All i hear is "four more years of Bush," but I do not see any evidence of Obama's so-called leadership in Washington. In the three years as a Senator, has he shaken things up in Washington. He said he "reached over the aisles." So since 2006, after Democrats taken control of Congress, what leadership has he brought in terms of passing major legislation.
THe job of the president is to pass legislation? I thought that was the job of the legislative branch.
If you look at how everyone is
following Obama, not just the media but also Bush (on the Iraq pullout) and McCain (picking a female rock-star type as his running mate) and there are other recent examples, it's pretty obvious that he is
being followed, i.e. he is a leader. He's even leading the other side!
Seriously, and much more importantly is that he surrounds himself with capable people. Look at the discipline and effectiveness of his campaign staff. He understand the importance of good staff. Bush set himself up for failure by selecting only yes-men for his cabinet, and that is despite having had executive experience. I trust Obama to surround himself with quality cabinet members, not yes men. That's his track record. You've seen it work very effectively during this campaign.
McCain's campaign is somewhere in the middle. I admire that he did as well as he did when he had no funds, and I like small town hall meetings. On the other hand there is regularly bickering, snide remarks, and negativity in his campaign, and McCain reportedly blows up and gets grumpy. His staff seems OK, but not great. The VP pick seems like a huge mis-reading to me. It actually reminds me of the Terry Schiavo thing where Bush/Frist thought the conservative base would love it if the government stepped in to keep people on life support, and the base got very upset very quickly, that the government would try to step in their personal lives like that. Total misreading. I could be wrong, but I feel like this is a Terry Schiavo type guess at what the electorate wants, and way off base.
