ezra kleins article on jim cooper, obamas healthcare pointman

ezra

the clinton healthcare debate timeline including jim coopers role in derailing universal healthcare

clinton timeline

my instincts tell me we are going to get shit from an obama presidency.

better than a mccain presidency, but not much.

we could get so much more.

ill vote for obama in the general if he is the nominee, but i am in no way part of the cult of obama and of the impression he is the savior we have all been waiting for.

From the keynote address Presidential National Convention, 1992

One overdue change, which you have already heard a lot about, is already underway. And that is reflected in the number of women now challenging the councils of political power. These women are challenging those councils of political power because they have been dominated by white, male policy makers and that is wrong. That horizon of gender equity is limitless for us. And what we see today is simply a dress rehearsal for the day and time we meet in convention to nominate Madame President. This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

i have been to both candidates websites

i have read the main stream and progressive characterizations on both candidates

i believe we have 2 worthy candidates and i am proud to be a democrat no matter which of these 2 candidates gets the nomination

i have searched long and hard to find what it is that draws me closer to one  candidate over another

i have looked at both candidates through the eyes of imperfection

i have thought what it would have been like to walk in both of their shoes

i have worked hard to drown out the disgusting, sophomoric, ethnocentric spin coming from people on this site who should know better.

i have decided