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Doctor_J

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Sun Mar-16-08 08:16 PM
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Why I am supporting Obama (long)

I am a 51-year-old lifelong Dem, somewhere left of center in the party (left of the Clintons, right of Sanders). I was hoping that John Edwards would take on McShame, but he won't. Here's why I am supporting Obama. Take it for what it's worth.

In the first place, I am far from sure that Hillary can beat McShame. He could well take all of Smirk's states as well as MI and/or PA. She has no chance of winning a popular or electoral landslide, and could lose one or both. She will bring to the GE campaign all of her husband's baggage, and none of the glow of his 68% approval rating on 1/20/2001. The attacks on her from Big Media, GOP "leaders" like Dan Burton, Tom Delay,etc., and Hate Radio will know no floor. Chelsea will again be brought under attack. Hil herself will be called a murderer, adulterer, lesbian, bitch, enabler of her husband's adultery, and everything else, right out loud (remember a McShame supporter asking the spotty old dirt bag, "how do we beat the bitch", and him laughing?).

And that brings me to my next point. Should she squeak out an electoral win, her presidency will be an exact duplicate of Bill's. She will be so busy fighting off weekly lawsuits, filthy rumors, lies, malicious prosecution (Whitewater will be re-opened, along with her cattle windfall, Vince Foster's death, the White House Travel Office, etc.) that the Dems will be completely unable to enact any sort of agenda. They may hold onto the House & Senate in 2010, but it won't matter, since the legislative slate will be consumed with investigations into every dollar she ever made, every case she ever tried as a lawyer, and every guest who stayed at the WH while she was first lady. The Yellow Dogs will remain DINOs and many may defect again. Combine all of this with her odious campaign, including her statement that McShame would be a better president than Obama, and you have a candidate that is not worth going to the polls for.

And then there's Obama. He has a CHANCE to make a tidal change in this country. A chance to be so popular here and abroad that the cancer that is the current GOP can be destroyed before it destroys the country. Is it guaranteed? Of course not. Is it a better chance than Clinton? about a million to none. I don't understand how the Clinton supporters can not catch on to the fact that an Obama candidacy will bring 5-10 MILLION MORE YOUNG VOTERS TO THE POLLS, TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC. My daughter's friends are 20something, mostly hard-core Catholic who lean GOP due to the abortion issue but are extremely disillusioned with Smirk by Katrina, his elitist economic policies and the astounding corruption. They love Obama, and are willing to overlook his pro-choice stance because they would much rather he than McShame be president while they become adults. If they don't come to the polls in November, the election will be decided by people who get their news From Limpballs and O'Really. Do you think Hillary can win such a contest? Obama also is far more likely to garner crossovers that HRC. Period. Nothing bad can come of this. People like Rendell talk of how "A lot of people aren't yet ready to vote for a black man for president". So what? Those people are hard-core wingers who aren't going to vote for Clinton either. And they're more than offset by the far lefties who would be swayed TOWARD Obama primarily because of his race. The hordes of young people who are flocking to him may even be enough to neutralize hate radio and cabal news. They'll of course do what they do, of course, but the generation who have been worshiping them during their adult lives will have been overwhelmed by an inspired mass of young people.

Hartmann had on a guest this week called Robert Creamer (not the baseball writer - someone younger). He posts at Huff. He said he's supporting Obama because that's the candidate that's most likely to pull the US out of what is undoubtedly a death spiral at the current point in time. His charisma will provide long coattails in November and will go along way toward neutralizing the GOP media stranglehold once he's in office.

IMO, it's our best chance at REALLY taking back the country, instead of just maintaining a center-right agenda for a few years.