is an apt headline to be appearing this week, over and over, in the media. Such is the damage from Sandy, authorities say recovery will take years, because recovery from that level of damage is very slow and, as Gov. Christie recognized, requires government and bipartisanship. How odd, maybe even magical, that the Sandy story presents us with a metaphor for another recovery in progress. To see how bad the Bush Administration disaster had become, by winter of 2008, click here.
Obama campaign signs say "Forward." Forward into continuing recovery, which is very slow, and not helped at all by rigidly partisan Republicans in Congress who vowed to make Obama a one-term president. Now arrives an "October surprise," this Sandy with its brutal metaphorical message. It came, it destroyed, it left, it can't be undone. Victims have only one way to go: forward, one step at a time. I empathize with them, and I will vote that way on Tuesday.
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