tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32606895.post3177190915774275563..comments2023-04-25T15:24:12.070+02:00Comments on Jamison Inc: Obama - Leaders and the Hope revolutionJamison Penderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10368794251920805092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32606895.post-6808030693428325172008-01-28T08:41:00.000+01:002008-01-28T08:41:00.000+01:00Another quote from this article on the apparent co...Another quote from this article on the apparent coming of Hillary (or Billary as I've heard it coined elsewhere) explains why I have been inspired to believe that Barack offers hope (no I haven't been brainwashed by his campaign). Hope for making some radical, positive new direction for US and the international politics where it is required - and that he does have not only sound policy positions, but also acumen, to support his incredibly well honed speaking capability.<BR/><BR/><I>"A former Clinton Administration official explained his decision to support Obama by urging me to read the two candidates’ autobiographies side by side. Obama’s “Dreams from My Father,” unlike Clinton’s “Living History,” he said, reveals a narrator who has struggled through difficult questions of identity and resolved them, and who, as a result, is comfortable not just with himself but with the complexity and contradiction of the world."</I><BR/><BR/>The well-known example is where he spoke out in 2002 before the iraq war to say he knew this would be a dumb war that would end up bloodily unleashing the unresolved civil tensions the exist in that country and that it would be a prolonged conflict that could not be solved by war. <BR/><BR/>This reflects the way he seems to think and position himself with such assurance (which is a prerequisite for such strong oratory). Understand the issue and in particular the objectives sought. Then figure out for himself why he believes a particular approach is correct, no matter what conventional wisdom says.bootsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08566348721676663512noreply@blogger.com