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Leadership. In action, before our eyes. Can all but the most churlish not visualize the difference President Obama will make come next year?

This is what leadership looks like. This is the kind of action that FDR took to lead us out of the Great Depression.

Not by Obama, would be surprised by Bush -

Oops.

Would be better if Barack himself showed up , oh with a few hundred of his best friends.

There's visual, Barack filling sandbags. Not a 10 minute photo op. Just have him volunteer, with a small army. Make the press work to if they insist on coming.

That said if you life anywhere near there, Heck if you live in Chicago, please help.

This is why I am a strong supporter of Obama! When it was stated how disappointed the females are that a female candidate is not in the running for President with the Democratic party, not true for all of us. I believe that family stucture is very important in the American families. A man able to take control in a positive way, to make things happen. I am not saying that women cannot lead, I am sitting here now continuing my fight to hold my family together because I have to and have had to do it in the past. I watched the strong women in my coming up and saw them as the glue. But, they taught the males to be men. I see Obama as a leader, a mentor to the young men we are loosing around the country that have lost the values of being a leader and a real man. Making decisions, providing for their family, securing their family. I support a man that brings that to the table. I want and desire the American family to get this back. The democracy and diversity that we try to pass to others to achieve and overcome, lets practice that at home first. Come together as one. This country now does not belong to one group of people, to all Americans regardless of what color. We need to come together as one to protect the babies, to help the elders to survive, to make it where we all can maintain.It will take all of us as a family to work with this great man and try to put our country back on track!We cannot as a country continue like this. We will have to meet up and hold on to each other and rise up!Yes, we can make a change!

Thanks for posting this. I agree with others here that Senator Obama has tapped into a vast, rich vein of the American psyche that wants to do good for others and for ourselves. We don't want some super hero to swoop in to save us. We don't need saving. What we need is a little organizing and a little direction to funnel this energy where it is needed. Right now, this is the flooded areas in the Midwest. I think that this is the core insight that has made him and the whole movement such a success.

I am glad to see that the Obama campaign has used their considerable resources to help those in trouble, but I am not surprised. He embodies the type of leader that this country needs--one who believes in the good of the people and who appeals to our better angels; one who calls to us to be the best that we can be, perhaps even better than we thought we could be. I have not been this enthused about a national leader ever in my lifetime--precisely because he makes me believe that out of many, we can become one. And by becoming one, we can accomplish anything.

Yes. We. Can.

After too many years -- what? maybe 30? -- of feeling crushed by the cynical meanness of the right, it's nice to see a little respect, empathy, and civic pride return.