Supporting Barack Obama
It’s Super Tuesday; voters here in California and 23 other states will go to the polls to select candidates in their parties’ primaries.
I’m convinced that the damage that the Republican administration has done to this country will take a generation to repair. I lost my taste some time ago for the tenor of political debate in this country, and I have very little patience for the kind of candidate that will make equivocation and political gamesmanship the order of the day.
Although conventional wisdom states that the two remaining Democratic candidates are pretty much aligned on all the big issues, my vote is being informed by two things: 1) She voted for the war and 2) My discomfort with the notion of the White House bouncing back and forth between two families for decades on end.
This is not how government of/by/for the people was intended to work. At all.
So I’m voting for Barack Obama today.
In a related note, NPR began a story this morning by describing Bush as "the current occupant of the White House" which must have been a nod to the term that author Sarah Vowell uses to describe him. She can’t bring herself to use his name, ever: she calls him "the current president".
