Comments on: yes we can http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/02/04/yes-we-can/ digging deep, stretching up, reaching out Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Ndidi http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/02/04/yes-we-can/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Ndidi Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:06:36 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/02/04/yes-we-can/#comment-2228 Hey there! I am an Obama supporter, and I think that's a great way (the link) to show who you're voting for. I haven't announced on my blog who I'm voting for (though I've hinted by my only politics post there so far). I hope he gets the ticket. Feminist or not, Clinton acts rather catty at times. :( Hey there! I am an Obama supporter, and I think that’s a great way (the link) to show who you’re voting for. I haven’t announced on my blog who I’m voting for (though I’ve hinted by my only politics post there so far).
I hope he gets the ticket. Feminist or not, Clinton acts rather catty at times. :(

]]> By: michael http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/02/04/yes-we-can/comment-page-1/#comment-2051 michael Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:22:44 +0000 http://www.swingingfromthevine.com/2008/02/04/yes-we-can/#comment-2051 To Tia's point: I guess it depends on where you live! If in the South, an evnagelical is, yes, very likely to be a social conservative but also a registered Democrat! I suspect the reason so many evangelicals are Republican is not so much the GOP itself as much as a branch of it embraces social conservativism and there simply isn't a conservative party. In the Republican party there is room for debate on, say, the abortion issue--one can be like Swarzneggar, A "pro-choice" republican and still become Governor, whereas in the Dem party there is absolutely no platform for pro-life and thus many of us former Democrats have left on these grounds, among others. But i think most are wise enough to know that no party has all the answers. Rather, we tend to look to individuals. Obama is one such rising person. I love what my wife said the other day: that although Obama may be quite liberal politically, far more so than the Clintons, for e.g., he is, however, morally centrist--commited to one wife, unapologetically Christian, and so on. He's earned the respect of many outspoken conservatives adn coservative wonks. Just the other day I heard Pat Buchanan even, a very isolationsistic Catholic, praise him as a "good man." Hisprasie continued unfettered. And so, among many conservative friends we see a willingness, if not embrace to Barack and (importantly) Michelle too. They simply come across as a genuinely good couple. I've heard Michelle speak many times on C-SPAN in her more down home manner and I could listen to her all day! I totally connect with her and the fact she is sensitive to people's plights, particualrly those who have been born into harder circumstance. As political videos goes, I love this one. Differnt. Clever. Yes, it moves! OK, so maybe it's far too much 'feel good' sentiment but after the cynicism of the recent decade of polarization (something the Clintons excelled at), the Obamas' voice is a welcome, needed relief. To Tia’s point: I guess it depends on where you live! If in the South, an evnagelical is, yes, very likely to be a social conservative but also a registered Democrat! I suspect the reason so many evangelicals are Republican is not so much the GOP itself as much as a branch of it embraces social conservativism and there simply isn’t a conservative party. In the Republican party there is room for debate on, say, the abortion issue–one can be like Swarzneggar, A “pro-choice” republican and still become Governor, whereas in the Dem party there is absolutely no platform for pro-life and thus many of us former Democrats have left on these grounds, among others. But i think most are wise enough to know that no party has all the answers. Rather, we tend to look to individuals. Obama is one such rising person.

I love what my wife said the other day: that although Obama may be quite liberal politically, far more so than the Clintons, for e.g., he is, however, morally centrist–commited to one wife, unapologetically Christian, and so on. He’s earned the respect of many outspoken conservatives adn coservative wonks. Just the other day I heard Pat Buchanan even, a very isolationsistic Catholic, praise him as a “good man.” Hisprasie continued unfettered. And so, among many conservative friends we see a willingness, if not embrace to Barack and (importantly) Michelle too. They simply come across as a genuinely good couple. I’ve heard Michelle speak many times on C-SPAN in her more down home manner and I could listen to her all day! I totally connect with her and the fact she is sensitive to people’s plights, particualrly those who have been born into harder circumstance.

As political videos goes, I love this one. Differnt. Clever. Yes, it moves! OK, so maybe it’s far too much ‘feel good’ sentiment but after the cynicism of the recent decade of polarization (something the Clintons excelled at), the Obamas’ voice is a welcome, needed relief.

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