Jesus is a black man…
I’ve really wrestled with who I want to be president. Since the beginning I’ve been for Hillary but I couldn’t figure out why. She voted for the war, she is a corporate candidate who unapologetically accepts money from lobbyists, and worst of all was recently all but endorsed by Ann Coulter!
It is also discouraging to hear who else supports Hillary Clinton: old people! I was devastated by this New York Times article titled: Is Obama a mac and Hillary a PC? Crap! I thought I was a Mac, I am definitely not a PC! Obama’s website is so awesome, the “features and elements are seamlessly integrated, just like the experience of using a program on a Macintosh computer.” I can’t even make it past the first page of Hillary’s website. Everything is written in all caps, it’s like the page is shouting at me and I need to run away.
To my great relief, Jack Tapper at ABC News has come to my rescue and articulated exactly was is so off putting about the Obama campaign:
Joe Klein, writing at Time, notes “something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism” he sees in Obama’s Super Tuesday speech.
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” Obama said. “This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It’s different not because of me. It’s different because of you.”
Says Klein: “That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause — other than an amorphous desire for change — the message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is. “
Wow, exactly right! Then he quotes somebody else:
The always interesting James Wolcott writes that “(p)erhaps it’s my atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria. I can picture President Hillary in the White House dealing with a recalcitrant Republican faction; I can’t picture President Obama in the same role because his summons to history and call to hope seems to transcend legislative maneuvers and horse-trading; his charisma is on a more ethereal plane, and I don’t look to politics for transcendence and self-certification.”
For real! When people talk to be about Barack Obama they do it with the same sort of giddy idolation usually reserved for over hyped musicians or movies. If Barack Obama was screenwriter instead of a politician his name would be Diablo Cody.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Obama is the only candidate who is pro LGBT and outspoken about that.
Obama is against No Child Left Behind and Hillary is for it.
Clinton wants to force everyone to buy health care, which is troublesome because she is backed by special interest groups. Obama wants to make health care affordable, get more people covered, but still make it a choice.
If Clinton wins, there will have been at least 24 years in a row of a Clinton/Bush administration - not exactly the picture of democracy.
Obama is the better candidate against McCain, who will only get record conservative turnout on his side if they’re voting AGAINST Clinton.
Obama wants to give low-wage workers sick days. He wants to make sure federal contracts are competitively bid on. He wants to make the first $4,000 of a college education is completely tax deductible/refundable.
Obama is a great speaker, like MLK and JFK before him, two figures who were worshiped but still obviously made some impact. I won’t yet say he has made any impact like them, but I believe he will if he gets elected.
Maybe some people get caught up deifying Obama, but most people just love him as a candidate.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Not entirely true. Clinton voted for No Child Left Behind in 2001 and continues to believe in the principles of that legislation. However, she now supports ending the program after Bush cut millions of dollars out of it and turned it into “an unfunded mandate.”