Leanings

[bladespark]

Lately it seems that every time I hear a little more about what Obama is saying I find myself leaning a little more in his direction.

It's very odd... never in my admittedly short adult life has there been a politician whose speeches I actually felt good about hearing. I've listend to left and right, radical and conservative, lots of different debates, and they all sounded like politicians. Well... Obama still sounds a little like a politician, but not really that much. He's come out and frankly said something. How often does that happen? And usually the thought of going to vote is laden with distaste, because I know that I"m going to be voting somebody I strongly dislike into office, no matter who I vote for. I actually don't strongly dislike Obama.

It's quite shocking.

And it's really a rather massive shame that the odds are that I will never get to vote for him. Somebody who actually appears relatively sane is in the presidential race at long last, but odds are that he won't make it past the primaries, and I am not registered as a democrat, so I don't get to vote in those anyhow. (I refuse to join either of the big parties. I just can't do it. If I must be in a party, I'll take the libertarians.)

I even like or don't hate most of his platform and everything.

Woe.

Comments

[rigger.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah I'm so far firmly in the Obama camp too. I find myself liking his platform and I also think it's high time we had someone other than a Bush or Clinton in office. I'm not trying to impinge upon Hillary's experience...but it's just time for some new blood methinks.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

See, I personally can't stand Hillary, as a person or as a politician. She just gets under my skin.