Markos on Obama: Damning with Faint Praise

Markos:

dKos Reader Poll. 12/12 -- 8:44 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. PT. 14,804 respondents.

2007
Dec12 Nov Oct Sept Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Jan

Edwards 39 33 31 39 34 36 40 39 42 38 26 35
Obama 30 27 16 21 29 27 22 24 25 26 25 28
Kucinich 8 9 5 6 4 3 2 2 2 4
H. Clinton 8 9 9 11 8 9 6 6 3 3 4 4
Dodd 2 7 21 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
No F'ing Clue 4 4 5 5 5 7 7 5 8 6 * *
Biden 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Richardson 1 1 2 1 6 5 8 13 8 6 5 4
Other 1 3 6 5 7 9 6 5 9 8 * *
Gravel 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0

"Other" has collapsed as people realize that Gore isn't running, while the support of just about everyone else is fleeing to one of the two potential "anti-Hillary" candidates.

I voted "Obama" this time, not necessarily because I support him, but because the alternatives are no good. Hillary? Yeah right. Edwards? If he hadn't taken public financing, I'd probably go for him (and who doesn't have a crush on Elizabeth?). But I refuse to vote for a guy who will be broke for about seven months in 2008 while the other side beats the crap out of him. I know his partisans have convinced themselves that this doesn't just not matter, but that it's a good thing! Good for them, I guess.

That doesn't mean I think Obama walks on water. Far from it. The guy is going around idiotically attacking Paul Krugman, dancing with homophobic preachers, and while his rhetoric is beautiful upon first listening, an hour later you're left wondering if he said anything of substance at all (and the answer is usually "no").

But this became "process of elimination" for me. I don't "support" Obama, I just plan on voting for him.

And at the end, I'll just be excited to bid adieu to the primary wars and get enthusiastically behind whoever wins, wether it's Obama, Edwards, or Clinton.