Barack Obama Offers Hope for America’s Progressive FutureRandy Shawbyline‚ Feb. 13‚ 2007I wrote last November that 2008 was Barack Obama’s historical moment to seek the presidency. Obama announced his candidacy last Saturday, immediately joining Hillary Clinton and John Edwards as the leading contenders for the nomination. While many are unhappy over the early start to the 2008 presidential race, and believe it unfair for three candidates to already be anointed “frontrunners,” political reality says that one of these three will almost certainly become the Democratic Party nominee and go on to win the presidency. Progressives are understandably torn between Edwards and Obama. To my mind, Obama has a much better chance of defeating Clinton, and of going on to become America’s first progressive president since Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945. |