Yes We Can
Feb. 4th, 2008 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogIn about twelve hours (or as soon before or after that as I can manage to drag my sorry butt to the polls), I will be throwing in my primary vote for Barack Obama. If you are among the many others entrusted with the franchise tomorrow, I urge you to do the same.
I have not been as impressed by a candidate of my party (or any party, for that matter) in any of the seven prior cracks I've taken at voting for this office. Politically, he offers little difference from Hillary Clinton, but his temperament, and his vision, and his potential for uniting the nation is something I haven't seen since I was three years old.
The Senator would be the first holder of the office in my lifetime who is younger than I am. That may seem inconsistent with my prior rejection of Eliot Spitzer solely (all other valid reasons set aside, and there are increasing numbers of them) because he, also, is younger than I am. The difference lies in the difference between the political climates of Albany and Washington. I believe our state's executive needs to be more of an elder statesperson, because the fractiousness and intransigence of Albany politics needs as much "adult supervision" as it can get. On the other hand, the only hope for this nation's government is in its younger voters as they mature into the people who will lead, and defend, and ultimately pay for, our future and that of future generations. We do not need yet another elder Baby Boomer pandering to her own crowd. I'd rather see her taking a strong lead in the Senate, where I suspect a Democratic president will still be running into 60-vote obstacles over just about everything.
The crackers who won't vote for Obama on account of race? They wouldn't have voted for him anyway, on account of his politics. But polling data suggests there are much larger numbers of voters, surprisingly many of them women, who will not vote for Hillary primarily on account of her being Hillary. I find her manipulative, vindictive, and too vulnerable to attack on account of the many legacies of her husband to give her support over a much clearer choice.
Today finally brought some of the missing trappings of our election, now less than a day away. I heard my first campaign ad (for Romney, or rather an attack ad on McCain paid for by him), received my first and only piece of campaign mail (Hillary) and, just now, got an invitation to an Obama fundraiser, at which Dar Williams will be performing. In Manhattan. Tonight. Shit.
Quinipac polls suggest Hillary's got our delegates in her bag, but then the pundits all said the Patriots were gonna run away with it yesterday. And Saturday's groundhog prediction is being belied by a 50-degree forecast for tomorrow. Can we overcome the odds three days out of four?
See the header to this piece:)
I have not been as impressed by a candidate of my party (or any party, for that matter) in any of the seven prior cracks I've taken at voting for this office. Politically, he offers little difference from Hillary Clinton, but his temperament, and his vision, and his potential for uniting the nation is something I haven't seen since I was three years old.
The Senator would be the first holder of the office in my lifetime who is younger than I am. That may seem inconsistent with my prior rejection of Eliot Spitzer solely (all other valid reasons set aside, and there are increasing numbers of them) because he, also, is younger than I am. The difference lies in the difference between the political climates of Albany and Washington. I believe our state's executive needs to be more of an elder statesperson, because the fractiousness and intransigence of Albany politics needs as much "adult supervision" as it can get. On the other hand, the only hope for this nation's government is in its younger voters as they mature into the people who will lead, and defend, and ultimately pay for, our future and that of future generations. We do not need yet another elder Baby Boomer pandering to her own crowd. I'd rather see her taking a strong lead in the Senate, where I suspect a Democratic president will still be running into 60-vote obstacles over just about everything.
The crackers who won't vote for Obama on account of race? They wouldn't have voted for him anyway, on account of his politics. But polling data suggests there are much larger numbers of voters, surprisingly many of them women, who will not vote for Hillary primarily on account of her being Hillary. I find her manipulative, vindictive, and too vulnerable to attack on account of the many legacies of her husband to give her support over a much clearer choice.
Today finally brought some of the missing trappings of our election, now less than a day away. I heard my first campaign ad (for Romney, or rather an attack ad on McCain paid for by him), received my first and only piece of campaign mail (Hillary) and, just now, got an invitation to an Obama fundraiser, at which Dar Williams will be performing. In Manhattan. Tonight. Shit.
Quinipac polls suggest Hillary's got our delegates in her bag, but then the pundits all said the Patriots were gonna run away with it yesterday. And Saturday's groundhog prediction is being belied by a 50-degree forecast for tomorrow. Can we overcome the odds three days out of four?
See the header to this piece:)
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Date: 2008-02-05 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-05 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-05 01:10 am (UTC)I like them both.
The polls open at noon.
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Date: 2008-02-05 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-05 02:11 am (UTC)I think his 'lack of experience' is an asset, not a liability. The leaders of other countries want to talk to a real person, not a sack of... hot air.
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Date: 2008-02-05 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-05 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-05 10:22 pm (UTC)Remember, New York's Democratic primary is NOT winner-take-all. Barack will pick up some delegates here.
Read the third sentence & consider.
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Date: 2008-02-17 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-17 01:35 am (UTC)Now I'm really stumped on who this is.