Larger Than...

Guest Thickwitness, Sherlynn Hicks, lives in Southern California. She is an actor, writer, and regular contributor to BrooWaha Los Angeles. Sherlynn is a self proclaimed Buffy enthusiast. Hicks is one of two original girls with hips and has the power to oust or ordain all potential thickwits. She's got more backside than you've got wit, and more wit than you've got backside. Sucks to be you. Plus, Sherlynn's way too fine. See?

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Sasha Obama with Secret Service Agent at Iowa Minor League Game

There's a photograph in the newly released Esquire Magazine, the one with Barack Obama on the cover. In the center of the frame is his daughter Sasha, eyes wide, mouth open. Michelle's face is crinkled in a tickled laugh. The camera catches the back quarter of Senator Obama. His hand is reaching past his daughter to someone's hand in the crowd to shake. His face is tilted upwards, surveying the crowd obscured in the black background of the photograph. Sasha's yellow hair ribbon is tied in an askew bow and cute as hell. The caption reads "The day after announcing for president in February 2007, Obama greeted a crowd in Chicago. His daughter Sasha, trying to get her father's attention, shouted, 'I love you, Daddy!'"



I can't stop crying.



This little girl might to lose her daddy to things larger than her existence. The look on her face. That adoring, loving look on her face clamoring for her daddy's attention in a crowd of adoration less personal than her own, is...heartbreaking.



But it is also indicative of my fears for my preferred candidate. I worry that if elected, will he be up to the task? And if up to the task, will he be allowed to excel? And if allowed to excel, will his excellent choices be free of corruption? And if free of corruption, will the path of this country be righteous? And if the path of this country is righteous, will the world's as well?



It's as if I don't want to lose my preferred candidate to the things that are larger than his daughter's existence.