How did you first become an Obama supporter?

[freshwest]

34. First thing, a 2007 video showing his knowledge. The debates showed grace, openness and maturity.

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Barack Obama: What we gain by stopping the war

We were going through these figures in town halls, berating our representatives about several things. For not impeaching Bush, not trying Cheney, not de-funding the war. Later I thought these things out on my own, why it wasn't being done. The kind of detailed figures Obama explains in IA were available to politically active people across the nation.

No one talked about such specifics in the campaign other than Obama. Except for Gravel and Kucinich, it appeared the conventional Democratic position was not much different than the GOP in urgency to end it. This gave me the impetus to explore Obama and his positions and I liked what I saw.

Until I joined DU in 2010, I was posting elsewhere from the time of Tom Delay's brown shirts arriving in FL to disrupt the vote in November of 2000. That was just before DU started. I was on a board whose name referred to the stolen election of 2000 and we raged together and comforted each other. Then came the election of 2008 and there was a bitter split there.

Then came the 8 years of the Bush administration with a level corruption and shameless warmongering I'd never seen before in my life. I've argued and followed all these issues and the numerical majorities lost or gained with every election and all the right wing talking points.

DU was like a breath of fresh air for a while here and then I saw the same voices I'd argued with appear, all tearing down and no solutions. It'll be hard to win this year, because more money has been pumped into influencing the public than ever. But I don't know how any thinking person could watch that video and fail to understand the caliber of the man Obama is.

Just MHO.