Reply #183: Also Not Shown: Obama mentioned JFK as a similar change agent... [View All]

[va4wilderness]

He essentially was saying that the Reagan Era had played out, that a new way of thinking had already arrived and that it was time for politicians to catch up with the American people.... If you listen to the entire video. None of this is captured in this "sound bite" video. I agree: "All he stated was that Reagan dramatically changed the trajectory of the country."

I have not made up made up my mind and it probably won't matter, since we don't vote till Feb 12. But I certainly think that Obama is one of the more acceptable of the candidates. The (long) interview does not dissuade me at all. In fact, I think the interview shows that he will be able to get things done, that he will put average people ahead of corporations and the superwealthy, and that he will move forward in a positive direction on a variety of fronts (getting us out of Iraq, health care, climate change, etc.). Of course he is not the perfect candidate. None of them are. But I hate to see things taken out of context and boiled down into sound bites the way this was.