Chris Crain, on Obama vs. Clinton on gay rights:

I know what life is like for gays who live in my native South, and I’ve seen firsthand how the issue can rip apart families and friendships. And laws like the Defense of Marriage Act have a direct impact on my life, since my partner and I cannot live together in the U.S. because of it. It makes a real difference to me that Barack Obama favors full repeal of DOMA and Hillary only half, and because she has consistently tried to defend the nefarious law signed by her husband in 1996.

Why is there such low turnout in the Louisiana primary today? That’s bad news for Obama. It scares me.

I think Joe Perez has most accurately captured why I’m supporting Obama for the Democratic nomination.

But I want to point this part out specifically.

Unfortunately, too many Obama supporters have gotten carried away with their enthusiasm and have built up a puffed up image of the man as a sort of messiah figure…

Obama is not a saint, nor a savior, nor the second coming of JFK and MLK all rolled into one… But nevertheless, he’s my call.

Just because I support Obama does not mean that I’m a mindless idealist falling prey to hype. In fact, one of the reasons that I initially leaned away from him was because many of his supporters unsettled me.

It’s interesting for me to go back and read that post and see how I changed my mind. That’s one of the great things about blogging, keeping a diary, whatever – you can record the history of your thoughts and see how they’ve evolved (or haven’t).