A chronicling of my thoughts on our options for President through the primaries and the general election season. [*NOTE: Since first starting this in early December of '07, and after some months of consideration, I decided to support Barack Obama. This blog covers much of the thought process leading up to and following that decision. I'll include a few post-election thoughts up until the inauguration or a little after.]
In humble attempt at casting this in the tradition of Socrates, a (slightly altered) quote:
Obama supporters in Richmond, VA tonight. Photo credit to Reuters.
Obama swept the three races tonight: 68% in Washington state to Clinton's 31% (96% reporting)--a 37% difference; 57% in Louisiana to Clinton's 36% (99% reporting)--a 21% difference; 68% in Nebraska to Clinton's 32% (100% reporting)--a 36% difference. The point of relaying this is not to disparage Clinton, but to emphasize Obama's electability, and to report the reality of what's going on. The candidates are at a "virtual tie" according to this Washington Post article, which explains more of the details on the race (along with the specifics on the Republican races tonight; according to this great NPR map which I like so much, it shows Huckabee won in Kansas and Louisiana, with Washington appearing to go to McCain).
Clinton and Obama spoke after the results were known in my great state of Virginia, at the Virginia Democratic party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner. Clinton hasn't posted her video yet of the speech, but I'll put it up when it's available. For right now however, here's a compilation of clips from her speech that I found on the Washington Post's website.
Here's Obama's full speech made available through his site:
Brendan Native Virginian living in the DC area who thinks "politics" is just another word for "life," when you consider the realities it deals with: peace, war, health care, the nature of our obligations to one another as fellow human beings, etc. (even if those in politics don't always treat it in this way). In early 2008, after about two months of thinking and writing on here, I became convinced that Obama viewed politics with this level of importance, so I decided to support him. Read posts pre-Feb. '08 to see my thoughts leading up to this, and subsequent ones to see my thoughts from there.
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Obama supporters in Richmond, VA tonight. Photo credit to Reuters.
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