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Joe Perez on Obama

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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).

Unfair to Huckabee

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You know – if Huckabee had dropped out yesterday, leaving Romney in the race against McCain, I wonder if the media would still be saying that McCain has effectively sewn up the Republican nomination. I hate it when reporters do this kind of thing. Maybe we should wait for people to actually vote.

It’s still a long shot, but still, in the delegate count, Huckabee isn’t all that far behind Romney and he has, in fact, won several states. And isn’t he in fact helped by Romney’s withdrawal, emerging as the main alternative to McCain?

Perhaps I’m biased, because I can’t stand Mitt Romney and I kinda like Huckabee — despite, y’know, Huckabee’s actual positions on the issues. I would never vote for either man, but I think Huckabee’s being treated unfairly here.