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Election 2008: An Attempt to Understand Our Options

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:

"The unexamined vote is not worth casting."

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Past Candidate Posts

Click on any of the links below to see my past posts on these candidates who have now dropped out of the runnings:

Clinton
Biden
Dodd
Edwards
Gravel
Kucinich
Paul

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About Me...

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.

Key Starting Points

Intro for New Visitors
A Summary of My Thoughts in a Radio Piece I Did...
Closing Thoughts on the Night Before the Election...
Post-election Posts
Pictures of Some of Us During the Election Cycle in Virginia
Meet the Man Who Would, and I Think Should, Be President (and now is!)
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Series on Various Subjects

From the Horse's Mouth Series (direct video/audio of the candidates on various issues)

The Value, and Values, of Barack Series

Woe is McCain Series

Past Series: My Major Qualms With Clinton (done before she dropped out)

Two questions on Iraq...

1: Was Iraq wrong? If so, wrong enough NOT to support early proponents of an invasion, such as McCain?
2: Why exactly did Obama and others oppose an invasion of Iraq beforehand?

Note on comments: If I know you, please consider using your name if you leave a comment, as it allows for more of a connection, encouraging the type of honest dialogue that is too rare in our society (in my view).

Posts on Topics (or search by keyword using the box at top-left)

Issues
Abortion
Economy
Energy
Faith
Health care
Iraq, Afghanistan & war in general
National service
Parenting
Race & racism
Social justice
Terrorism
Women's issues

Other topics
Debates
Endorsements
Experience question
Getting involved/volunteering
Lack of integrity (in both parties)
Music for politics
Repub. & Dem. Conventions
Repub's/Conservatives for Obama
Virginia & the Presidential Election

Other past topics...

Posts on Various People

Candidates
John McCain
Barack Obama

VP Candidates
Sarah Palin (McCain VP candidate)
Joe Biden (Obama VP candidate)

Others
Bill Ayers
Bill Moyers (this is the PBS guy, not Maher, and his show is basically better than any other education I've had; check out his website)
Colin Powell
Michelle Obama
Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Past candidate posts...

"Only by having excellent people in government can we have excellent performance by government."

-Albert Carnesale

Site stats thus far

Unique visitors:

With so many blogs, it's helpful to know you're not the only one looking at something. Check here for stats like average time spent on the site, etc.

I was also encouraged to see this rating of my blog in the top ten Obama blogs by Blogger.com (nothing spectacular, but nice no less!).

Blog Archive

▼ 2009 (8)
- ▼ September (1)
  - Some Closure
- ► June (1)
- ► February (3)
- ► January (3)

► 2008 (84)
- ► December (3)
- ► November (12)
- ► October (12)
- ► September (9)
- ► August (8)
- ► July (4)
- ► June (7)
- ► May (2)
- ► April (4)
- ► March (6)
- ► February (8)
- ► January (9)

► 2007 (14)
- ► December (10)
- ► November (4)

Get-to-know-the-candidate Links Part 1 (all use video clips)

All the debate videos, analysis, etc.
C-SPAN - Road to the White House (great candidate town hall events, etc.)
Election 2008 TV Ads (just make this like your 402nd source of information for voting--i.e., get in-depth info. elsewhere)
Global Poverty Stances of Both Candidates (OneVote08)
Social Justice Stances of Obama
You Tube Election '08 Page

Get-to-know-the-candidate Links Part 2

McCain's Blog
McCain's Stances on Issues
Obama's Blog
Obama's Stances on Issues
Obama "Fight the Smears" Site (facts on common misconceptions about Obama)
OpenSecrets.org: Who Exactly Donates to the Candidates?
ProCon.org on Candidate Positions
Republicans for Obama (stories of Rep's supporting O., Rep. issues section, etc.)
Vote Gopher on Candidate Positions

Various Election Coverage Sources

Newspaper: The Wall Street Journal
Newspaper: The Washington Post
Online: Politifact.com (rates accuracy of statements)
Online: See What the Candidates Themselves (& Reporters) Are Reading
Radio: National Public Radio (NPR)
TV: PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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