I'm voting for Obama
Obscure film blogs can't really make political "endorsements," but there comes a time when you have to use whatever tools you've got to support a cause you believe in.
I'm voting for Barack Obama, and I hope you will, too, because we need a president who can lead and inspire the whole country. Obama does that better than anyone in the field -- better than any politician I can remember, in fact. He and Clinton are close in terms of policy, and there are issues on which I don't agree with either one of them. Our problems won't all suddenly be solved if Obama is elected. But in a president, powerful rhetoric can make a difference.
We need to end the false dichotomy of "red" versus "blue" in America. Our children should not grow up in a country where a feud that started before they were born dominates political discourse throughout their formative years. We need a leader who can inspire the other 299 million of us to work to heal our divisions.
This part of Obama's South Carolina victory speech gets to the heart of it:
"And what we’ve seen in these last weeks is that we’re also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation. It’s the politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon. A politics that tells us that we have to think, act, and even vote within the confines of the categories that supposedly define us. The assumption that young people are apathetic. The assumption that Republicans won’t cross over. The assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor, and that the poor don’t vote. The assumption that African-Americans can’t support the white candidate; whites can’t support the African-American candidate; blacks and Latinos can’t come together. But we are here tonight to say that this is not the America we believe in."
And since this is a video blog, of course, here's the speech on video:
I'm voting for Barack Obama, and I hope you will, too, because we need a president who can lead and inspire the whole country. Obama does that better than anyone in the field -- better than any politician I can remember, in fact. He and Clinton are close in terms of policy, and there are issues on which I don't agree with either one of them. Our problems won't all suddenly be solved if Obama is elected. But in a president, powerful rhetoric can make a difference.
We need to end the false dichotomy of "red" versus "blue" in America. Our children should not grow up in a country where a feud that started before they were born dominates political discourse throughout their formative years. We need a leader who can inspire the other 299 million of us to work to heal our divisions.
This part of Obama's South Carolina victory speech gets to the heart of it:
"And what we’ve seen in these last weeks is that we’re also up against forces that are not the fault of any one campaign, but feed the habits that prevent us from being who we want to be as a nation. It’s the politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon. A politics that tells us that we have to think, act, and even vote within the confines of the categories that supposedly define us. The assumption that young people are apathetic. The assumption that Republicans won’t cross over. The assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor, and that the poor don’t vote. The assumption that African-Americans can’t support the white candidate; whites can’t support the African-American candidate; blacks and Latinos can’t come together. But we are here tonight to say that this is not the America we believe in."
And since this is a video blog, of course, here's the speech on video:
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