I was just going to post a comment on a recent diary but something profound just happened and I decided to post this diary instead. Yes, a little self-indulgent. I know. But follow me over the jump anyway.
I was an enthusiastic Edwards supporter and was pretty heartbroken when he dropped out. Since then I have been ambivalent about the remaining two candidates. I like and don't like some things about both. I don't see much difference in their policies and neither is really progressive enough to my liking. I find myself getting angry at anti-Hillary attacks on this site and correcting my hairdresser when she said Obama's a Muslim. You get the picture.
I haven't heard Obama's entire speech but I read some of it last night when a coworker showed me an exerpt...the part where Obama talked about race as a spectacle and the choice we face as a nation to allow ourselves to be distracted or to do something about real issues millions of people face every day in this country.
Tonight I read this diary/article in which Republican strategists gleefully described their plan to beat Obama. They were salivating. It made me sick to my stomach. The article didn't describe anything new. We're all familiar with their strategy. It's the same appeal to the very worst in people. The same effort to expoit our anxieties, hatred, anger, resentment and fear. The same goal of keeping us divided and at each other's throats. Their strategy hasn't changed. I guess I have. Something clicked.
I don't want to live in this America anymore. Since leaving the country is not really an option, I am choosing to reject and denounce the Republican strategy of divide and conquer, and ever so slowly moving towards Obama.
The diary I read tonight is here Obama Swiftboat Diary