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• On 02.05.08 blackmailismylife wrote these pithy words:

  It’s the most competitive primary in forever, but we’re left with just two choices. How is it not a bad thing?

• On 02.05.08 Tobias wrote these pithy words:

  Even with the two-choice option on the Democratic side of things, this still feels more open to me than, say, Super Tuesday circa 2004. As for the fact that only two candidates remain, I’m not entirely sure how to address that — the folks who opted out of the race by this point did so, I assume, consciously.

  I should also state here that I’m pretty fond of Obama’s candidacy, so the fact that I’m much more supportive of one of those two choices than I was of, say, either Kerry’s or Edwards’s four years ago.

  (I will admit that the GOP race does still seem more open, though given that I’m a registered Democrat, that’s kinda moot for me. But at least for the initial post, I was trying to cover both parties…)

• On 02.05.08 blackmailismylife wrote these pithy words:

  I feel that the Democratic Party has so squandered political capital over the past 8 years that I find myself hardpressed to believe in any candidate promising ‘new’ or ‘different,’ especially when they’re neither.

• On 02.05.08 Tobias wrote these pithy words:

  I’m feeling a lot better about the Democrats now than I have, well, any year since I’ve been able to vote in the presidential election. Fundamentally, the abilities of Obama or Clinton as speakers is less important to me than what they’re offering as policy — and what I’m seeing overall impresses me more than Clinton in ‘96/Gore in ‘00/Kerry in ‘04.

• On 02.13.08 blackmailismylife wrote these pithy words:

  I dunno man — I don’t see much substance in Obama. I feel like his inexperience will translate into asking the guys who’ve held state power for the last eight years about what to do.

• On 02.14.08 Tobias wrote these pithy words:

  We may have to agree to disagree on this one. Not sure if inexperience is the word I’d use — and even if that is a factor, the advisors he has around him strike me as pretty solid. (Though admittedly, much of that comes from having recently read and been impressed by Samantha Powers’s book on genocide.)

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