On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:58:21 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

To paraphrase some lyrics from the Grateful Dead, "sometimes
you see the truth in the strangest places". Charles Krauthammer
and I rarely agree on anything political but I think he nailed
it today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100203043.html




http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/...-missouri.html

This story from St. Louis is what I see happening on a personal level
in Wausau. My kid is an Obama intern. He is working his azz off and
the experience is changing him for the better.

I find myself struggling with this concept of having a leader who I
really, really respect. I came to respect Carter after he left office
but in my entire adult life, with the exception of Robert Kennedy's
short lived run in '68 (and I was only 15 then), I've always seen the
person running who I ended up voting for as being a compromise. Not
this time. Geez, I'm too old for this. I was a real "Don't follow
leaders... watch your parking meters" kind of guy. Am I today. No. Do
I walk in lock step with Hopey. No. Do I trust his judgment to try to
find reasoned solutions to problems. "You betchya", to quote a certain
Alaskan.

A constitutional scholar as President of the United States. Amazing.
Just amazing.

g.c.