Ahh the power of rhetoric. Should we vote for a person because of their strength in speech. Actually yes we should, at least in part. A large element of any president’s job is persuasion - such is true of any leadership. This has been one of the biggest failings of Bush’s leadership style in my estimation. My question is…which speaker is telling the truth? The answer is that both are telling the truth. It’s just that Obama’s truth sounds so much better. Both of these candidates could learn something from Churchhill. When he took over as PM in Britain he promised blood, sweat, sacrifce over a long period of time, and finally victory. Any “yes we can” message that doesn’t leave room for sacrifice, for evil, and frankly for reality is nothing more than an empty promise. Hollywood types are attracted to such messages like moths to a flame.

You’d have to be a moron not to recognize that the guy is a gifted speaker (at least when it is prepared for him, his debates show he isn’t quite as good on his feet, but I suppose that’s true for all of us). But good rhetoric doesn’t change the fact that we still don’t know much of anything about his policies, and from what we do know he is basically a socialist.