Huffpo: I Can't Believe I'm Standing Up for Obama... But I Am

[dkf]

I am not a devotee or disciple. I am a skeptic, and remain somewhat skeptical. Still, over the past few weeks I have become convinced that Barack Obama is the better choice for the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. And, well... God help us all if that's not enough to make him president.

My conclusion is based on several components, but coheres around one theme. Besides what I have experienced as his superior demonstrations of strength, composure, restraint, and reasoning during their last two one-on-one debates, Senator Obama has structured his campaign around what I feel is an irrefutable truth: the United States government will never again function efficiently unless United States citizens force it to do so. His insistence that the U.S. government must serve its citizenry, and his acknowledgment that it will do so only if the citizenry once again holds its government accountable is a statement so simplistic that it is, for some, dismissible. It also happens to be a truism so profound that it might, I have come to hope, be unstoppable.

Please read the rest of this excellent excellent piece:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-handler/i-cant-believe-im-stand_b_89448.html

[ClayZ]

1. K and R

[FrenchieCat]

2. Interesting, as he makes an excellent case, and one that is true.

I just started reading Obama's first book, Tales of my Father, and in it he speaks of dreaming of Grassroots taking back the government in his preface written in 2004. I would get the exact quoting, but it is late, and I don't want to wake up the hubby, who already believes that I am out of my mind for the last few years. However, he supports Barack, and so he doesn't mind it so much (he didn't seen quite as eye to eye with me on my last candidate choice a few years back).

[mattclearing]

3. I can only imagine what he must have gone through.

I remember what I went through for dismissing Clark to you, and that was AFTER THE ELECTION, and on an anonymous message board.

[caseycoon]

4. K&R! Excellent article! Thank you. :o) n/t