[quote=DWCAP]Now PLEASE, someone please tell me why you support Obama.[/quote]
Some reasons why I support Obama:
His opposition of the Iraq War at a time when it was politically risky to do so.
His educational background. President of Harvard Law. Constitutional Scholar. In a time when our Constitution is being shredded, we need someone who has spent years studying and analyzing it so that it can be restored to what it used to be. I want someone who is smarter than me to be president. The anti-intellectual/anti-science/anti-knowledge movement of this country has got to stop.
His position on energy and the environment.
His position on net neutrality.
His position on education.
His belief in diplomacy.
He runs a smart campaign. He took down one of the greatest political machines of our time – The Clintons – and is doing a fairly good job against Rove and his proteges.
His online presence puts McCain’s to shame and shows you that his campaign is smart, modern, and knows how to use technology in a beneficial way. This will become more and more important as time moves on. A candidate who understands and uses technology to their advantage is a candidate who will succeed.
He has mobilized the youth in a way that we have never seen.
His history of supporting the middle class.
His community organizing. When’s the last time you did something for your community?
His compelling life story. It is the American Dream. Proof that through hard work, anyone can become anything in this country.
His demeanor – cool, calm, collected, analytical. These are personal qualities that I respect and believe is needed by a President.
His political Jujutsu – the way he handled the Wright situation from a political standpoint was most impressive. He’ll do it again with the Ayers swiftboating.
Yes, he is inspiring. I don’t understand how that has somehow become a negative. Why wouldn’t you want to have an inspiring leader?
Everything we’ve seen from him so far shows that he is a deft politician. From a pure political standpoint, no one can disagree that he has become a political powerhouse.
Now I’m sure anyone can go through my list and pick it apart piece by piece, but this is how politics work. People have different beliefs and different ideas on how the country should move forward. These are my opinions, and yours may differ. For you, Obama may not be the best candidate, but for me, he is.
I certainly don’t agree with Obama on everything. I was disappointed when he caved on FISA, offshore drilling, and the bailout. No candidate is perfect, no candidate will ever match your beliefs 100%, and no candidate will ever make everyone happy. That is impossible. Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good, and hope everything works out in the end. I also don’t think that an Obama administration will achieve everything it has promised – but name a single administration that has. I have no illusions that Obama, or any president for that matter, can just come in and ram through an agenda. You will have to compromise to get stuff done – something we have not seen in a very long time. You have to give a little to get a little. Now some of you will claim that that makes him soft, or that he doesn’t stick to his beliefs, but in the real world, things cannot get done without compromise. If you think otherwise, you are living in a fantasy world.
Now, I’d like a list of reasons why people support John McCain.
