Why I'm For Senator Barack Obama

I support Senator Barack Obama for the nomination for POTUS and here's why:

A CNN spinmeister asked after the last debate whether Hillary Clinton was running for the "Greatest Health and Human Services Director" in history or for President.

We need a paradigm change in national politics or the Democrats face another polarized electorate and election. It's time to say goodbye to the politics of the Sixties and the sad songs sung to support them.

We also have to let go of our hatred of crossover appeal and nominate someone who can draw to our side independents plus old line Republican voters, i.e., those who are fiscally conservative, albeit fraternalistically inclined to reinvigorate the economy to support the flailing working and middle economic classes, and socially progressive as well.

As I've said here before, I believe Barack Obama has that appeal and is the human embodiment of "throw the bums out". He has stated a desire and intention of unseating the power brokers, lobbyists, beaurocrats and beaurocracies that have hamstrung and stifled change in our government.

If you recall, Hillary was tongue tied in one debate at the suggestion that she would employ no lobbyists in the WH - remember that her brother is one!

If you don't believe the phenomenon of entrenchment exists and will ossify to solidification with 36 years of Clinton-Bush, look at the ineffectiveness of the Democratic Congress that was elected with such high hopes for a new direction, hopes now thoroughly dashed.

And, Obama has the strongest credentials to withstand "flip-flopper" charges and GOP talking points on national security and the War in Iraq.

Moreover, with Senator Jim Webb of Virginia, a Viet Nam vet and former Secretary of the Navy whose son has served in Iraq, as Obama's running mate in November, we'll have a domestic and national security policy team that can get us over the hump in electoral college votes and avoid another four years of wondering whether yet a third straight election had been stolen from us.

Now for the intangibles that have hamstrung Hillary along the way. In the last debate, I'm wondering how many human subconsciouses registered that Barack Obama is pragmatic, has a great sense of humor, is relaxed, and most important of all, exhibited wonderful warmth and the ability to shut up and listen as others talked.

And here, I rest my case for Barack.

Cleo

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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." From "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", W.B. Yeats