COLUMN: 07-02-2008

It's a great day in the political scene in America as we watch the general election presidential campaign unfold with two candidates who were the outsiders at the beginning of the process. Both Senator Obama and Senator McCain are reaching out to the moderate conservative middle of America as they work towards the presidency. As long as neither one of them reaches too deeply into the extreme politics of the base of their parties during the campaign, then neither of them will be beholden to anyone but the American people at the end of the election and we can only hope that this will translate into an administration where the corrupt party insiders are kept out for the first time in many years. Perhaps this is too hopeful of a vision for the future, but one can at least take pride in the fact that the American people rejected the Washington insider favorites who were most corrupted by lobbyist money during the primary election process.