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just a quick note --
I'm feeling better and better about Barack Obama.
I was leaning a little Edwards-... well, Edwards-ward for a long time, simply because I didn't have enough hope that enough of our fellow citizens could bring themselves to vote for anyone but a white man to think of Clinton or Obama as the best nominee. (Tortured syntax, I know. Lots of embedding. I'll give you a minute. Everyone back with me?) If we could make one of these out of the three of them, it'd be a walkover -- instead of a heart/head/hands trio, we've sort of got a sincerity/experience/electability trio, and an amalgam of the three candidates would be the perfect storm, wouldn't it?
Alas, candidate-grafting technology is still unavailable to us, so we have to pick one. And I know it's still early days, so Obama could still end up not being the nominee; and I'd be fine with either of the other two as the nominee, truly, because even Bill Richardson could probably beat the (with apologies to my right-leaning friends) clowns and whatnot the Republicans are trying to decide among. But the more I pay attention over the past few days, the more I like Obama, and the more I find myself (despite how wonderful the phrase "Madam President" would be) hoping he wins, and, because the guy is a tremendous orator with that kind of effect on people, daring to imagine it, not with "if", but with "when".
I was leaning a little Edwards-... well, Edwards-ward for a long time, simply because I didn't have enough hope that enough of our fellow citizens could bring themselves to vote for anyone but a white man to think of Clinton or Obama as the best nominee. (Tortured syntax, I know. Lots of embedding. I'll give you a minute. Everyone back with me?) If we could make one of these out of the three of them, it'd be a walkover -- instead of a heart/head/hands trio, we've sort of got a sincerity/experience/electability trio, and an amalgam of the three candidates would be the perfect storm, wouldn't it?
Alas, candidate-grafting technology is still unavailable to us, so we have to pick one. And I know it's still early days, so Obama could still end up not being the nominee; and I'd be fine with either of the other two as the nominee, truly, because even Bill Richardson could probably beat the (with apologies to my right-leaning friends) clowns and whatnot the Republicans are trying to decide among. But the more I pay attention over the past few days, the more I like Obama, and the more I find myself (despite how wonderful the phrase "Madam President" would be) hoping he wins, and, because the guy is a tremendous orator with that kind of effect on people, daring to imagine it, not with "if", but with "when".