McCain speaking at the Truman Library and Museum in Missouri: “Crises often have a way of revealing our better selves — of showing what we are made of, and how much we can achieve when we are put to the test. This is true as well of the grave challenges we face in Washington. Yet it should not require extreme emergencies — when the future of our entire economy is on the line — to bring out the best in us, or to bring us together in service to the common good,” McCain said.
Obama telling an audience in Wisconsin: “I realize Americans are cynical and fed up with politics. I understand that you’re disappointed and even angry with your leaders. You have every right to be. But despite all of this, I ask you to believe — believe in this country and your ability to change it,” Obama said.
What do you say?
Obama walks his talk. He has been a community activist, and that’s a *good* thing, whatever Sarah Palin may have implied in her speech. I think it was out of his activism that he decided to go into politics. He recognizes that the system isn’t perfect, but still he has such a positive view of the U.S. system. This really comes out in his “Audacity of Hope.” He’s smart, he has the mediating and diplomatic skills to not only mend this country, but get beyond the divisive politicking.
McCain on the other hand merely seems to echo Obama’s messages. Who said change first?
He has been on the Hill for over two decades, yet it is now that he is saying we shouldn’t wait for emergencies to fix things? He is part of the problem, he hasn’t been about reform in the past, yet now he tries to make that his message?
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