Obama

[cos]

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.

• 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."
  

Comments

[japlady.livejournal.com]

correct me if I'm wrong but he intends to gut NASA

[yix.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you guys brought up the NASA stuff, I was interested in that too.

Also, I really like your new icon. :)

I'm looking forward to our caucus on Saturday, even if it's after the big deal tuesday.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Barack Obama's energy policy is weak and full of platitudes. That's why I won't be voting for him.

[ratontheroad.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this collection.

This is my first time getting involve with any sort of campaign, and working for Obama's campaign in C. Springs began to open my eyes a bit to the political process. But one thing it did not is get me good info on Obama to give to others... they don't have the time to train you in a lot of the details, just get you to move people.

Since you have more experience with this sort of thing, what else might I consider if I'm wanting to donate my time and energy to the Obama campaign?

[merinslips.livejournal.com]

I get this sinking feeling that because you're supporting him, he's not going to win. :/ You don't seem representative of America... :( And I want him to win, based on all the stuff I've read about him because of you.