{"id":561,"date":"2008-09-18T14:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-09-18T14:16:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:16:40","slug":"id-vote-for-obama-if-i-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypotyposis.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/id-vote-for-obama-if-i-could\/","title":{"rendered":"I’d vote for Obama if I could…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Deciding which of the candidates running for president of the USA must surely be one of the most important decisions as an American citizen can make this fall. As a Canadian living in the US as a permanent resident, I don't have the vote. However, I would urge anyone reading this blog who can vote to vote for Barack Obama in November. I won't attempt to make an argument today for why you should vote for Obama. Instead, I'll simply express my support for Obama and follow my friend Lloyd's lead<\/a> by embedding one of Obama's latest political ads (\"Plan for Change<\/a>\"):<\/p>\n

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Lloyd quotes the text of the speech, which you can find in many places, including an analysis of the speech in the <\/a>NY Times<\/a> <\/em>today, which concluded that the ad \"is substantive, providing a simple, easy-to-follow outline of Mr. Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign promises, but its length and monotonous visuals could lose the viewer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attention.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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