m & m

...so now I'm 110%+ behind Obama. A few months ago I told you I wasn't too excited but would vote partyline. Well, after watching the Demo convention and the Republican convention I'm totally in favor of Obama. I can't tell you how much I was disappointed with Sarah P. after watching/listening to her speech. I really think she's a woman that carries a chip on her shoulder and I was completely disappointed to see how immature and sarcastic she was with her speech. ...

-m

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hi m,

one doesn't have to be excited about obama to want to run screaming from the other ticket.

but obama certainly is congenial to me. he seeks to enforce a logical consistency among the various things that are known, and always tries to promote substantive dialog to resolve disputes and reconcile differences of opinion. i also very much like the fact that he steadfastly refuses to be diverted from the merits by the various off-the-merits strategems that are regularly employed by those whose interests evidently wouldn't be served by candid discussion of the substance.

obama and his campaign administration deeply understand the significance of the fact that it is now hugely easier to collect, organize and link to the various things that are known, here in the present networked information age. the project of enforcing a substantive discussion bounded by logic has some traction.

by my lights obama is pursuing an honorable and highly pragmatic campaign, one that exceeds any expectations i ever had for a presidential candidate. there are policy issues of obama's that i may not like so much, but all of that falls away in the face of what I perceive to be the all-out assault on reason being waged by the other side. not to mention the rule of law. well, there i've mentioned it, haven't I?