Oh Obama!
I am a big Obama fan. Although Hillary used to attend church with my grandmother and her “husband” Bill is my homie, I just don’t see her as real or genuine and she is lacking in charisma. Many might disagree that charisma is vitally important for a president, but to me a U.S. president does not really have a lot of power. Sure, he or she has more than say, I do, but the holder of the job is not omnipotent. A president is a spokesperson, a sort of interface between government and the people. A president needs damn fine people skills.
Obama is charming, good looking and smart and I really hope he’s our next president. At times it looks likely, when he has the majority of the popular vote, but DH says the fix is in, that Hillary’s cronies will get her in the White House no matter what, so every time I feel a little burst of hope, it gets dashed down like Mash-a-Mouse at the fair.
It kills me that this country is supposed to be a democracy, but as we saw in Florida not long ago, the democratic process is toilet paper. Why do we go through the motions, bother to vote when our vote doesn’t count for shit? Because we can, I guess, because we can.
I know I promised pet peeves for today, and I have my list ready and all. But it just had to be about Obama today. Tonight is Mississippi and he’s likely to win yet again, but it is still unbearably scarily posssible that Hillary will be our next president.
Pet peeves tomorrow, I promise.
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Wow! At last someone who sees the role of the President for what it really is.
I also believe Obama brings a global dimension to the White House like no other candidate and from a UK point of view I support Obama.
I agree. Not only is the president an interface for the American people, but also for the rest of the world. In the current situation of foreign affairs, Barack Obama is exactly what we need. Hillary technically lost in Texas, I had expected her to drop out of the race by now.
Thanks, Winslie Gomez and enkaybee for your comments. The global aspect is a crucial one and I feel Obama would be much more skilled at international diplomacy than Hillary, one example being his viewpoints on how to handle Cuba compared to hers.
No matter what the Clintons have to say they still come across very similar to McCain.
She has also stooped rather low in how she conducted herself and I just hope Obama does not get dragged into a silly fight.
From an international perspective, the world views Obama as a holistic and well rounded character, at home with the cut and thrust of US Politics.
I also feel he will bring a new relevance to the Christian-Muslim dialogue, which the world needs desperately or we are set to annihilate life as we know it.