of Obama's vision.
I was like many hoping for Obama just to, frankly, push enough hot buttons that McBush would just explode in front of the camaras, but, after re-living the debate, reading every reaction I could possibly get my hands on and hearing what my friends and family had to say, I got it.
It is the sense of decency that we need to recover more than anything...It took me a couple of decades to recognize that Carter was a decent, simple good man and for some reason, that was such a tarnished thing to be for the longest time, so decent "leaders" became impossible to be and here we are, at the end of 8 years of the extreme lack of decency in any government the country ever had.
So, here comes Obama, actually practicing it and forcing us to recognize that this is what we have lost, class, decency, actual leadership qualities, and he shows it, not just says it, he lives it, acts it and feels it. He showed me how hypocritical I can be by wanting those qualities in a leader, but then judge that leader for not just humiliating his oponent...Yak. It shows that is harder to be a good, decent person than a hypocrite or crook.
Anyway, it is time to return value to decency and to real leadership...And in this case, unlike Carter's situation, it will not take us decades to recognize it when we see it, txs. all to Bush demonstrating very tangibly where total lack of it leads us.