Barack Obama Following the Foot Steps of Theodore Roosevelt Who was a Reformer

When Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks about change, those in Washington are more cynical about him, but those in the heartland of America shares his reform agendas.

Today, the Illinois native politician spoke about his 21^st century reform agenda to a crowd of over 600 people in a school named after the last century reformer Theodore Roosevelt.

Warmly welcomed, Sen. Obama told the cheering crowd that in the past 6 years; more than $1.1 billion of tax dollars has been issued to more than 172,000 dead people as farm subsidies.

He said "That's a problem when your tax dollars are going to dead people. That's not crazy, it is wrong," said Mr. Obama who through his political and private endeavors has demonstrated a strong level of integrity and transparency.

He reminded the crowd that over 100 years ago, Roosevelt took the changes against all odds and helped eased the powerful monopolistic forces that were in Washington by given "the American people a shot at the American dream," Obama pointed out.

Among all the presidential candidates from both parties, Mr. Obama is the only candidate that is not receiving any campaign contributions from lobbyist or political action committees that often set the agendas in the twilight of the night.

And for the Washington crowd, the danger of not getting the free meals, which they are used to in the past 16 years, manifested in their creation of a mounted front to tag Mr. Obama as inexperience and hope monger. The business-as-usual crowd in Washington is constantly strategizing on how to bring his campaign down, but based on what I saw today in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, their strategies may fall on deaf ears.

Mr. Obama also reminded voters in Iowa that when he was a state legislator in Illinois, people were cynical about his resolve to end the massive corruption that was destroying the integrity of the state. In the end, he was able to work out a bipartisan consensus to end the historical waste in the state.