Obama: So Close, So Far
I had good conversations with friends, last weekend. I think most are tuned into what Obama could do for our country. I think I may have even won a handful of people over.
Obama’s got a shot. He does. But as easily as I can imagine him taking the presidency, I can just as easily imagine the crushing disappointment of seeing Clinton standing up there; the last eight years have conditioned me for disappointment.
Clinton could be a perfectly competent president, but Obama could be a great one. As Devon puts it, we’ll all be kicking ourselves if history passes us by by just a few percentage points.
I’ve donated a few hundred dollars to Obama’s campaign, in the past, but today I donated many, many more. South Carolina is coming up. Super Tuesday is coming up. Now is the time.
Related Posts:
- Mudslinging (March, 2008)
- The Lobbying vs. the Lobbyist (April, 2008)
- Symbolic, Mundane (December, 2008)
- Dennis Kucinich (May, 2007)
- “Bigotry has always made exceptions” (June, 2007)
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:48 am
If Edwards doesn’t win SC, I’ll be voting for Obama in CA.
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Good to hear it, Logan. Edwards is better on a number issues for me, too, but this race is only partly about the issues, IMHO. I really hope that Edwards drops out before Super Tuesday and throws his support behind Obama. I hope he can act strategically if he really believes in the change that he wants for the US.
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
It’s worth noting that to this point no one has outright “won” a race in terms of number of delegates. If you really do believe he has superior policy points, then there’s a lot to be said for giving Edwards the negotiating leverage of extra delegates going in to the Democratic convention, given that it may be a tight race between the two frontrunners. I am still going back and forth between Edwards and Kucinich, for this very reason.