In tonight's closing of the presidential debate Senator Obama said three words that we very infrequently hear from our leaders; "Sacrifice Service & Responsibility".
If anyone has had any reservations about Senator Obama's "presidential" characteristics, his call for America to take some responsibility for itself should seriously put those reservations to rest.
It is rare to ever hear from a politician that we can't have our cake and eat it too. It's almost unheard of to hear those sentiments in the throes of a financial crisis and a national election only weeks away!
Obama made a speech in Toledo this past Monday in which he called for a new ``ethic of responsibility''. This was aimed squarely at the causes of our current economic crisis in which ``everyone was living beyond their means, from Wall Street to Washington to even some on Main Street.''Our current financial crisis is a direct result of almost every component of our economy throwing responsibility to the wind, consequences be dammed.
If "Presidential" is synonymous with "leadership", and "leadership" is synonymous with telling people what they need to hear as opposed to what they want to hear, then Senator Obama has acted in a more presidential manner than many of our politicians of the past 30 years!!
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