Obama-rama!
I don't get to vote until next week (Feb 12th for VA), but the Super Duper (Fat) Tuesday primaries and caucuses are bringing lots of cool Obama bloggery out.
LINKS:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009905.html
I'm for Obama knowing perfectly well that, as Bill Clinton suggested, it's a "roll of the dice". A roll of the dice for Democrats, for progressives, for those of us who've fought so hard against the right-wing frames that Obama sometimes (sometimes craftily, sometimes naively) deploys. Because I think a Hillary Clinton candidacy will be another game of inches, yielding--at best--another four or eight years of knifework in the dark. Because I think an Obama candidacy might actually shake up the whole gameboard, energize good people, create room and space for real change.
Because he seems to know something extraordinarily important, something so frequently missing from progressive politics in this country, in this time: how to hearten people. Because when I watch him speak, I see fearful people becoming brave.
That's not enough. But it's something. It's a real something. It's a start.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html
(Video by Lawrence Lessig)
http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1048360.html
Please, Democrats. Please God.
Do not vote for "who you think can get elected."
[...]
Vote for your heart. Vote for who you want in office. Which is hard, because frankly there's not as big a difference between Hillary and Obama as they'd like you to believe, but find something.
LINKS:
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009905.html
I'm for Obama knowing perfectly well that, as Bill Clinton suggested, it's a "roll of the dice". A roll of the dice for Democrats, for progressives, for those of us who've fought so hard against the right-wing frames that Obama sometimes (sometimes craftily, sometimes naively) deploys. Because I think a Hillary Clinton candidacy will be another game of inches, yielding--at best--another four or eight years of knifework in the dark. Because I think an Obama candidacy might actually shake up the whole gameboard, energize good people, create room and space for real change.
Because he seems to know something extraordinarily important, something so frequently missing from progressive politics in this country, in this time: how to hearten people. Because when I watch him speak, I see fearful people becoming brave.
That's not enough. But it's something. It's a real something. It's a start.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/20_minutes_or_so_on_why_i_am_4.html
(Video by Lawrence Lessig)
http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1048360.html
Please, Democrats. Please God.
Do not vote for "who you think can get elected."
[...]
Vote for your heart. Vote for who you want in office. Which is hard, because frankly there's not as big a difference between Hillary and Obama as they'd like you to believe, but find something.