A reader writes:
As an economic conservative, I’ve been wrestling for days with Obama’s appeal to me. The qualities he has that I keep returning to are: honesty and clarity, and therefore a tendency toward transparency of government. As shown in his debate response on the carbon tax issue, the man refuses to condescend to the right by hedging or qualifying his point of view. While I do disagree with Obama on practically every issue (with the noted exception of the Iraq war), I also believe that if he’s elected and manages to see his mandate through, America won’t have been hoodwinked into its future. We will have chosen it with open eyes.
Contrast that to Clinton’s "hard work" — her euphemism for politics as a dirty game in which she must attempt to smuggle in her policies behind our backs. That is the politics she would practice in office, and that is the chief reason she is much less appealing to me and others like me. I’m still not sure whether I would vote for Obama in a general election (I only know that I would vote for any Democrat against Huckabee), but I do like him a hell of a lot for being straightforward with me.
The Dish 