This was a comment that I posted in the discussion of my last post. I think it is worthy of a post of it's own.
Thank you all for your comments.
If you haven't been to the site listed in the first comment I recommend that you check it out. http://www.votehelp.org According to my results I am most in tune with Hillary which is no surprise to me as I have always been a centrist at heart. But regardless of my similar views with Hillary as far as policy goes, I feel that this election means so much more. What Hillary doesn't see is that there is a fundamental problem with the system itself.
If you've heard Obama speak then you cannot deny that the man is a great orator. He has a way with words and can turn a phrase in a way that even such great speakers as Lincoln, F.D.R., and J.F.K. would be jealous. And it strikes me now, in the face of recession and with so many other problems in this country, that sometimes it takes a great orator to inspire the masses to rise above the status quo and make real change. Lincoln freed the country from the tyranny of slavery and motivated an Army to fight to protect the Union. F.D.R. (who was both a great orator and policy maker) inspired a nation to overcome the Great Depression and led our country to victory over an evil and vile force. Churchill inspired England in much the same way. Kennedy put a man on the moon with his words alone.
What the country needs now, what the whole world needs now, is inspiration to pull itself out of what has become a downward spiral. Words are powerful things. Hopefully Obama can lead us to have the courage, the bravery, and the will to rise up and become something greater than ourselves.
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