Swayed [politics]

[mizarchivist]

I want this guy in charge. 

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

Did you just recently decide, or have you known for a while?

WOW

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I hadn't listened to his whole speech before. I'm glad I did.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to all of it, but...yeah. He's pretty damn good, isn't he?

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Man can speech, can't he?

Yeah, me too. He has a significant chunk of what once was my money, too.

[mizarchivist]

I'd been leaning in his direction since about a week before the primaries, but now it's more whole-hearted.
That he wrote it himself means a lot to me.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I want him as my President, too. :-)

[beowabbit]

No kidding. Welcome to the Obama bandwagon. :-)

[mizarchivist]

Hmph. No bandwagon.

[beowabbit]

Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend. I was just using “bandwagon” as a physical, somewhat humorous symbol for the campaign and the people who support it. I didn’t mean to imply that you were being swayed by peer pressure or anything like that.

[mizarchivist]

ok. Definitely not with the blind following-
I don't think he's the second coming, but his attitude makes me think we can act like grown ups instead of like petulant 5 yr olds- but I'm sure that's not a new sentiment to you :)

[beowabbit]

Definitely not with the blind following- I don't think he's the second coming, [...]

Oh, no, me neither. He’s an unusually smart politician who had an unusual path to his current candidacy which let him get here with more of his honour and honesty intact than most politicians manage, but (like Zaphod Beeblebrox) he’s just this guy, you know? Bill Clinton disappointed me in a lot of ways, Deval Patrick disappointed me in a lot of ways, and if and when Barack Obama takes office, I’m sure he’s going to disappoint me in a lot of ways. But I still think he’ll be a paradigm-shifting president, and a real twenty-first-century president.

[beowabbit]

I wrote:

a real twenty-first-century president.

You know, that was kind of content-free. Must be the Kool-Aid. :-) What I meant was that he seems not to be conducting his candidacy quite on the same playing field that presidential candidacies of the second half of the 20th century were played on. Clinton and McCain (And Edwards and Huckabee and Romney) were all playing on the board I’ve been familiar with all my life. Obama is not quite making the same kinds of obeisances, not quite using the same language, not managing or raising his money in quite the same way. And he’s making precedent by doing so, and having it succeed. (To be fair, his campaign is definitely standing on Howard Dean’s shoulders. Dean was the first candidate who ever got me to contribute money during the primary.)

And I think as president he will similarly surprise people when they discover that some of the unwritten rules of politics don’t actually trump wisdom and judgement, and you can actually break them with impunity. You can speak to the citizens as adults, as equals, and trust them with some complex truths, and it’s not a political disaster. And I think he’ll be a precedent-setting president as he has been a precedent-setting candidate.

(Much as I loved Edwards’ message and values — I was wavering between him and Obama for a while, and I’d have been entirely content to have him as the Democratic nominee, if he came out of the process with a chance in the general —, his speeches were rabble-rouser to rabble, rather than thinking person to thinking people.)

Obama is my man!

[kebbykate.livejournal.com]

I've been on the kool-aid since the convention speech in '04. I saw him on my screen then and said to myself, "This man must become President."

My mother, who lives in Illinois, has seen him in person several times and thinks he's great. And have I told you about the conversation I had with the 80-year-old lady from church last week? Oh my! We just can't contain ourselves.