Can Obama Do The Job?

Iowa Republicans Still Waiting For Superman (Or Woman) : It's All Politics : NPR: "Roberts: I want both. I do want someone who's exciting, to get the party fired up. And also somebody who can do the job. I don't know that we have that."

Obama may be the first Peircean president

A Pearcean is a person who thinks in threes instead of twos

A person for whom binary is a tool not a philosphy

A person who cleaves to C. S. Peirce's triadic pragmaticism

Most simply Obama reacts to signs he sees rising
Not by making an immediate judgment but by considering its elements

(Because of this he leaves room for a third element)

First the sign and second the blunt reality that emerges when what was vague and indistinct is represented

That representation is the second
Things might end there if Obama stopped there as many do

But he goes on to propound an experimental a conclusion
A hypothesis based on such factors as a consideration for the ongoingness of life - continuity

And the good of the community

He propounds a philosophy of moving forward which issues in a concrete reality experiential and real

We call it the third

Thirdness

Different from thinking in twos like, ah, W, Palin and others one could name

When the third does not pan out the process of dealing with the sign (the general) begins again
Until a satisfactory third works takes on life becomes history

This is the redemptive reason why Obama has a better chance than a binary thinker
A we-they, intolerant and anti-democratic  thinker
He can eventually get done much of what he puts his triadic thinking mind to 

When you wonder Obama C. S. Peirce

Obama does whether he knows it or not

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