Obama

[mbrubeck]

I'm no Larry Lessig or even Randall Munroe, but here's my 2008 U.S. presidential endorsement, for those who care. It's the last you'll hear about it unless you ask.
I support Barack Obama for President. I don't agree with everything in his platform, and I think several other candidates are also good choices, but Obama is best because:

• He sees

Comments

[martian687]

Uh, wasn't it Obama's campaign that had an "ex-gay" speaker at one of their campaign events at a Southern Baptist church? Also, neither Obama nor Clinton support gay marriage. One of the many reasons I voted for Kucinich is because he was the only candidate to support real gay marriage, and not this "separate but equal" nonsense the others are suggesting.

[martian687]

Also, I find it...annoying? when Obama claims he would've voted against the Iraq war. Hindsight is 20/20, and without him being in the position of having to cast an (at the time) very unpopular vote I feel like we can't really be sure of how he would've voted.

[mbrubeck]

Well, he was speaking out against the war before it started, during his U.S. Senate campaign. So it's not just hindsight. But I agree, he wasn't forced to make the same hard choice as a sitting senator