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February 02, 2008
The Real Uniter
This is my last love letter to Obama for the day.
My uncle lives in Indiana. He's nearly 70. He's an independent who has always voted for Republicans. This year, he's voting for Barack Obama.
Obama has a well documented history of bringing people with various points of view over to his table. That's right: he's a uniter, not a divider.
I'm a progressive. I think we should have free universal health care. I think we should outlaw guns, abolish the defense department and legalize drugs. I think teachers should be some of the highest paid professionals in the nation.
But it's going to take my uncle in Indiana a while to agree with me on most of those positions. And I'm okay with that. Because I can see that the best president for our nation isn't someone who takes polarizing positions and tries to ram them down people's throat. Here's how a Republican in the Illinois state senate described Obama:
“Obama is an extraordinary man,” he said. “His intellect, his charisma. He’s to the left of me on gun control, abortion. But he can really work with Republicans.”
I'm sick of divisive politics. We need to work together to get ourselves out of a whole lot of messes. And we need leadership that can do that.
Posted By JumpyPants | February 2, 2008 10:58 PM | DIGG ME!
Comments
I agree with you on most of this, except the part about abolishing the defense department. The world will always contain evil folks who wish to do us harm, and we have to accept the reality of that. Having said that, I will also say that the DoD should be just that - a dept of defense, not a dept of offense. Even Barack Obama acknowledges that we have enemies.
If we decide to unilaterally lay down our arms and that we ain't a-gonna study war no more, we will shortly not have a say in the matter. I'm against conscription; if enough folks won't defend a country by choice, maybe it doesn't deserve to be defended. But we have to be willing to stand between our home and the bad guys, or we won't have a home to call our own.
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at February 2, 2008 11:48 PM
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