Q: WHAT IS "OBAMA" ABOUT? A: ...TO BE PRESIDENT

Q: WHAT IS "OBAMA" ABOUT? A: ...TO BE PRESIDENT
By guest blogger Jeff Kizer

Oh John,...can't you see that there is only a nano-slivers difference between what Obama and Clinton actually believe and want to accomplish? That the real difference between them lies, not in what they believe, but in what they will actually be able to accomplish in Washington? If we choose to return to the Hillary and Bill scenario of the 90's, that some seem to remember so fondly, we must also remember the bad things: the gridlock in congress, the loss of both houses by the first mid-term election, the scandal-plagued administration that was so beleaguered it overshadowed the good they did and prohibited much of the good they could have done.

The bottom line is: which one of these two candidates can galvanize the support of a two-thirds majority in congress? If we look back, empirically we know the Clinton's can't. If we look at the amazing support that Obama has rallied, from the grassroots on up to the establishment, how high he has risen--and how much money he has raised--in such a short time on the national scene, if we look at his ability to inspire people, to make them "feel good," we can also remember that these people have congressmen and senators in Washinton who will need to answer to them. Apathy, based largely on the distaste for divisive political infighting, has long been the reason for the disconnect between the people and Washington, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Obama has done more to end this in one year of campaigning than Hillary has done in her entire career. Whether in congress or in the country at large, Hillary has real enemies, Obama has none.

Lastly, when you say "his public life is unexamined," I can only think you mean-- by you. Do you really think his opponents have not examined every nook and cranny of his existence? They have. The only problem is they haven't found one thing that would suggest he is anything other than what he is. And to the guy who thinks change needs to come from deep within each of us: What in God's name do you think is happening here? The sad fact is, our dominance in the world has been permanently dislodged, and will take more than both of them put together to even try to restore. But Obama puts a new face on a tired, old, has-been of a country, and gives us the opportunity to work peacefully within and amongst this new world of ours, rather than continue on this quixotic misadventure of trying to force our way in to the world's remaining oil reserves, and shooting ourselves in the foot in the process.