Charles Pierce has a post discussing why he is voting for Barack Obama and it is worth a read. Here is just a taste...
Barack Obama owes more than I'd like him to owe to the Wall Street
crowd. He probably at this point owes a little more than I'd like him to
owe to the military. The rest he owes to the millions of people who
elected him in 2008 — especially to those people whose enthusiasm I
neither shared nor really understood — and he will owe them even more if
they come out and pull his chestnuts out of the fire for him this time
around. He may sell them out — and, yes, I understand if you wanted to
add "again" to that statement — but they are not likely to revenge
themselves against the country if he does and, even if they decided to,
they don't have the power to do much but yell at the right buildings.
On the other hand, Willard Romney owes even more to the Wall Street
crowd, and he owes even more to the military, but he also owes
everything he is politically to the snake-handlers and the
Bible-bangers, to the Creationist morons and to the people who stalk
doctors and glue their heads to the clinic doors, to the reckless
plutocrats and to the vote-suppressors, to the Randian fantasts and
libertarian fakers, to the closeted and not-so-closeted racists who have
been so empowered by the party that has given them a home, to the
enemies of science and to the enemies of reason, to the devil's bargain
of obvious tactical deceit and to the devil's honoraria of dark,
anonymous money, and, ultimately, to those shadowy places in himself
wherein Romney sold out who he might actually be to his overweening
ambition. It is a fearsome bill to come due for any man, let alone one
as mendaciously malleable as the Republican nominee. Obama owes the
disgruntled. Romney owes the crazy. And that makes all the difference.
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