‪Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video‬‏ - YouTube
Yes, I voted for the President. I campaigned for him. I did a lot of work for Rock the Vote back in 2008. The video above (which, yes, I know and knew then was propaganda) inspired me. After eight years of President Bush, the country seemed depressed and downtrodden. What I voted for was a leader who was willing to compromise, who would restore some dignity (intelligence) to the Oval Office, and start the long process of cleaning up our tarnished image internationally. I voted for a progressive candidate who would sit down, assess our problems, and then get to work fixing them. I voted for a man whose sweeping rhetoric restored the hope people had in their government to be a conduit for good, where people came together, and no one was left behind.
Is that what I got? Not... to the extent I was hoping for. Is it my fault for being naive? Is it the President's fault for being
too willing to compromise? Was I stupid to think the first black man to sit in the Oval Office would be able to do anything but fend off the ignorant, redneck, whistlin' dixie half of this country in their thinly veiled racism? Maybe. Maybe it's all of those things. I have seen President Obama do very little governing. I've seen his White House show up at the OK Corral and give the Claton's one free pass after another... so I don't have much of a record to go on that would see me voting
against him.
And besides... what's the alternative? Does the political right have a candidate that
isn't a rejected Looney Toon? That isn't hypocritical to the point of bloviating on the sanctity of marriage, after having been married
several times? That wants
better government as opposed to
no government? That has any chance in hell of winning anything?
Find me a reasonable candidate, interested in governance over politics, that doesn't suffer from some unnamed mental handicap, that advocates for the advancement of the United States through reason and logic and I'll vote for him or her. The closest I've found that is definitely going to be on the ballot in 2012 is Barack Obama.
JSZ