Political Endorsement

[bquinlan]

I don't talk about it much here, but over the last half-dozen years I have become a lot more politically active. I write three or four emails to various officials most weeks and I make a few phone calls too

Comments

[archerrat]

Nobody likes an informed voter, d00d. Get with the program.

[raykel]

I like Obama, too. I get a little frustrated when people say he "doesn't stand for anything." Uh... he has a voting record. I don't need him to have been in politics 100 years (hell, at this point I think we NEED a newbie) to be able to see what he stand for by reading his voting record, and I like much of what I see when I read his.

Of course, I'm too centrist to agree with anyone completely on either side of the aisle, but for all the reasons you wrote, the places where I do agree with him are the most important to me.

[teresa_c]

The 2004 election just broke my heart. I gave it everything I had, and I was crushed when Kerry lost, even though the candidate himself wasn't my first choice for the nomination. I kept telling myself that I wouldn't get sucked in again this time, but Obama got through to me anyway.

Word.

[bquinlan]

I definitely intend to both vote and caucus tomorrow!

And, on a side note, did you know that Obama's reading of "The Audacity of Hope" won him a spoken word Grammy this year? It's his second Grammy, since his reading of "Dreams From My Father" won in 2006.

In fairness, Hilary also has one for her reading of "It Takes a Village" in 1997.

[mongo42]

[teresa_c]

I voted for him. And hope very much that I will have the opportunity to, again.