Jon Stewart on Obama’s speech

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Obama’s race: advantage? disadvantage? irrelevant?

This is a hard time for antiracists. The most popular candidate in the US is black. Geraldine Ferraro said that gave him an advantage, and she was forced to resign from Clinton’s advisory board. Smart liberal capitalists like Keith Olbermann are saying it’s racist to say that the US would really like to have a [...]

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will white Southerners vote for Obama?

Obama took South Carolina with Edwards in the race. With Edwards out? In South Carolina … 24% of white voters chose Mr Obama. In Georgia the figure was 43%.
If Clinton falls out of the race, Obama will do fine. This may say more about what I read than the truth, but it seems the people [...]

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looking for meaningful differences between Obama and Clinton, pt. 4

Obama has the coolest video I’ve seen so far. There’s nothing of substance in it, and a youtube commenter who supports Obama rightly points out that it should have more ordinary and fewer pretty people, but still, it’s extremely inspiring in an all-purpose way.

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Okay, I can (maybe) support Obama

Obama on Edwards dropping out: here. It’s less than two minutes long, and it hits all the right notes. Now, whether Obama can become a better president than his career suggests, I don’t know. And whether he’s got a chance against the Clinton Machine, I don’t know either.

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two reasons I’m glad Obama won

1. Symbolically, Obama is the anti-Bush.
Sane America wants to tell the world that we’ve rejected Bushism. Clinton could’ve been the anti-Bush if she had been brave in office, but her husband was never brave (gays in the military, universal health care, or NAFTA, anyone?), so why anyone thought she might be better, I do not [...]

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