Change in '08

“Obama is, in fact, committed to respecting the opinions of cultures of others even when religious beliefs aren’t involved. ‘There are universal values that I will fight for,’ he says. ‘I think there may have been a time and a place in which genital mutilation was culturally appropriate, but those times are over. I’m not somebody who believes that our foreign policy has to be driven by moral relativism. What I do believe is that we have to apply judgment and a sense of proportion to how change happens in any society–to promote our ideals and our values with some sense of humility.’”

The New Yorker
May 7, 2007
Profiles – The Conciliator
Where is Barack Obama coming from?
By Larissa MacFarquhar

Reading this is what drew my support for Obama.

Reading the article below on CNN leads my practical side to think that my joke of “Team Opression ‘08” might be the strongest bet Democrats have at the White House in 2008.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/26/obama.nice/index.html














This just might be the future vision of leadership for this country.