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It's All About Obama Now

Submitted by charliehiphop on Tue, 2008-02-05 10:02

I voted today and, for the first time since Bill Clinton's first term, actually felt good about it. Obama is incredible. He is exactly what our country needs after these past seven years of incompetence, rot, and corruption: a true unifying force bearing a powerful message of hope.

Everywhere he goes, he draws massive crowds, far larger crowds than Hillary. He's raising far more money than Hillary. He has far more (and far cooler -- The Grateful Dead?!? Lessig!Come on, you can't front on that!) celebrity endorsements. It is very hard for me to believe that he's not absolutely blowing Hillary out of the water.

Don't get me wrong: I like Senator Clinton. She will make a great Secretary of Health and Human Services or maybe even a great VP, but this Obama fellow is really something special. It's almost as if he's been sent by divine providence to lead us forward and out of these gloomy times. We need an inspirational leader, not a manager or another politician. Hillary is a great politician whose heart really does seem to be in the right place, but she's just not the leader that we need right now. If America is to be "saved" it will not be by "experience" or even competence in government (though that would be nice for a change) but by the indomitable spirit of the American people, our drive to innovate and lead the world, our resilience, our rock-solid foundational principles of liberty and justice, the pursuit of happiness, and all that. Obama fires people up -- that much is clear. We really need this guy, and I'm proud to have cast my vote for him today.

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#1 What about the preacher guy?

Submitted by charliehiphop on Tue, 2008-03-18 09:09.

Obama's campaign has taken a huge hit with the revelation that one of his campaign advisors once said something to the effect that America brought 9/11 on itself. This is politically devastating. It shouldn't be, but it is.

I'll say it right now: America brought 9/11 on itself. We had an ill-conceived and one-sided Israel policy. We maintained unneeded bases on the Arabian Peninsula, Islam's holy land. We bombed Iraq pretty much constantly for 10 years prior to 9/11. And let's not forget that we loved Osama and his boys, taught them everything they knew, and pretty much turned them into made men way back in the day when they were duking it out with the Russkies in the Hindu Kush. As if that weren't enough, the $80 billion we spent on intelligence in 2000-2001 clearly didn't buy us much.

Does that mean that the terrorists were right? Does it mean that all those people deserved to die? Of course not. It means that sometimes you have to put your emotions aside and consider your own culpability when things go wrong. I think that now -- with almost seven years to anaesthetize the pain of that horrible day -- is a good time to take stock of what we could have done differently.

Of course it's easy for me to say that; I'm not running for office in a climate of fear and ignorance.