Comments on: Obstacle Course http://themoderatevoice.com/10050/obstacle-course/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Seth http://themoderatevoice.com/10050/obstacle-course/comment-page-1/#comment-41363 Seth Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:22:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2007/01/03/uncategorized/obstacle-course/#comment-41363 Check this out for a <a href="http://independents4obama.blogspot.com/search/label/Qualifications" rel="nofollow">partial list</a> of Senator Obama's accomplishments. <a href="http://independents4obama.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Independents for Obama</a> Check this out for a partial list of Senator Obama’s accomplishments.

Independents for Obama

]]> By: Kim Ritter http://themoderatevoice.com/10050/obstacle-course/comment-page-1/#comment-41190 Kim Ritter Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:22:52 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2007/01/03/uncategorized/obstacle-course/#comment-41190 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. 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.

]]> By: Kevin H http://themoderatevoice.com/10050/obstacle-course/comment-page-1/#comment-41185 Kevin H Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:02:26 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2007/01/03/uncategorized/obstacle-course/#comment-41185 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. 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.

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