Ok, I just got in my order from Democratic Stuff, so I am ready to do a quick contest. To play, you must post a comment, question for me or statement about why you are voting for Obama in my comments section by 2:30 eastern time Tuesday Sept.23.
When the contest ends, I will have the girls select one lucky winner for a free, all shipping expenses paid “Bloggers for Obama” button. (I will number the comments and then put them in a hat or something).
If you are not a blogger, I will make the ultimate sacrifice of allowing you to select from one of the four other funny Obama buttons I purchased for myself.
***Please make sure you leave a valid email address so I can contact you to get your shipping information.***
If you are using Firefox, you have to scroll all the way down to get to the comment box. Sorry!
This one doesn’t count. It is only to stop the effed-upedness of the comments.
Ooo, am I the first comment? Love your contest idea.
I’m so terrified by the possibility of a McPalin win that I’m starting to drive even my total lefty friends a bit nutty with my ramblings.
Tomorrow another subversive PrObama commentary hits the airwaves on WOSU 820 as I read one of my latest rants for them.
Keep up the good work – you’re being added to my reader!
Healthcare, healthcare, healthcare. And I’m a yellow dog democrat who would NEVER vote Republican anyway. But healthcare is a big deal to me this election cycle. As is social security, reproductive rights and ending the war in Iraq.
Thanks for that website link by the way!
I am voting for Obama for many reasons, one big one being the next president will most likely be appointing at least two Supreme Court justices and I don’t want anyone appointing justices who has publicly stated he wants Roe v. Wade overturned. Also, I’d like to retire someday before I’m, like, 90.
Off to check out Democraticstuff.com!
Um, because it would be too scary to do anything else? Because gay rights can’t get any worse and I don’t want more war and we could certainly use some healthcare reform in these parts. Also, I’m 28 and I’ve spent way too much of my life actively fearing the people in the executive branch of my government. It needs to stop.
Judges, policy, pretty much the entire platform, you couldn’t bail me out to vote for McCain…..Go Obama!
Where to start? You couldn’t get me to vote for McCain/Palin (shudder) for any amount of money in the world. Obama has a platform that does give me some hope for my daughter’s future, a world where nobody is denied health care, where women have a right to choose, where polar bears exist and where the US becomes a respectful, respected player on the world stage.
Blogless Viv
I am voting for Obama for many reasons, but prior to Ohio’s primary, I decided between him and Hillary based on my gut reaction to his community organizing experience. As a non profit professional, the thought of actually having someone in the White House who actually gives a damn about those who fall through the cracks and are too often neglected or ignored by those in power took my breath away. In fact, it still does.
Hey, you’re talking to strangers about voting for Obama and you don’t have to go door to door! Way to go! Obama gives me hope for the future of our country.
Before Palin, I was voting for Obama because he’s the face of the future of the United States. He’s not only biracial, but he grew up partly overseas and has an innate understanding of the world outside of his own country. I don’t think that’s a ‘nice’ perspective to have in addition to other qualifications, I think it’s becoming an increasingly imperative perspective if we’re going to maintain any kind of meaningful standing in the world.
Post-Palin, I’m voting for Obama because she doesn’t simply lack this perspective, but is a huge sucking vacuum of international experience and, for this reason above all other (legitimate) ones, she scares the crap out of me.
Because I’m ANTI-REPUBLICAN. They scare me and do things that make my life harder and they don’t give a s**t about me or my family, and they call themselves Christians. Plus, what everyone else says.
I’d like to see the country led by someone where bombing and war are not the first thoughts to solve a problem. Palin scares the heck out of me. Along with everything above.
Healthcare. Women’s rights. And the fact that he can speak in complete sentences and doesn’t expect the US to be DUMB!!!
It was the terrorist fist jab that really sold me. Well that, and my habit of voting as a Democrat my entire life..
I want the America I grew up in back.
My MIL who doesn’t speak a word of english so I will so nicely translate “if crazy christians think the crazy christian running for vp is crazy then she is CRAZY”
My son: He is half white like me! Which is really cool…. and he looks like my dad (hmmm? they are both tan and thin?).
My husband: I am moving back to Canada if McCain wins… I don’t want to belong to a country who doesn’t even recognize not everyone is christian or white or if they are not white they are not illegal aliens from mexico…. you are welcome to join me.
and me… I have been saying I would vote for obama since 2004. I think its what this country needs. Something different… plus I heard mccain on rachel ray saying he was 5th from the bottom of his graduating class….. I don’t know about you but I really think we should be voting for the smartest guy. We already did that C student thing and it really didn’t work out…..
Amongst all those other reasons(Supremes, healthcare, intelligence, articulateness, more experience than Palin, not right-wing crazies, etc. etc. etc.), I’m voting for him because the Republicans and BushCo were the ones in charge while the current economic mess was ramping up big time, and no one had the balls to step up and say, “Hey. This is unsustainable and is going to crash!”
I am voting for Obama for four good reasons, their names are Mallory, Rory, Lin and Mason. I’m voting because I care about my children’s and grandchildren’s future, I’m tired of seeing it squandered in every way- health care, the planet, the economy, foreign relations.
Oh, and he and Michelle were great dancers on Ellen.
I don’t blog (not publicly, anyway…), and I don’t want to steal one of your other buttons, so I’m just going to say that’s it’s nice of you to do the contest and leave it at that. =)
I am voting for Obama because I read the books he wrote before he was a contender, and I believe that he is the real deal. I also believe that the other team is a bunch of liars, but I’m voting Obama because of Obama.
