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So basically I can already tell you the next few days are just going to be posts about Obama since the February 5th primaries (aka Super Duper Tuesday, what a nifty name!) is coming up and I'm sure there are people who read this site that live in one of those 22 states.
Besides, hopefully it'll encourage at least one person to donate online to help him get elected. He's the first and only politician I've ever given money to, and he's supporting his entire campaign through individual donations. Not PACs, not 527-type special interest groups, and not even his own money, but through hundreds of thousands of individual Americans. By the midpoint of January he had had over 100,000 donors just in 2008 alone, and in all he's had over 600,000 people donate toward his campaign, many for the first time in their lives. Which includes the woman he mentioned in his SC speech:
I think of that elderly woman who sent me a contribution the other day, a money order for three dollars and one cent, along with a verse of scripture tucked inside the envelope. So don't tell me change isn't possible. That woman knows that change is possible.
The big news today was Ted Kennedy's endorsement. However one I discovered today that was far more interesting to me personally as a computer guy is Lawrence Lessig's endorsement. Lessig is the founder of the Creative Commons license, and the fact that he feels comfortable endorsing Obama should be an important point. It shows once again that Obama actually understands the issues unlike any other politician. For another example of this, listen to his podcast on net neutrality, another issue held very dear to the tech crowd that Obama is on the side of the public and not the corporate lobbyists. For more information on his tech views you can read his website or a interview he gave on them.
Actually the reason I found those links is because I was reading an article about how all the candidates were vague and didn't have a lot of actual positions on tech issues. And yet Obama has talked lots about it, which is why I really wonder where people keep getting the idea that he's all inspiration and no policy...
And in a side note on the Republican side, you know they have issues when they start attacking each other over how to properly eat fried chicken.
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