Voting for Obama

[rm]

Okay, I actually want to write something eloquent about all of this (since the value of eloquence is something I believe to be a substantive issue), but it won't be until tonight if I do, and I have to imagine that if any of you are undecided and voting in Adjective Tuesday you're probably doing your research this evening, and not in the middle of the night when I would probably get around to writing something, so, for now, I direct you to birdseyeview on Obama's record as well as some other random stuff that's at least interesting if not always entirely relevant.

http://birdseyeview.livejournal.com/579222.html

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[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Also, and on the mystical side of things? Obama has been an almost miraculously lucky politician. I've been following his adventures for quite a while now, and remember things like the senatorial campaign where it looked for a while like he'd have to run against the Republican dream candidate -- a stunnngly photogenic self-made gazillionaire who had cashed out and was now actually spending his days teaching in an inner-city school. Without drawing a salary, if I'm remembering correctly. He was smart, he was good on camera, he was big trouble for anybody.

Until his candidacy dissolved in fetid muck over material in previously-sealed divorce papers, that is, and he had to withdraw before the primary campaign was even well launched. So Obama sailed to victory while the Republicans hunted desperately for a candidate, and wound up settling for some imported lunatic (it might even have been Alan Keyes).

I expect I'd be voting for him anyway tomorrow, in the absence of my preferred Al Gore. He called it right on the Iraq thing, which is pretty much my touchstone for, "Do you have the judgment to be a trustworthy American president?" these days. But even if there were no substantive differences between Obama and Clinton, and despite my genuine respect for her, I suspect I'd be voting for Obama tomorrow. I personally don't believe that the general election's in the bag for the Democrats, no matter how much it should be -- and right now, the country can use all the luck it can get.