Is there still a chance for the chewy political center?

A person has to wonder, given the latest "benefits" of the carefully orchestrated group meetings surrounding senator Clinton's campaign, if the nation is slowly warming to the chewy center of the democratic party. We can't continue down the road of Rove/Bush, carefully orchestrating the crowds to serve our own agenda. This is a failed and flawed political policy, and one that deserves a sound trouncing-whether the party is Democrat or Republican.

So the polls show that Democrats are a lot more disgusted and troubled by the use of these tactics by Clinton than I'm sure she would have hoped. A solid lead in the polls is now tightening and 2nd place challenger Barack Obama seems poised to gain much of the lost percentiles. And why not? Barack may not have the experience of Clinton in some respects, but he exudes a quality that has been missing far too long in this country and in the political scene, a mannerism of calm, a pragmatic application of warmth and even handedness. Would we, should we, even consider replacing the corporate behemoth of Bush with yet another corporate behemoth in Clinton? I say no.

You can be tempted to deal it to the Republicans as they have dealt unto us for the last 7 years, but what does that gain the country? Not one thing. That is what we are buying into if we allow our hearts and votes to be lured into the Clinton camp. We can go for revenge, and likely lose the battle altogether; Or we can go for the center, where 90% of America is anyway, and try to bring this country back together through inclusion. I believe that this is the type of president that Barack Obama would be, and I believe that his soft-spoken yet firm nature will allow him to win against any of the Republican front-runners.

Unfortunately, the Republican hopefuls are shaping up to be more of the same-all cut out of some corporate or moral institutional model, that would give us another four years, minimum, of separatist hell in our nation. We can't afford more of the same. There is too much at stake.

Americans have an opportunity to end the extremist views of one party and replace them with either more extremism on the opposite poll, or moderation that heals. My vote is to heal the nation and bring Republicans and Democrats back together as they were meant to be. There is a soft and chewy political center, and he is Barack Obama.