Join the Conversation
Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more
September 30, 2010
Over on the Huffington Post, Rabbi Michael Lerner -- an Obama supporter in 2008 -- says "Obama (and Biden) Have No Clue About What's Bothering Their Political Base."
But what a president can do is to challenge the ideas of the powerful and rally those who have become aware that the current system is not only destructive to the future of the planet, but also to the possibility of constructing lives that have a sense of higher meaning than accumulating money and things, or building families and friendships that are about love and not dominated by the self-interest "what's in it for me" consciousness of the capitalist marketplace."
