2008 Still Undecided?
posted by on February 9 at 11:05 AM
Maybe we can help. After all, we’ve been taking close looks at the candidates (and our own navels) since last fall.
Here’s Erica C. Barnett on Hillary Clinton.
Here’s yours truly on Barack Obama’s unique appeal and his historic win in Iowa.
Here’s Dan Savage on John McCain.
Here’s Christopher Frizzelle on the difficulty of making a decision.
Here’s Jonathan Raban on the church of Obama.
Here’s Jonathan Golob on the case for Senator Hillary Clinton.
Here’s Josh Feit on demographic trends.
Here’s Annie Wagner on feminist complaints.
And here’s yours truly on Ron Paul.
Where's the profile on Gravel?
I changed my mind last night. My vote is going to _____. She can't haul that shit in November, anyway.
And try this for a really detailed, yet easy to read endorsement of Obama that is nice and substance-y:
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/02/obama-actually.html
Just got off the phone with my mom in Nebraska. Sounds like that one is in the bag for Obama.
I'm buying Clinton, for health care.
If Obama will give up on universal coverage and leave out 50 M Americans and 750,000 Washingtonians, what good is his approach? Universal coverage and mandates are needed as Paul Krugman convincingly argued. This is our big chance. If you leave people out, the insurance companies will take advantage of that and I don't like an approach that doesn't make them cover everyone.
Clinton was also just endorsed by the American Association of Nurses.
I like, and trust, nurses. And no they're not all females.
Anyway I'm sure Obama will get about 60% in Washington today and I'm glad he's going to be on the ticket one way or another. All the Obama supporters make many good points and I'm sorry some of them have a tendency to react, instead of answering, when hard questions are raised. But that's not the candidate and hats off to him, too.
I'm imagining the Dan & Boyfriend Debates being oddly similar to what a Hilary-McCain debate would be like:
Dan/Hilary: "We need a candidate that will get us out of this Iraq mess!"
Boyfriend/McCain: "Excuse me, but didn't YOU support this war?"
Here's a thought:
Jan 20th 2009, SIX of the 9 supreme court justices will be older than 70.
Whom do we want making the next appointments? Who is more likely to win and be in office to do so?
@ndrew
@5--well thank god you're not a single-issue voter...
Darn SLOG spam filter. On wikipedia check out:
Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama
Political_positions_of_Hillary_Rodham_Clinton
It's a sad day when two wikipedia pages are the best way to compare the candidates on the issues.
This college smells like Tacoma.
we wont be seeing universal health care for 6 years...minnimum...to much damage to repair...first thing is fixing the economy...then we can start talking about spending money
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