Obama v. Portland

How exhilarating to have a President who seeks out different opinions from his own, who comes often to the electorate to explain himself, who exudes honesty. How completely and sadly different is this approach from politics here in Portland, where subterfuge rules, where knee-jerk ideologues give knee-jerk litanies, where no one explains anything to the electorate short of self-serving soundbites, where political cowardice rules City Hall. Portland's an embarrassment to the country and the new ideals being presented by Obama.