President Elect Obama must govern from the center if he is to have a lasting legacy. What does this mean? Simply put, solutions to problems must be sustainable over time. Solutions which are overturned with changes of political party are not useful or productive. Legacies are built on centrist resolutions to problems.
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Take a look at Barack Obama’s life. His whole life is about hard work, education, empathy for others, and compromise. Check that last word, compromise. Whatever Obama believes about particular issues, he is all about compromise. Combine compromise with intellect and integrity - and you have a powerful leader.
Barack Obama was born to a white [...]
Is there something wrong with being intellectual? There was a time when Republicans were proud of their position on advancing education, proud of elite education, proud that America offered educational opportunities to all. But something has gone wrong. The Republicans of the past thirty years have discredited thier greatest strength - the opportunity of America.
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The idea of responding to Sarh Palin is contemptible. Responding to McCain is bad enough. But McCain has put the country in this position - and respond we must. The latest attack by Palin is to suggest in a demeaning manner that Barack Obama “… knows something about rhetorical flourishes.”
Be whatever you want, Sarah Palin [...]
Education, experience, life - what is really important when choosing a President. Morality, integrity, honesty, compassion, empathy - we could go on with our hopes for the next President - but for now, let’s look at education.
John McCain “…graduated, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. 1958, and the National War College, Washington, D.C. [...]
Our father was a veteran of World War II. He came home with four Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, never to speak of his experience. He kept his silence until his death at age eighty-five. He did not talk about the atrocities of war because the memories were too painful. As America entered other [...]
