Can Obama go beyond the Donkey and Elephant zoo-metaphor we use for typical politics?

Question

THE BELLY AND THE OTHER MEMBERS
Aesop's Fables (620 - 560 BC) It is said that in former times the various members of the human body did not work together as amicably as they do now. On one occasion the members began to be critical of the belly for spending an idle life of luxury while they had spent all their time laboring for its support and ministering to its wants and pleasures. The members went so far as to decide to cut off the belly's supplies for the future. The hands were no longer to carry food to the mouth, nor the mouth to receive, nor the teeth to chew it. But, lo and behold, it was only a short time after they had agreed upon this course of starving the belly into subjection when they all began, one by one, to fail and flop and the whole body to waste away. In the end the members became convinced that the belly also, cumbersome and useless as it seemed, had an important function of its own, and that they could no more exist without it than it could do without them.

Answer 1

To be honest I think the Donkey/Elephant thing is insulting to those species in particular. After all politicans we discovered to be the lowest form of life on earth in 1899.

Answer 2

I think he can. He's got a whole campaign going about bringing politics back to the people, getting them involved, and making their voices matter. After all, the president should be a representative of his people, and how can he do that if he doesn't listen to them? Obama is a strong willed, incredibly intelligent man, and I think he can make it work. His supporters range from old republicans to kids who are hardly old enough to vote - because he knows what the people want, and he can deliver it.

Answer 3

"I think he can. He's got a whole campaign going about bringing politics back to the people, getting them involved, and making their voices matter. After all, the president should be a representative of his people, and how can he do that if he doesn't listen to them? Obama is a strong willed, incredibly intelligent man, and I think he can make it work. His supporters range from old republicans to kids who are hardly old enough to vote - because he knows what the people want, and he can deliver it."

lol, how original. what a pioneer. what a firebrand. what a...democracy is a smokescreen; it is tyranny.