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Obstacle Course
The latest hurdles thrown up to stop Barack Obama from running (part 152 in the series).
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I think Ruth’s criticism really boils down to the fact that Obama wouldn’t be the type of president we have been used to in the past few decades, but I don’t think that would be a bad thing.
We are used to presidents with big, sweeping plans for this country. The American ideal of a president is someone who will go out there and rally the troops to one cause or another, and that this cause will validate them and their legecy. We like to have this idea that our president is a man with some sort of divine or singular vision of the shining future of posibilities.
Well, America’s visions have perhaps oversteped their means, and no recent president has really accoplished enough of their personal quests.
So I submit that maybe its a damn good sign that Obama has no idealogical bones to pick with the constitution. He seems to be what we need, a man of reflection, moderation and practicality.
We need a non-ideological healer to lead us through this perilous time—the way Gerald Ford led us out of Watergate and Vietnam. Reasonableness and pragmatism seem like such rare and valuable virtues to me at the moment. Like Mr. Ford, Obama seems comfortable in his own skin and honest as the day he was born. He’s been bringing his own obstacles to winning out in public- before the press can tear him apart. Good for him.
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