Reply #35: Everyone who is of age should have a voice.

[Berry Cool]

And I'm getting mighty tired of the argument that Obama is nothing but flowery rhetoric and pretty speeches and that he attracts a cultlike following of zombies who are paying no attention to his substanceless platform or utter lack of experience.

For one thing, his platform doesn't lack substance. For another, he doesn't completely lack experience, and where he does, his lack matches up similarly to that of some guys who turned out to be pretty good presidents.

I also don't believe he will essentially bend over and take it from the Repugs, which is the other big argument against him.

Hillary has some things to be said for her, but at the end of the day I can't rid myself of the idea that if she becomes president, she's going to share the office with Bill, and, indeed, possibly be a figurehead while he steers the ship. I don't have enough Clinton nostalgia in me to like that thought, and I'm too feminist to want to see it happen. I feel it would be a mistake to be so miserable over the 2000s that we reach back for the 1990s. Just as it would be a mistake just to go for Obama because he's "new" and for no other reason.