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Now is the time for change but change demands that Obama be strong and stand for the principals that form the bedrock of change that this nation's people desire.  Sure there are many who are against change and the uncertainty that change means to the "old ways".  However, change was never brought about by being meek and merely begging and changing your principals.  The easy way is not the way for a paradigm shift.  The easy way is the way for people to become discouraged about the catalyst of change.

Theda Skocpal, from Talkingpointsmemo.com's Cafe, writes:

The last month has been excruciating for Obama supporters, watching him and his campaign squander so many hopes and resources on an utterly wimpy campaign. For me, the last straw was yesterday -- in the VFW speech when supposedly Obama was gettting tough against McCain's character assassination strategy -- to watch him speak like a soporific college professor, repeating McCain's charges at length, flattering McCain as honorable and patriotic, and then, finally, sort of begging McCain to take it back! Josh Marshall is totally right to call Obama out on this.

What are they thinking in Chicago? Why would they ever imagine that Americans will vote to make President a candidate who evades and begs...

Politics is not just about issues, it is a metaphorical test of strength. If a man will not get immediately -- if quietly -- angry and fight back when his patriotism is attacked, why should we trust him to defend the country? And if he won't punch back by explaining clearly why his approach to foreign policy is actually tougher and smarter, why McCain's is thoughtless and reckless, why would we think he is better to be Commander in Chief?

And on issues like oil drilling, why not recognize that McCain has adopted an ACTIVE metaphor that makes emotional sense to people? He is saying we should act to tap U.S. resources, and people are not really concerned about how many years it would take to tweak pump prices. They hear action and will and resolve -- and these are highly valued in a President! Obama can certainly get a hearing for other active steps, but he and the Dems should stop pretending that they can parry drilling with logic.

This is the reason(s) why there is a seeming lack of enthusiasm and frustration with Obama and the lack of forcefulness in representing true change that America needs from the current direction of endangering America through imperialist hubris and reckless endangerment of the human species through actively trying to increase pollutants to reach the worst case scenario of global warming.