“I\u2019d never been one who\u2019d choose to spend a Saturday at a political rally. The appeal of standing in an open gym or high school auditorium to hear lofty promises and platitudes never made much sense to me. Why, I wondered, were all these people here? Why would they layer on extra socks and stand for hours in the cold? I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they\u2019d followed since childhood. But politics? This was unlike anything I\u2019d experienced before.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

• Educate the citizenry. Our decisions about our leaders is much more important than what brand of floor wax we purchase. Why do commercialize politics as if we\u2019re selling an everyday product? Why do we go negative when it only sheds heat rather than light on the issues at hand?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  Are we doing anything to promote an educated citizenry, one in which voters can make up their minds about candidates and issues without being pandered by politicians?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  If we bring humanity to politics, we will honor the concerns of Michelle Obama and so many others. It\u2019s a new kind of reform, and now retired, Barack Obama can take the lead. But if he does so, he must do it in a way that keeps a health balance for him and his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  As much as people may want to say that Barack Obama was an unconventional politician, he was very traditional in his approach, just modern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n