While I've watched Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) move up and down in these way-too-early Presidential Primary polls, I tend to forget his very admirable roots as a community activist, as well as how the Illinois electorate overwhelmingly voted him into the U.S. Senate thanks, one imagines, to his pleasing performance in state government.
These two new television spots, courtesy of TPMCafe, are hitting the airwaves in Iowa, home of the very first Primary contest (a caucus). They remind me why Obama is so attractive as a candidate in the first place.
The first features an Illinois Republican State Legislator speaking highly of Sen. Obama's ability to work fairly across the aisle. Nice work.
The other has different community activists as well as renown Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe praising Obama's selflessness when he could very easily have gone to Wall Street and made zillions...instead of helping regular folks who pay much, much worse.
I'm more than intrigued with Barack Obama as a Presidential candidate, although I have concerns about his closeness with Joe Lieberdouche and some of scattered neocon types. However, I am, like many people, enamored of him as a Vice Presidential candidate, say with Former Senator Edwards or, be still my heart, Former Vice President Gore.
Who knows, maybe it'll be a woman at the top of the ticket and Barack filling it out. And should they win, would we not, indeed, have earned the title, Land of the Free?
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