What's so "special" about Barrack Obama?

IWillLiveForeve

Uncle Leo wrote:

What does it smell like?

It smells like it would be dangerous in the wrong hands.

Mutiny! he cried

Hope&Anger wrote:

He *has* taken positions -- lots of them. Even some that aren't so popular in downstate Illinois.

He is pro-choice, which has led Christian social conservatives to urge Rick Warren to disinvite him from speaking at one of those mega-churches.

He supports energy independence -- he is, after all, a Senator from Ethanol.

He was anti-war back before it was fashionable. He was the only Democrat in the primary who was explicitly against the war, who said it was a mistake in 2004. I'm pretty sure that's what got him the primary. (He won the election because Keyes was a carpet-bagging nutjob, completely out of step with the Republicans in Illinois.)

He supports programs to alleviate poverty, although he isn't the kind of guy who's going to throw money at problems. He'd prefer to put people to work, improve public education, that sort of thing. To pay for it, he will probably do away with the tax cuts that benefitted the people in the top 1% of income earners.

And he's entirely too comfortable mixing religion and politics for my taste. But it's what sells these days . . .

And he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and a community activist before he went into politics -- unlike some spoiled mama's boys who made a career out of losing the money of his daddy's friends before driving sound baseball teams into the ground. And Obama had a reputation as a state legislator as someone who could reach across the aisle to Republicans and broker deals. I know that the fine art of compromise is unpopular to all the chest-thumping he-men who prefer their politicians to stick to "principle," but he got stuff done, because as someone has already noted, Republicans like him.

So what else do you need to know?

how do you feel now that all the obama supporters say only an idiot thought obama was anti-war?