"Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I've been with Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do."This expresses one of my concerns about Senator Obama. Mind you, it is very unlikely I would vote Democrat this campaign year because the Democrat party tends mostly to support public policies that are exactly opposite the policies I support. But, I don't think it is a good idea to support a candidate who runs on "trust me," especially when that candidate is also running on "change, change, change."
It seems to me the campaign of Senator Obama is more charade, or even smoke and mirrors if you will, than is the campaign of most politicians.
I don't want to be asked to support "trust me." I want to be asked to "support me because you agree with the policies I stand for." In my case, I don't trust the Senator, and when I do start to hear or read specific policies he will stand for (in contrast to the platitudes he stands for), the Senator begins to sound like virtually every other Democrat politicians who stands for policies I think would seek change that would be in exactly the wrong direction for our continued success and prosperity.
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