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[geekchick]

pnh has a post up at Making Light in which he endorses Obama, which links in turn to a couple of posts at Obsidian Wings. Since I've heard this from people recently, I wanted to point out Hilzoy's post in particular, addressing the "Obama's all style and no substance" complaints.

I'll vote for Hillary if she ends up being the candidate (because I trust her marginally more than McCain, much less any of the other remaining wingnuts still in the Republican race), but as Patrick says:

I’m for Obama knowing perfectly well that, as Bill Clinton suggested, it’s a “roll of the dice”. A roll of the dice for Democrats, for progressives, for those of us who’ve fought so hard against the right-wing frames that Obama sometimes (sometimes craftily, sometimes naively) deploys. Because I think a Hillary Clinton candidacy will be another game of inches, yielding—at best—another four or eight years of knifework in the dark. Because I think an Obama candidacy might actually shake up the whole gameboard, energize good people, create room and space for real change.

Because he seems to know something extraordinarily important, something so frequently missing from progressive politics in this country, in this time: how to hearten people. Because when I watch him speak, I see fearful people becoming brave.

That’s not enough. But it’s something. It’s a real something. It’s a start.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

He likes Reagan and uses right-wing frames, and his healthcare plan is clearly to the right of Clinton's. So I'd disagree. But not go on about it any further in someone else's journal.

At this point, I trust Clinton more than Bambi... the devil one knows, perhaps.