First, here is a fantastic video made from Obama’s 2002 speech against the war. I want to show this as a reminder of who this candidate really is, what he is truly capable of, and not what his main primary foe and crazy “conspiracy nut” emails would have you believe.
This is not a person who lacks experience or judgment, and I hope anyone who comes across the ridiculous emails purporting to be about him will delete those emails, will look past the blatant falsehoods and will see in this candidate someone who can elevate our public discourse above the current pollution and into clearer air.
And about those emails: if you believe any of them, do you really think, even for a moment, that a person who would represent any sort of threat to our government would get past all the government vetting, would be allowed to serve in our Senate and would receive the Secret Service protection he’s getting? The stories are ridiculous. Let them go.
If nothing else, I see in Obama an opportunity for a new direction in our public discourse, and I’d love for everyone to have the opportunity to vote about *that* rather than about what a former President is shouting or about imaginary nut-job ramblings (occasionally, these categories overlap).
Imagine if we really ended up with a choice between two good candidates later this year and had to choose not for the lesser of two evils but got to vote FOR somebody. (In this scenario, it’s Obama and McCain.) This time, if we can shut out the noise and distractions, we may actually have that opportunity.
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