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Go Home My Endorsement Of Obama

THE SPINE JANUARY 25, 2008

My Endorsement Of Obama

BY JAMES KIRCHICK

I just now received a recorded phone call from a disembodied voice identifying itself as the Hillary Clinton for President Committee. The voice asked: if I were voting today for whom would I vote? "For Hillary Clinton, dial 1." "For Barack Obama, dial 2." "For John Edwards, dial 3." I dialed "2."

The call did not say where the poll was being conducted. Around the country or in the Super Tuesday primary states or in Massachusetts?

In any case, this may count as my endorsement.

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"For John McCain, press 1. For Hillary Clinton, press 2." Which do you press, Mr P?

- teplukhin2you

January 25, 2008 at 5:07pm

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When is TNR going to make an endorsement?

- davidsmith192

January 25, 2008 at 5:15pm

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TNR endorsement? Please wait for the general election.

- fseidle

January 25, 2008 at 6:12pm

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You probably anounced your endorsement to an Obama-backing or Republican group out to annoy voters.  

- Lymon1

January 25, 2008 at 6:32pm

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Tep: I'm more interested in "For Mitt Romney, press 1.  For Hillary Clinton, press 2" -- that would be far more telling (either answer!)

- Lymon1

January 25, 2008 at 6:41pm

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Quote:

Washington Diarist  by Leon Wieseltier

Miracle Man

Post Date Wednesday, January 30, 2008

DISCUSS ARTICLE [49] | PRINT | EMAIL ARTICLE

So far the rocket-burst of Barack Obama has verified that Hillary Clinton has no obvious claim on the presidency; and that liberals, after seven lean years, are happy to lose their heads; and that excitement is exciting. Obama is certainly rinsing American politics of its over-ideologized and over- professionalized (they often go together) lassitude; his campaign has all the ardor of an insurgency but none of the anger. In November it may even be an honor to vote for him. But his astounding rise imposes a certain obligation of skeptical calm. Change: fine. A new generation: fine. A new politics: fine. It is all fine, and it is all contentless. Inspiration without content is a prelude to alienation. Newness is the oldest pitch in American politics. And I am a little sick of hope. ("I do not believe in miracles," says Herodias in Wilde's play. "I have seen too many.") Also I have a queasy recollection of 1975 and the electrifying emergence of Jimmy Carter out of nowhere, in all his progressive pristinity, in a country made torpid by a war and an era of low politics. Why not the best? Skepticism is bad form in a bandwagoning moment. Yet I have a few doubts. I will gladly be persuaded out of them, but not until I record them.

- s4200

January 25, 2008 at 8:03pm

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Lymon, for Mitt press one, for Clinton press two? Is smashing my phone an option?

- blackton

January 25, 2008 at 8:16pm

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Hillary Clinton's voice?  So, you really think it was her campaign calling?  Since these are considered nuisance calls, it may have been a dirty trick of Obama's campaign.  Or maybe it was Hillary's campaign trying to make you think it was a dirty trick of Obama's campaign, or maybe it was Hillary's campaign trying to make you think it was Obama's campaign trying to make you think it was Hillary's campaign, or...

Yes indeed, Marty, this counts as your Obama endorsement.

- jm_rice

January 25, 2008 at 8:48pm

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This counts as my endorsement of Hillary: me and the Times.

- basman

January 25, 2008 at 9:59pm

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This counts as my endorsement of Hillary: me and the Times.

- basman

January 25, 2008 at 9:59pm

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Itz,

This counts as my endorsement of Barack: me and Marty!  You gotta love that itz old boy!

- thejauntyboulevardier

January 25, 2008 at 10:33pm

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I am usually not behind the NY Times, but this once I am with the Times.

Four or eight  years from now if Obama proves to be the man we all think he is I will be voting for him.  Not now, though.

- jacksondyer

January 26, 2008 at 12:59am

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I'm still for Gore.

- fwslusser

January 26, 2008 at 3:15am

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b:  No (b/c it won't do any good and I want you to have your phone).  But if McCain doesn't win the GOP I could think of a few people willing to make a third party run.  Unfortunately Bloomberg is one of them.  Imagine this race:  Clinton v. Romney v. Powell.  

- Lymon1

January 26, 2008 at 9:28am

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j.b.

You were behind the wicked witch from new york for a while and diffident about Obama,--I'd be interested in a brief account of your reasoning.

- basman

January 26, 2008 at 3:28pm

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Poor Marty P.  First unending effusions over that dissembling, Holllywood-admired global warming charlatan Al Gore.  Now support and  warmth toward the empty infantile bombast of Barack.  Confirms that he should be given no truck in his dullard self-important cerebrations on American politics.

- billmartin

January 26, 2008 at 7:10pm

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I am with Marty & Caroline Kennedy in supporting Obama and yes, I miss Gore too.  Now for all those folks out there who feel differently, that's fine.  But just look at yourself long and hard in that mirror and ask why?  Many Cable TV shows and periodicals make their money feeding us soundbytes that will help us present acceptable "reasons" to feel the way we do.  It's in their commercial interests to do so.  But every mature thinker should always ask themselves "why do I feel the way I do?"  The time for this is preferably BEFORE they go on a rant, but after is fine too.

Good luck Barack, we are behind you all the way!!!

- Gavriel Meir-Levi

January 26, 2008 at 9:09pm

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