Goldie Locks

When you don't have anything to run on, not the economy, not the environment, not taxes you can always count on the Republicans to turn to scaring the American people. "The next president will be tested" says former Democratic loser turned independent Senator Joe Lieberman. John McCain is now saying to anyone that will listen, that Barack Obama can't be trusted because he changed his mind on campaign financing in the national election. We have documented extensively McCain's 3 pages of flip flops. He is not the John McCain of the 2000 campaign.


From what I have observed and read of Sen. Obama's positions from his speech on race to his fathers day speech on fatherhood and the black community have been common sense or centrist positions. He has called for personal responsibility and understanding of the other persons views. As possibly the first black president in United States history, he has no other choice than to play the middle. He can't be too far left or too far right. Like the children's story of "Goldie Locks", his positions have to be just right. Jessie Jackson's campaign in 1984 registered a large number of new voters and he won a couple of states in the primaries but his leftest views on many issues gave him no shot at the democratic nomination.

Barack Obama's upbringing in a multi cultural society also contributes to his centrist positions. Growing up black, white and Indonesian gives him a unique vision to see things from a lot of different perspectives. He is a politician running on the platform of change and compromise to get things done in Washington. His politics run to the center because that is where the majority of people in America are. Its hard to compromise with a zealot on either side of the isle.

If you want to be president of all the people by representing half of the people.