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Yes, I can.
Mar. 4th, 2008 01:00 amI just realized that I can vote in the primary after all. Hallelujah. (There's not a separate registration for the primary; you just have to be registered to vote by the deadline, and I'm already registered to vote.) To clear up any confusion: if you are registered to vote in Texas, you can vote in the primary today.
I'm voting for Barack Obama, for a few reasons. He's more on the good side of digital rights issues; Clinton seems more aligned with the media interests who want copyright law to become even more ridiculous. He opposed this disaster of a war from the beginning, even when it was it was an unpopular stance. Oh hell, Lawrence Lessig said it better than I ever could.
I think it's telling how many Republicans have good things to say about him, even though his policies are virtually the same as Hillary Clinton's. I think Barack Obama can be for Democrats what Ronald Reagan was for Republicans: someone who can use good rhetoric to get people on board to make big changes. That doesn't include the selling weapons to the Iranian government and donating the money to drug-dealing insurgents in Nicaragua part. (By the way, before I looked it up, I had the vague sense that everyone behind Iran-Contra was either dead or in jail. You can't get away with that level of wrongdoing, right? No? These people, who committed felonies, lied to Congress, and destroyed evidence, are still walking around? They have jobs in George W. Bush's administration?)
I'm voting for Barack Obama, for a few reasons. He's more on the good side of digital rights issues; Clinton seems more aligned with the media interests who want copyright law to become even more ridiculous. He opposed this disaster of a war from the beginning, even when it was it was an unpopular stance. Oh hell, Lawrence Lessig said it better than I ever could.
I think it's telling how many Republicans have good things to say about him, even though his policies are virtually the same as Hillary Clinton's. I think Barack Obama can be for Democrats what Ronald Reagan was for Republicans: someone who can use good rhetoric to get people on board to make big changes. That doesn't include the selling weapons to the Iranian government and donating the money to drug-dealing insurgents in Nicaragua part. (By the way, before I looked it up, I had the vague sense that everyone behind Iran-Contra was either dead or in jail. You can't get away with that level of wrongdoing, right? No? These people, who committed felonies, lied to Congress, and destroyed evidence, are still walking around? They have jobs in George W. Bush's administration?)
