Thursday, March 01, 2007
Politicians - Barack Obama - "present"???
Handling hard choices?
Presidential material? Not!...
Presidential material? Not!...
Nathan Gonzales writes at RealClearPolitics.com:
"Finally and officially, Barack Obama is running for president. His symbolic announcement, in the Land of Lincoln, called for a new era in politics. Obama downplayed his thin federal experience while championing his record on the state and local level, and he talked about the need to change Washington, set priorities, and 'make hard choices.'
'What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions,' Obama said in his announcement speech. But a closer look at the presidential candidate's record in the Illinois Legislature reveals something seemingly contradictory: a number of occasions when Obama avoided making hard choices."
