he has billed it as a movement

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質問者：iamgreen
質問日時：2008/02/29 14:35
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“Politics is about policy, but it’s also about giving people some kind of sense of participating in a common venture with their fellow citizens,” Mr. Wolfe said.
Philosophers call it “civil religion,” using the language of religion and elevation to talk about your country. A classic example is Ronald Reagan’s summoning of the “city on a hill.” That, Professor Wolfe said, was the parallel Mr. Obama was hinting at when he talked about Reagan as a transformative leader.

“A soft civil religion is something our country desperately needs at a time of deep partisanship,” Mr. Wolfe said. “He wants to go back to the Reagan years as a Democrat, with Democratic policies.”

But others see in this same language a more cynical cult of personality.

“What is troubling about the campaign is that it’s gone beyond hope and change to redemption,” said Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton (and a longtime friend of the Clintons). “It’s posing as a figure who is the one person who will redeem our politics. And what I fear is, that ends up promising more from politics than politics can deliver.”

From the day Mr. Obama announced his candidacy, he has billed it as a movement, and himself as the agent of generational change.

billed itのitが何を指し示すのか教えていただけるとありがたいです。
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/weekinreview/1 …

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回答者： tjhiroko
回答日時：2008/03/01 01:29

前回回答させていただいたこの部分ですが

＞It’s posing as a figure who is the one person who will redeem our politics.
大誤訳をしてしまったような気がします。こないだはオバマが大人物を気取ってる、と書きましたが、このposeを「提示する」という意味でとらえ、目的語をwho以下の節とするとこういう訳になりますね：
「誰が我々の政治を救済する人物であるかということを象徴として提示しているんだ」
こうするとこのIt's posing のitはcampaign となりすんなり受け入れられますし、文の内容としてもはるかにぴったりです。

ということで、こないだは大間違いをしてしまって申し訳ありませんでした。