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Obama
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is election day in 24 states, including: Massachusetts, California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, and other states where few of my readers live :)
I'm not gonna have a chance today to write a real post about why I endorse Obama, so here are some links to explain or illustrate why I support Obama.
I'm not gonna have a chance today to write a real post about why I endorse Obama, so here are some links to explain or illustrate why I support Obama.
- xkcd's endorsement of Obama
- Obama's speech on religion and politics to a religious audience. Long but excellent, watch the whole thing!
- Because it works! - Obama's conflict-resolution approach
- Former president of Chicago's NOW chapter on why she switched to Obama (short video)
- Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters (Andrew Sullivan)
- Endorsements from the Boston Globe and from Blue Mass Group
- The Choice - why progressives should choose Obama over Clinton
- Edit: Lawrence Lessig (EFF board member, founder of Creative Commons, Stanford Law professor) endorses Obama in this 20min video
Geek, Tech, Open Government
- Obama plans to have a Tech czar to "ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans".
- Obama supports Net Neutrality - and understands why.
- xkcd's endorsement of Obama
War
- Obama's early opposition to the Iraq war
- Obama's 2002 speech on Iraq
- Get Your War On artist David Rees endorses Obama for his opposition to cluster bombs in civilian areas.
Rule of Law
- Obama's views on presidential power & the Constitution
- Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees endorse Obama en masse
- Judge him by his laws - "Consider a bill into which Obama clearly put his heart and soul. The problem he wanted to address was that too many confessions, rather than being voluntary, were coerced -- by beating the daylights out of the accused. Obama proposed requiring that interrogations and confessions be videotaped."
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