Letters to the Editor
-
Still the best potential to be a great and not just a good president
I worry that Clinton's best hope is to be a president as good as her husband. She may never be as popular, but maybe she would be a (slightly) better president than he was. Edwards might be as good as Kennedy? If Kennedy had survived. Maybe at worst like Carter? Which is not a put-down.
But who will Obama be like?
Joe Canston wrote earlier this month a suggestion that Obama hand over his passport to prove that he has traveled abroad in Europe. Is he serious?
Shapiro suggests that Obama doesn't know his audience because he talked about slumming it at Target (who said he was slumming it?).
Kerry was the candidate most popular in Europe. Clinton served on the board of Walmart for years. The soundchamber keeeps echoing.
In simple terms, why I'm voting for Obama:
he is the son of a hippie and an African absentee father who actually stands by his voting record on every issue:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm
For him to be in this race at all is nothing short of historically miraculous--, and yet I also believe that he has the best chance of the top contenders of being a great, not just a good president. I base this on his voting record, his books, his speeches that I have heard, and his willingness (and desire) to speak to people he doesn't agree with here and elsewhere in the world, in order to advance the progressive agenda that he (like the other leading contenders) and the American people deeply need and want. My top three issues: Iraq war (end it!), the environment (save it!) and healthcare (reform it!).
There are worse reasons to support a candidate, right?