Cohesive policy

I did the Obama match a donation and exchange a message thing. Am posting my message since it's my current concise reasoning on why to support Obama.

Obama's commitment to solving problems through system-level changes with a big-picture, comprehensive perspective is precisely what this country needs.

For example, corruption of our federal government by special interest groups is not our biggest problem, but it is a root problem, and Obama recognizes this which is why he emphasizes transparency of the political process.

Further, our country is in dire need of a level-headed, diplomatic leader, both on domestic issues (increasing transparency in the financial/credit sector, bringing costs down on health care, stimulating innovation in our use and production of energy) and foreign affairs (fixing the neocons' mess in the Middle East and allaying the anxiety the rest of the world feels about America's recent irrational foreign policy).

Obama's strategies on these issues are not only prudent separately, but are meant to work together. One example: American car companies are not able to heavily invest in energy efficient technology because they need to meet health care costs of their retiring workforce, whereas their European and Japanese competitors do not have this problem. Obama demonstrates his comprehensive thinking on this issue through his proposed "health care for hybrids" legislation.

Obama's comprehensive strategies offer a spectacular chance for the democratic party, whose policies recently have been an amalgamation of special interest solutions with little cohesion.

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