endorsing Obama
Jan. 16th, 2012 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwHe's been a disappointment in a lot of ways (whatever happened to immediately closing down the
prison on Guantanamo Bay?), but one of the main reasons I voted for him to begin with was my fear that McCain would have plunged headlong into war against Iran. I worried recently that my tax dollars were paying for those scientist assassinations in Iran
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2012/01/14/iran_scientist_assassinations_serve_no_end/
(I suppose even if it was the Mossad and not one of our people, we're still paying for it), but at least Mr. Obama is preaching restraint publicly
http://www.juancole.com/2012/01/obama-warns-israel-against-iran-strike-cancels-joint-military-exercises.html
Also, I want to keep Michelle Obama in the White House. I don't usually watch iCarly, but I'm planning to record the episode tonight in which she appears:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-michelle-obama-icarly-20120116,0,1072714.story
Additionally, Jon Huntsman has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination. I don't agree with everything he says, but he came out against torture, objects to the idea of corporate personhood, and his experience in China might be useful. He seems like the only one of the candidates that is both honest and sensible, and he seemed to me like someone who wouldn't have been totally appalling as president, unlike any of the others.
prison on Guantanamo Bay?), but one of the main reasons I voted for him to begin with was my fear that McCain would have plunged headlong into war against Iran. I worried recently that my tax dollars were paying for those scientist assassinations in Iran
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2012/01/14/iran_scientist_assassinations_serve_no_end/
(I suppose even if it was the Mossad and not one of our people, we're still paying for it), but at least Mr. Obama is preaching restraint publicly
http://www.juancole.com/2012/01/obama-warns-israel-against-iran-strike-cancels-joint-military-exercises.html
Also, I want to keep Michelle Obama in the White House. I don't usually watch iCarly, but I'm planning to record the episode tonight in which she appears:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-michelle-obama-icarly-20120116,0,1072714.story
Additionally, Jon Huntsman has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination. I don't agree with everything he says, but he came out against torture, objects to the idea of corporate personhood, and his experience in China might be useful. He seems like the only one of the candidates that is both honest and sensible, and he seemed to me like someone who wouldn't have been totally appalling as president, unlike any of the others.
