Obama
I can't believe I'm doing this or saying this. I've fallen in love with a politician -- I'd almost given up on that moniker.
I just saw an interview on the Charlie Rose show with Barack Obama, young senator from Illinois and author of The Audacity of Hope.
He is incisive, clear-headed, modest (not humble, but certainly, not arrogant), and his approaches to our myriad social/national/international problems are workable and make sense. For example, he agreed that for 55 year olds and up who have lost their jobs to outsourcing, retraining is not an option. But he has a plan which demands that they give a little and get lesser jobs while being assisted through the transitions. Regarding Iraq, he says we should phase out a withdrawal, talk to the Iraqis and say decide what you want for your country -- unity, separateness, etc. We'll try to help you plan to get there as we withdraw. And, brilliantly, he says talk with Syria and Iran who are sitting back enjoying our floundering about and say you can help Iraq reach its goal or you can deal with thousands of refuges flooding your borders, unrest spreading to your discontents, civil war looking like a good option to your minorities, etc. His opinion: they're loving our futility, but they won't want to paid the price for theirs.
And it goes on and on. He is an incredible young man. May he be safe. Since there are people who would like him to run for president in two years, he'll need to watch his back -- can't believe I'm saying that either.
As soon as the bookstores open tomorrow, I'll be in line to buy his book. Here is a charismatic, intelligent, young politician -- I thought we had run out of those!!
Check him out. He's worth watching.
I just saw an interview on the Charlie Rose show with Barack Obama, young senator from Illinois and author of The Audacity of Hope.
He is incisive, clear-headed, modest (not humble, but certainly, not arrogant), and his approaches to our myriad social/national/international problems are workable and make sense. For example, he agreed that for 55 year olds and up who have lost their jobs to outsourcing, retraining is not an option. But he has a plan which demands that they give a little and get lesser jobs while being assisted through the transitions. Regarding Iraq, he says we should phase out a withdrawal, talk to the Iraqis and say decide what you want for your country -- unity, separateness, etc. We'll try to help you plan to get there as we withdraw. And, brilliantly, he says talk with Syria and Iran who are sitting back enjoying our floundering about and say you can help Iraq reach its goal or you can deal with thousands of refuges flooding your borders, unrest spreading to your discontents, civil war looking like a good option to your minorities, etc. His opinion: they're loving our futility, but they won't want to paid the price for theirs.
And it goes on and on. He is an incredible young man. May he be safe. Since there are people who would like him to run for president in two years, he'll need to watch his back -- can't believe I'm saying that either.
As soon as the bookstores open tomorrow, I'll be in line to buy his book. Here is a charismatic, intelligent, young politician -- I thought we had run out of those!!
Check him out. He's worth watching.