I just want them to change what they’re doing and stop doing these really bad, GOP-inspired things. And frankly, I think breaking our social security system is really bad. Sadly, going to war for dubious reasons isn’t as bad, because we’ve been doing it for so long in so many places; we can handle that. It kills a lot of people, makes other not trust us for obvious and legitimate reasons, and costs tons of money, but that’s what we do. Stopping doing that would be great, and maybe someday we’ll grow up and do it. But it’s ongoing. Breaking the most important social program, one that works wonderfully well compared to the vast majority of public and private programs, is something new. It’s been threatened, but it hasn’t been done (unlike our warmongering). It’s a new wrinkle that would destroy a great part of what we are; it would also kill any chance of national healthcare (and puting a healthcare killer in charge of your healthcare proposals would only help in that goal). We don’t need that; it’s going to be hard enough to grow up as it is.

That paragraph nails why I’m supporting Obama in this election. It might not be a very likely outcome, but it’s a possibility.

It’s possible that Clinton could accomplish something similar inadvertently (if a bunch of wingnuts went a little too crazy and a little too overboard and caused a massive collapse and feeding frenzy), but Obama has a chance of pulling off the real deal.

No matter who gets elected in November, no matter what they say, the first item on the agenda is: maintain power in 2012. (I phrase it that way because McCain reportedly will not go for a second term, but he will want to see his policies continue.BTW, that makes his VP selection a HUGE issue.)

All the Democratic candidates made health care front-and-center planks in their platform. Failure to deliver huge progress on health care in the first term might mean – no second term. So I can’t buy into the notion that Obama is married to a right-wing agenda to sabotage universal health care. I read the link associated with the previous comment, which quotes Cooper, not Obama. For ANY candidate, how much are we going to rely on the statements of second (or third) tier hacks. Regarding a ‘homopohbic nut’ in Obama’s campaign, has Obama supported any homophobic legislation, made homophobic comments? On Social Security, the ‘fix’ I have heard from Obama is to raise the cap which has protected the top income brackets. Clinton has not been specific at all about a fix for the projected shortfall in 2017 (last I heard) when $$$ out will exceed $$ in thru SS deductions. I am open to other ideas, but I have not heard specifics from the ‘experience’ candidate.

I used to be only mildly anti-Hillary. I’m at the point now that I’m not sure I can vote for her even with the alternative being McCain. I can gete past her R-lite votes on defense and terroism issues, and her committment to a staff of incompeent synophants, but now she is poisoning our interparty discourse with the same cynical, direspectful dishonesty that has been characteristic of Republicans for years.

I really don’t want our party to sink to their level.