Obama endorsement
I've had the experience of my favorite candidate dropping out of the Democratic primary race twice this year, but I still feel like there's a pretty big difference between my third choice, Barack Obama, and my last choice, Hillary Clinton. I think that Obama would bring in a wave of optimism and reform. I think that Clinton would bring in, to quote Steve Earle, "four more years of things not gettin' worse." Two political thinkers who I respect greatly have made this argument at greater length and more effectively than I can. The law professor and technologist Lawrence Lessig has a video providing 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack. The cartoonist David Rees, writer of the incredible Get Your War On, wrote a great essay on Clinton, Obama, and Cluster Bombs. The message of both is that Obama has a moral courage that Clinton doesn't and has the potential to affect American politics much more deeply and positively.