Reply #45: I can understand your feelings

[Prophet 451]

I'm an Obama supporter but I've never been more than lukewarm on him. Obama was actually my third choice of the candidates who were actually running (after Kucinich and Edwards). He's not perfect, he's sure as hell not as progressive as I'd like. So why am I supporting him?

The late, great Molly Ivins once said that in the primary, she voted to change the world and in the general, she voted for the lesser evil. I'm not allowed to vote in either case but that's largely why I support Obama. For all his faults, he's better (marginally, in some cases) than the alternatives.