People are looking for a leader to bring us out of the hell that has been the Bush years. But, politicians don't lead, they follow. We must make them do the right thing.
The Congressional Democrats did not lead on their own. Most of them cowered, until they knew public opinion had firmly turned against the current path, before speaking out. With a few exceptions, such as Feingold,they wouldn't do anything until we organized, screamed, ran our own winning campaigns and made them listen.
I look at the crop of Presidential candidates and don't expect any of them to lead us.
Given that, some politicans are more prone to listen to us than others. With Bush, there is no amount of force that would budge him. With Kucinich all we would need to do is ask (but, no amount of effort could get him into the White House). For the other candidates my question is not who has the best positions on all of the issues, but, if they were in the White House how hard would we have to push them to do the right thing?
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