Why Obama?
I'm driving to Nevada this weekend to canvass for Obama. Unlike get-out-the-vote phone banking this means talking with swing voters and trying to convince them to change their vote. To get myself prepared I've had to ask myself why I'm voting the way I am. These are my reasons.
Why Obama:
- The primary thing that's impressed me from the very ( Read more... )
No, but McCain sought out and accepted the endorsement of eschatological wackjob John Hagee. That guy is 10 times the danger to the country that Wright is.
Obama is not going to pursue any policies based on Wright-style rantings. Obama is not a Black Separatist and he is not a racist, evidenced by pretty much every word he has ever uttered and every action he has ever taken, and well illustrated by tongodeons Why Obama #8.
On the other hand, McCain is not only influenced by end-times, young-earth extremists, he actually chose one as his running mate.
And if you don't understand the nature of the pulpit hyperbole of Wright then you really, really, really don't understand anything about the on-the-street, in-the-pulpit reality of the African-American experience. IMO, that Obama can see, hear, and feel the justified anger and bitterness of black Americans while not buying into the illogic, paranoia, and extremism that it can breed is a testament to his clear-headed, pragmatic, post-partisan, and post-racial temperament.
The notion that Obama has lots of shady connections is a nice GOP talking point but the evidence just doesn't hold up. If Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Raines are the worst that can be found after tens of thousands of hours of GOP oppo research on a public official who has already written a lengthy autobiography then Obama is about as clean as you can get, especially in contrast to a member of the Keating 5 and someone who is married into a separatist militia group.
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