He's gonna lead the way.

George Bush was a front man. For master manipulators. That made him a puppet. The manipulators took a shell of a man and made him president of the USA. Quite an achievement. Barack Obama, meanwhile, is the real thing. He's the manipulator. And I mean that in a positive sense. He's the real man. He's taken charge. And he doesn't allow others to manipulate him. Obama has a real brain. Real intelligence. He knows what he's doing. Bush never knew. Bush was manipulated primarily by the neo-conservatives behind him. The likes of Dick Cheney. The neo-conservatives found their ideal candidate in Bush. A guy too dumb and too shallow to know he's being manipulated. Maybe toward the end of his eight years in office, Bush just began to get an inkling that he had been manipulated all these years. But it was too late. He did refuse to pardon a guy that Cheney wanted pardoned. For once, Bush took a stand against his manipulators. But 99.99 percent of the time, the manipulators got their way with Bush. Give the neo-conservatives credit. They know how to manipulate. They're crafty. At making puppets. Well, Obama is an entirely different kind of manipulator. He's totally himself. Like I say, the real thing. Abe Lincoln was that kind of guy, too. He took charge. He swayed the nation on to the right course. By manipulating in adroit ways. Well, we need another Lincoln in these tough times. A president capable of manipulating public opinion in favor of what needs be done. We have some hard choices to make. We need radical changes in our economic, political and social systems. We need an overhaul of America. A new way of thinking. The Bushie manipulators are still mired in 18th century dogma. But Obama is a man of his times. He's living in the 21st century. And already, he has a grasp of what life will be like in the 22nd century. He's gonna lead the way to a brighter future. --Jim Broede