I support Barack Obama for all the wrong reasons. Let me explain my political reasoning, from my pragmatic idealist point of view:
- Barack Obama is, dare I say the word, Black. Well, part Black. Part African American. Mixed? Shoot me for a racist if I've not got the current PC term right, but he's Not White. I highly support the election of decent people who are Not White, Not Male, Not Straight, or Not Christian. There are an awful lot of people in this country and most of us are either Not White, Not Male, Not Straight, or Not Christian and it's about damn time we were represented at the highest level. It's only fair to give Not White/Male/Straight/Christian (hereafter known as Not WMSC) the same chance to screw up that straight white Christian guys have.
- Barack Obama is articulate, which, apparently, is a new code word for identifying the user as racist or something when it's used to describe a Not WMSC. If there's a sense of amazement that someone is articulate, it may be because we've had all these years of inarticulate mumblesyllabic garble from G.W. Bush, and we're simply grateful hear from someone whose sentences make sense.
- Barack Obama is funny, and can tell a joke without causing a political crisis. It'd be a lot safer for us to have a President both with a sense of humor and the ability to use it without pissing off all the enlisted men or offending a hostile country that has nuclear weapons and is just itching to use them.
- Barack Obama can pronounce the word "Nuclear", and I do not believe in allowing a person to be in control of anything that they can't pronounce.
- Barack Obama seems to be a decent person. I don't agree with all of his policies, but then, I don't have to. I know, I know, it seems pretty risky to elect someone who doesn't say everything you want to hear, but I'm willing to chance it for someone who means what they say. Sincerity counts for more than "thinks just like me", and in any case, it's not all about me, it's about a whole country of people with different needs and opinions. I think that people forget that too often, and only want themselves represented.
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Thats just my opinion
America has elected plenty of people to office that are not WMSC and America will continue to do that, we have matured and as a woman I do not "autoimatically" vote for a woman, just as not WMSC vote for the best candidate and not along racial or class lines.
I would like to see Obama actually lay out some sort of detail on something -- Iraq, energy policy, etc that includes some originality. Just because I do not support another 4 years of pro-corporation, unconstitutional fascism does not mean that I will support blindly anyone running in a particular column. I want someone who will work things out, who is transparent about his or her objectives and who does not have any secret agenda -- so far I can think of perhaps four people in our society who match that criteria, and I hope to add Obama's name to the list.
Until Barak gives me more than vague aphorisms about the future and hard-luck stories from his past I will be reserving judgement.