A country where one side gets 100% while the other side seethes in anger is not a good situation.
Also look at their records. Obama got provisions in the ethics bill that no one thought possible - and which people like Reid and Schumer didn't want. Here are a couple of the very real accomplishments that demonstrate that he really can act as a catalyst to bring people together to do things that need to be done. He did this in Illinois with his bill to require police taping of interrogations - there he worked with the police. (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html This is an important piece of work with real impact on people who are "voiceless", to use HRC's word.
There is also how he went against people like Schumer and with Feingold got some real constraints on lobbying money in the ethics bill.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/us/politics/20ethics.html?_r=2&scp=3&sq=Senate+ethics+bill&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=sloginHe also joined people like Feingold, Kerry, Webb and Tester to get more teeth than Reid wanted into the ethics bill. (
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/7/101110/2068 )
He also brought every stake holder to the table to work out a healthcare plan in Illinois. I give both credit for wanting everybody to get insurance - all real Democrats likely do. Here, the contrast is between Obama who has the ability and the inclination to work to get a solution in an open negotiation and Clinton, whose inclination in 1993 was to work with her person - even keeping secret who they spoke to. Including people in the process makes them stakeholders in the ultimate solution, while bringing in a full blown elaborate solution that most of the Senators had no input doesn't.
The combination of how he works, the things he chose to work on and the success he had are the reasons I support him. I don't see that combination in HRC. Find me any example where HRC or Edwards, for that matter, actually took on the lobbyists or the corporations in their actual legislation. Obama is the real deal - and that is why people like Kerry and Kennedy support him.