If Obama were to ask me...

Today's Washington Post announces that:

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D), one of the Democratic Party's brightest young stars, jumped into the 2008 race for the White House today, establishing a presidential exploratory committee that is expected to lead immediately into a full-blown campaign for president.

In typical Obama style, we hear prose that sounds good:

"Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions," Obama wrote in an e-mail message to supporters released this morning. "And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans."

If he were to ask me, I'd tell him many of us are tired of candidates that talk the talk but never produce results, that we are tired of candidates that pretend to care in public yet do not appear to be genuine in their responses to those with concerns. We have a large number of politicians who run from ego rather than from compassion, who test the waters of public opinion rather than to have the courage to make hard decisions. If that is the type of candidate he's going to be? Then don't add to the money machine that is in part created by candidates, change does need to happen but it needs to happen from within...

But then he won't ask me, he doesn't even acknowledge or return emails on issues that were important and still left unanswered questions as to his ethical views.