Why I am for Obama
One of my personal heroes, Lawrence Lessig, posted a video describing his reasons for supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy. I have many of my own reasons for sharing his enthusiasm for Obama, but the case presented here is so lucid and compelling, I feel the need to share it with as many people as possible. To all of my friends and family members and anyone else who is reading this — especially if you have not yet voted in your state’s primary — please watch this video. Obama is far and away the best chance this country has, to change for the better and to lead the world toward peace.
Here is Lessig’s eloquent and moving 20-minute video endorsing Obama.
Here is a quote from the transcript:
So I want you to shut your eyes and imagine what it will seem like to a young man in Iraq or in Iran, who wakes up on January 21st, 2009, and sees the picture of this man as the president of the United States. A man who opposed the war at the beginning, a man who worked his way up from almost nothing, a man who came from a mother and a father of mixed cultures and mixed societies, who came from a broken home to overcome all of that to become the leader in his class, at the Harvard Law Review, and an extraordinary success as a politician. How can they see us when they see us as having chosen this man as our president?
There can be no clearer way that we could say, that we could say that the United States could say, that we have changed, than by electing this man. There is no way we could more clearly move on toward peace than this. He represents the very best of who we are, the best of character, of integrity and ideals. And someone who opposed the war from the start.
Integrity, moral courage, hope, and peace.
