Obama: Post your positives about him here. No slamming of others.

[LiberalFighter]

[tekisui]

1. He will close Gauntanamo, Restore Habeous, End the Occupation

All the while, getting broad support from a New majority.

[godai]

2. Excellent speaker with a vision for the United States

It's always inspiring to hear him give a speech.

[MNDemNY]

3. He's articulate. ,,,,and clean.

[mtnsnake]

4. He's a uniter. He wants to unite neocons with liberals by reaching out to Republicans

[rox63]

5. Fantastic speaker with the ability to bring all parties together for the common good

That's just a couple of the reasons I support him.

[izzie]

6. I feel he has found the tone of what the people want and it fits

what he wants so he would be a great leader. It is a bottom up thing and we get in trouble when we work from the top down.

[milkyway]

7. Politically, he can redraw the electoral map at a time when repugs are at their weakest in decades

thanks to junior. This is an historic opportunity--it's crazy to just keep fighting over Florida and Ohio every four years when Obama can flip red states, especially in the plains states and mountain west (that's why so many dem politicians from those regions are endorsing him).

The Dems have a chance to turn the repugs into not much more than a regional party for a generation.

And that's just politically speaking. Numerous other reasons too, of course.

[Czolgosz]

8. He'd be the first black president (long overdue) and gives a nice speech

[HopeforChange]

9. He is inspiring

[calico1]

10. He has a nice voice. n/t

[calmblueocean]

11. His technology and government transparency agenda are what draw me in

Obama has already led in the process of creating government transparency by sponsoring the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act, which is putting all government spending online in a Google-like search engine, and he's going to do even more.

For instance, he wants all non-emergency legislation put up on the White House website for 5 days for public review and comment before signing. I'd like to see the other candidates adopt this idea, but they haven't.

He also wants to appoint a Chief Technology Officer who would "ensure government officials hold open meetings, broadcast live webcasts of those meetings, and use blogging software, wikis and open comments to communicate policies with Americans."

No other candidate his this kind of commitment to putting sunlight on the whole process of legislation and government, and understanding technological issues like "net neutrality" -- the idea that how fast you can interact with a website should not depend on how much money the website pays to the cable companies. Without a commitment to net neutrality, we could see the online world trending toward tiered internet packages something like this:



When someone asks me "What kind of change is Obama going to bring?" this is some of what I point out to them.

[bidenista]

12. ...

[LiberalFighter]

15. 1 demerit for you

[mtnsnake]

13. What a slow moving thread. I guess the Obamaites never figured they'd have to list positives.

Where is everyone. It's been over an hour and this is all you can come up with? Wow.

[LiberalFighter]

16. The action is about the same for all 3. 1/2 demerit for you

[WinkyDink]

14. I guess he's likeable enough.