The "Post One Positive Thing About Barack Obama As Our Nominee" Thread!!!

Okay! Lets all have a 100% positive thread and each chime in by posting one positive thing each about Barack Obama!


(I know there's thousands of positive things about Obama. But try to post only one so other posters after you will have more to pick from!)


Lets see how long a list we can make!


I'll start it! Here's mine:
"Obama seems absolutely, positively, 100% incapable of taking a bad picture! Seriously have you seen him look less than his best even once? Every photograph he is in looks perfect!"



Okay, now you go!


:)

I think the world is watching America VERY closely. This is our test to see if we will actually do the right thing for once by electing Obama!

the English language without butchering it.

and is a unifier.

Benny Hill.

Intellectually and every other way.

He has the best ideas in a long while. He is also very physically attractive.

:hi:

The White House will be totally smoke free when Pickles is packed up and shown the door and the Obama family moves in. It will be a treat seeing children in the White House again.

I KICKED the butts after forty years!

ever possible.

That is a rare but valuable quality in a genuine leader.
It speaks of a person who has a healthy sense of self, and genuine desire to lead rather than 'rule'.

IMO

peace~

I can think of about a hundred positive things, and if I really thought about it probably more.

I know that's superficial.:P I have hope that he will be a good leader for our country, especially given the horseshit we've endured over the last seven years. But I'm also glad to have a candidate who isn't butt-ugly, unlike those poor, poor saps on the other side.

And I can post this here on DU because we know what it means.

:woohoo:

:silly:

But actually he IS cool, calm and collected when under enormous pressure.

and he is smart.

with the other world leaders. I want HIS face to be America's Face to the World. I want HIS face speaking to all the other nations with which we share this planet. I want the rest of the world to develop the mindset that HE is America, too. A radical departure from the same Anglo middle aged/elderly male faces that have paraded in and out of the White House over the years. One basic type. With the same or similar backgrounds, many with pedigrees. But nonetheless, multiple versions of the same basic middle-aged-or-old white guy. One Anglo middle-to-old man after another. Well, as Obama himself would say, "not this time."

I think, human nature being what it is, and humans' tendency to learn and absorb concepts visually. The majority of humanity is visually-oriented and that's how information is processed and how learning occurs. So we, citizens of Planet Earth, start seeing the America Guy as a tall, thin, middle-aged African-American guy instead of ALWAYS some middle-to-old-age white guy. It couldn't be more different from what we've been sending out there every four years for all of our history (unless it was a female - of any color). It would be emblematic and metaphoric of change. Change embodied. Change you can see just by looking.

What you see influences what you think. You start seeing something different, it influences and starts modifying your mindset, and you start responding accordingly - differently than you had before. It's an open invitation for all of the world to shift gears, try something different, close a chapter and open up a different one, or set the old book down and pick up a new one. It is FIRMLY established and agreed to by some 84 percent of Americans responding to a major recent poll that America has lurched off onto the wrong track. Eighty-Four Percent! That's an historic high! Never in my life... Given that, doing the same things that led us here, following the same priorities that led us here, with more of the same people from the same political mindset that led us here, is just one of the worst ideas ever, assuming that you, too, believe America's gone horribly wrong in every way imaginable, and you do NOT want to perpetuate the same abysmal results and human conditions that we have now - um - "enjoyed" - for the past several years (under bush/republi-CON leadership/stewardship).

So I'd like to harness that human-nature tendency and make it work for us - and for the Obama campaign, and ultimately, for our entire battered, humiliated, terrorized, brutalized, defiled, lied to, and jerked-around country. Yeah. It's a mind game. But it's a beneficial game - to introduce a very obvious-looking change agent in a time when change is longed for. And you REINFORCE the idea that WE are the change agents, that it WON'T be business-as-usual, what's been going on will NOT be continued, the same missteps WON'T be taken some more. The same philosophy of "leadership" and "stewardship" will NOT continue. We will be turning the page. Nothing UNDERSCORES that, subliminally, or telegraphs that outward as effectively as The Man of Change himself.

The world will look at who's representing us now and have to adjust its opinions and reactions of us as a result. We DESPERATELY NEED to advertise that We're Under NEW Management" and to MEAN IT! The way we prove to the world that we do indeed mean it is to show what kind of change we've already made. This president won't think, or do, act or react, the same as all the other same-ol's. And seems to me the world is rather desperately waiting and hoping - and even praying - to see that. In Catholic school, we learned about Outward Signs. Well, there he stands.

I've got a lot of other positive things Obama, but that's the one that comes to mind first, more often than not.

Would you consider posting that as it's own thread? Because it was amazing! Not even worthy of being a mere response in this one. I'd rec it if I could.

:hi:

I went ahead and took you up on your suggestion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6395162

I really think everyone should read it. It states a clear case of why we NEED Obama to win this one!

Plus a loving husband and father.

:) :)

bonus: He can speak in complete sentences

and the sad part is, until 2000 I would have assumed speaking in complete sentences was a REQUIREMENT to be president of the United States. Shows what I know :shrug:

:P

that THEY MATTER, and ANYONE truly can be president in this country.

and on our side

he has arrived by chance to this moment in time where history and fate converge to end the bush-cheney-rove era , and has the qualities to be one of the greatest presidents...IMHO

and Al Gore wove it into his endorsement Green speech in Detroit..citing both of their prescient speeches!

by honestly telling him when he errs.

He's one of the few who'll take the accountability seriously.

I was resigned to believing politicians came in one flavor; turd. Thanks Obama for breathing some life back into our dying democracy.

Really, that's about all I can think of.

of Jefferson's quite talented pen (quill, whatever): I predict a President Obama will usher in an age of racial & class reconciliation that will be talked about by generations of Americans hence.

It's a great time to be a Democrat, and an even better time to be an American, IMHO. :thumbsup:

...and he's not even in the White House yet. :)

I could list one thousand things, but I like this family. Our first family.

:patriot: He will proide coat tails fo those of us in red disticts.

"Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!"

:)

He really tries to live the things he talks about.

the book - 'nuf said