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Expats for Obama!
I read recently that Obama did very well with expats voting by mail, and as someone who has considered expatriating a great deal in the past decade, I'm not surprised - the Obama campaign is quite possibly the first thing to ever give me hope for my country.
I've been meaning to post asking my well employed USA-ian friends to make a contribution to the Obama campaign, I think that it is really important for our country that he eclipse Hillary for the Democratic nomination, that he will fare better if McCain is the Republican nominee, as seems strongly indicated. Some people have said some bland things like, "His policies are not that much different from hers", but I think that may be propoganda-fed. If you really watch them speak, he tends to respond any time she raises an issue or policy he doesn't have a specific answer for by saying, more or less, "Yeah, I could do that. I look forward to you calling me about this type of issue, or possibly advising me."
If you think that Hillary Clinton is good for this country, support her candidacy for the Obama cabinet. Write to Obama and tell him even that you want her to be vice president, so that if "they shoot him", as 50 cent so eloquently postulated, she can be there. Obama is not an answer-to-everything candidate, he is a strategy man, he is about change. Hillary is still pushing policy - important policy, yes - from ten or more years ago. Sometimes I feel that she may be a better activist and fundraiser than a politician, even. At best, she's bird dogging Obama here and there, and he keeps offering her an office down the hall.
So, support Obama, support change, support the candidate who appeals to well employed invididuals that have left this nation and still in many cases pay taxes.
Support the candidate who swept San Francisco, and lost to a broken "confirm" dialog in LA. Support the candidate who overwhelmingly got dems out to vote in red state primaries, dammit.
P.S. - I love women leaders, and I think that a woman president could do great things for our country, but I don't think that means we should elect the first woman to get Rupert Murdoch's endorsement, and if you think that supporting her is good for women, consider in the future supporting a candidate whose name you knew before her husband was president.
