OpEdNews - Diary: BARACK OBAMA THE BEST AND ONLY CANDIDATE FOR TODAY'S TIMES

January 17, 2008 at 09:30:25 Permalink
BARACK OBAMA THE BEST AND ONLY CANDIDATE FOR TODAY'S TIMES

Diary Entry by Angellight (about the author)

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Barack Obama in solving today's problems, is approaching it from another direction. There are many good intentions and ideas being held up in the Senate and Congress and cannot get passed because there is no working majority and because of party division. He realizes that one can offer all the ideas and solutions in the world, but without this working majority, it will come to nill and nothing will get accomplished.

He further understands that although we need a revolution in economic, health-care, globalization, education, and voting reforms, among others, very little will get accomplished (the same old results) unless we have a coming together -- a unity of red states, blue states and independents. And he also realizes that though we have had this vision to solve our problems for sometime, however, now is the time to materialize it, the urgency of now!

The people need things accomplished, not just brought to the Senate floor and argued over, only to languish there for years. They want real change. We cannot continue this same cycle of a do-nothing Congress. We cannot continue to offer bread to a hungry nation, only to snatch it back because of party bickering and division. Barack Obama is trying to establish a do-something Congress, instead of the do-nothing Congress.

It is ironic that an earlier Senator from Illinois, Lincoln, came to heal the nation when it was divided by slavery, and now we have another Senator from Illinois in Barack Obama who has come to heal a nation divided by a false sense of separatism and fear by offering a vision of hope and bringing people and this nation together -- as there is more that unites us than that which divides us. And a house divided cannot long stand, let alone get something done. Let us remember that it was a 33 year-old Thomas Jefferson who wrote, When the people fear the government you have tyranny. When the government fears the people you have liberty."

Barack Obama, in establishing a "People's Coalition" will harness the power of the people to capitulate our government officials to work for them and not the special interest groups, wealthy and corporations.

After all, a true leader has to be a leader of all the people, not just some. We have great ideas and no will. That will, however, will come from the people united in a common cause.

A concerned citizen who works in the legal field.

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