I’ve been looking around trying to settle on a way to post more about the presidential candidates — substantive stuff, not just photos of obscene hugs. I thought of doing several posts analyzing the candidates’ positions on two or three issues each, but you can go to CNN.com and find the whole thing. Maybe I should just keep doing what I do and post what I find.
And so, I found an endorsement of Obama by hilzoy at Obsidian Wings. The original has much more with many links, so you might want to just click and check it out at the source, but I found this excerpt rather impressive.
I came to Obama by an unusual route: as I explained here, I follow some issues pretty closely, and over and over again, Barack Obama kept popping up, doing really good substantive things. There he was, working for nuclear non-proliferation and securing loose stockpiles of conventional weapons, like shoulder-fired missiles. There he was again, passing what the Washington Post called “the strongest ethics legislation to emerge from Congress yet” — though not as strong as Obama would have liked. Look — he’s over there, passing a bill that created a searchable database of recipients of federal contracts and grants, proposing legislation on avian flu back when most people hadn’t even heard of it, working to make sure that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were screened for traumatic brain injury and to prevent homelessness among veterans, successfully fighting a proposal by the VA to reexamine all PTSD cases in which full benefits had been awarded, working to ban no-bid contracts in Katrina reconstruction, and introducing legislation to criminalize deceptive political tactics and voter intimidation.