Ode to Obama.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Barack Obama - Brief article

In addition to believing that Obama has the potential to be great, there are two other reasons I support him. Earlier this year I quoted a Democratic senator who told me that Obama was the only candidate who had even a remote chance of doing something about the growing hatred of the United States by Muslims. Andrew Sullivan makes this point eloquently in the December issue of the Atlantic.

My other reason for supporting Obama, as some of you will remember, comes from my own experience in the state legislature in West Virginia, where a substantial number of my colleagues shared a distaste for reform similar to that encountered by Obama in Illinois. So I have some idea of the skill and effort it took for him to get a tough ethics bill enacted. Even more...