Sliding toward Obama
Kucinich has withdrawn.
Progressive artsy friends remind me Obama is better on arts.
Right or wrong, it seems easier to imagine more independents or conservative democrats choosing McCain over Clinton than over Obama. Is it because misogyny is stronger than racism? Would people who don’t want to vote for Obama in the general election stay home rather than vote for McCain and feel like a racist, but have no problem voting for McCain as a vote against Clinton?
Neither Obama or Clinton support single payer universal health care and I worry that Clinton will have a harder time getting anything done, given the past and her higher level of insurance and medical industry contributions.
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on February 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Welcome aboard! Let’s get past identity politics here. I’m proud of Hillary Clinton (I voted for her in 2000) and I’m proud of Barack Obama. I’m supporting Obama because in our form of democracy, the only way to create real change is for people to rise up and demand it, loudly and continuously, holding their representatives accountable and getting directly involved — not just in elections but in the whole damn thing. Obama has shown his ability to move people and get them to stand up and believe that change is possible again.
There are no guarantees whenever you’re up against entrenched power, but chipping away at the margins seems to me the wrong way to go about change. We need to attack full-scale.
on February 4th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
oh, btw, as far as Berkman issues are concerned (!), Obama is the only candidate to be on the record in support of Net Neutrality. FWIW.