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In an era of political polarization not seen since the first half of the 1860s, it is commonplace for our (hopeful) elected officials to resort to devisive campaign tactics in order to continue their careers. When the famous framers of our great constitution were engrossed in the constitutional convention they did not plan on the manifestation of career politicians and political parties. They envisioned local leaders standing up to represent their people in government for a few years, not law school graduates dedicating their lives to finding more votes. Thus they did not foresee the representative democracy they worked so hard to create degenerating into a left vs. right shouting match with the words "liberal" and "Conservative" being turned into vulgarity.

Barack Obama has the right idea. We need to change our politics. It seems to many that nothing really gets done in government anymore because the biggest issues are abortion, gay marriage, and a four year old war. Real issues that affect more Americans are being swept to the wayside as candidates increasingly pander to their base. Our president is a fine example of this behavior, as one will notice that that after all of his compassionate conservative pro-life gay bashing anti-cloning campaign rhetoric, once elected he made no moves to do anything about any of these topics (save for sending medical science twenty years backwards with his stem cell research veto). Is this what America voted for?
Hillary Clinton, whose only clear qualifications seem to be a few years of obvious warm-up time in the senate and happening to be married to a former president, also exemplifies a breakdown in what our leaders should be. Demanding that Barack Obama return campaign funds donated by David Geffen after Mr. Geffen exercised his rights to free speech in an unflattering review of the Mrs. Clinton is downright childish. And the mud slinging has barely even started.
America needs a leader, not a divider like President Bush and Senator Clinton. Barack Obama possesses the thoughtfulness and character needed to take our country into the future. He truly believes in this country and its citizens and is not merely a left wing ideologue out get himself elected while alienating the other half of the country. Barack Obama, simply put, is a leader.

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