I am voting for Obama because I believe that the smartest man should win the coveted Presidency. We’ve had 8 years of dumb, now it’s time to put someone articulate, educated, and compassionate in office. I’ll never vote for McCain because he’s a liar, mean spirited, and only wants to win, not caring about who he damages on the road up. I’m never going to support Palin because she’s a moron who couldn’t get out of college under 6 years, who doesn’t know a damn thing about the rest of the country, never mind the world, and who is a fundamentalist Christian that honestly believes that my family and I should be punished for not being Christian. She scares the hell out of me and there is NO WAY I could ever put either of those two losers into office, which is why I also volunteer for Obama.
There are many reasons too numerous to mention here, but a big reason I’m voting for Obama is because I believe he cares about this country and wants to make it a better place for everyone, not just those who happen to be rich, white and male.
Because he has run the fairest campaign I’ve seen in a long time, even when his opponent made his a deeply cynical, shameful campaign. Because he understands race. Because a vote against him is a rebuke to global opinion and good will abroad. Because I believe health care is a right. Because he made an early call for a stop to the genocide in Darfur. Because his wife and he understand the challenges working families with young children face. Because he knows the world is not divided up into good and evil. Because he has not changed his opinion on nearly every issue. Because he has inspired young people. Because he was a Constitutional law professor. Because he doesn’t have lobbyists in his campaign. Because sometimes he makes me see that Republicans’ positions have some shred of logic in them, a skill I don’t usually have on my own, thus reassuring me he can really be everyone’s president. Because he makes me hopeful for the America I haven’t yet seen, fully manifesting the dreams of freedom, equality, and justice.
I am voting for Obama not only because he is smart, gives us hope, plays fair and is what this country really needs right now BUT if he doesn’t win I would actually find myself praying for John McCain’s health as a Palin presidency is too scary. Please don’t make me pray for McCain…
(I’m not actually entering the contest)
But how about based on where I live I probably already have voted for Obama.
Um let’s see. #1 I have children. #2 I want to come back to the US at some point and refuse to do so if GWB in high heels is VP. #3 Obama is smart. I love smart. #4 if he wins the people I live with now might not hate me so much for being an American. #5 healthcare, the economy, the war, alternative fuel, education, reigning in the power of the executive branch, equal pay for equal work – because, as I said, I have children.
Because he’s hot…duh!
I’ll second what “coco” said…pretty much sums up what I think plus his stance on several issues including foster care (which is important to me), healthcare and foreign policy.
I am voting for Obama because I would sooner scratch out my eyes with a plastic fork than vote for another Republican president, after what eight years of GWB have done to our country.
I’m voting for Obama because he gives me hope for my daughters’ future. Plus, I’ve never voted for a Republican president, and this certainly isn’t the time to start.
- Yellow dog democrat
- stop the war
- supreme court (choice, civil rights, you name it)
- gay rights
- he is smart
- countless other reasons.
I am voting for Obama mostly because I believe he is concerned with improving the lives of all Americans, not just big business. It is time for a change!
Does it count if I say I really really really would vote for Obama if I could. Unfortunately lving in Europe and being dutch that isnot going to happen. But Oh I would love a button….
I’m voting for Obama because I care about the future of this country and I shudder to think about the possibility of another 4 years of crazy, unconscious and destructive policy decisions.
If you haven’t seen the hillarious Juno (the movie) /Palin spoof check it out here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGwfrt3gWdo
Because I am sickened by the attitude of waiting until we are forced to act instead of doing what we can to prevent the issues in the first place. We have the resources, ability, and responsibility to set an example for people around the world as well as here in the states. We need to wake up and care.
Well, I’m voting against McCain for most of the reasons above-healthcare, human rights, economy, intelligence, etc., but I’m still not sure how much faith I have in Obama’s ability to deliver. And yes, I still have questions on his commitment to some of the poverty/class issues that will undermine our country if ignored much longer.
Stanford just released a poll suggesting that 40% of white Americans hold negative assumptions about black people. I think he will, unfortunately, be spending a lot of his energy fighting for legitimacy/credibility.
We’re moving to Shanghai if McCain wins-or most certainly if he dies and leaves crazy christian in charge.
~lmc
I like what Dawn wrote on “This Woman’s Work” in a post, something to the effect of the thought of that pair in office makes my uterus hurt. She couldn’t have summed it up any better in capturing my feelings. I also have gay and lesbian family/friends, and thus those issues are of great importance to me as well. We’ve already seen what eight years of experience can’t show us, let’s see what Obama can and will do.
I am voting for Obama because I am PRO-choice, PRO-LGBT rights, PRO-equal pay for equal work, PRO-fixing our totally broken healthcare system and PRO-ending this effing war already.
I am voting for Obama because I feel that voting for inexperience is better than voting for a broken system. I feel that women need to be respected as productive members of our society and not as carriers for babies. I am also voting for Obama because I feel we do need to open dialog with other countries and to stop treating half the world as if they are beneath us.
He’s insightful, inspiring, thoughtful, honest, and he’s a former law professor (I teach law now). I mean, there’s no way I COULDN’T like the guy. In fact, if he is elected, I will finally move back to the U.S.
Obama, baby. Because we need Change, in oh sooo many ways.
Ok, Comments closed. I will announce the winner tomorrow!