Ron Paul supporters see Obama potential
Wednesday, January 30, 2008


The Internet phenomena that is Ron Paul's base considers it's next best option...Barack Obama. Cheers to that. I am biased of course, but given Obama's open government and technology platforms(64k pdf) as endorsed by Lawrence Lessig, I'd say Obama stands alone as the next best choice for Paul supporters concerned about matters of privacy, government transparency, and issues such as net neutrality.

Via DMIESSLER.COM: "Question: When Do We, As Paul Supporters, Switch to Obama?

Ron Paul just took 3% in Florida, and most states have been going similarly. I'm thinking what everyone else is thinking, but now I'm thinking it out loud.

When do we call gg and switch our energies to keeping Romney or McCain out of office? In other words, when do we give up and start supporting Obama?

Perhaps there are those among you that don't like Obama, but here's something to consider: you should vote for him for the same reason you'll vote for Paul even though he doesn't believe in evolution. He's an honest man with common sense."

Will we see a Ron Paul bump in Obama's February 5th poll numbers?

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Chicken it is
Wednesday, February 26, 2003

It seems that I am in good company in my hopes that all of this is some kind of twisted poker game.

Via mefi, John Perry Barlow (Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation) has similar hopes. He believes that Dick Cheney is at the helm:

"While I think that rock n¹ roll and the systemic failures of central planning had as much to do with the collapse of communism as did Dick¹s mad gamble, I have to confess that, by 1990, he didn¹t look quite so nuts to me after all. The MX, along with Star Wars and Reagan¹s terrifying rhetoric, had been all along a weapon for waging psychological rather than nuclear warfare. I¹m starting to wonder if were aren¹t watching something like the same strategy again. In other words, it¹s possible Cheney and company are actually bluffing.This time, instead of trying to terrify the Soviets into collapse, the objective is even grander. If I¹m right about this, they have two goals. Neither involves actual war, any more than the MX missile did."

The rest of his analysis is very similar to thoughts I've been entertaining since the global peace protests of mid-February. The administration's lack of response to those protests lead me to believe, like Barlow, that this is about more than oil, or terrorism, or any other easily packaged and consumed "reason."

Regardless, the final analysis still scares the shit out of me. I find myself very much in agreement with Barlow's final statement:

"By then, I expect to be dancing in Brazil, far from this heart of darkness and closer to the heart itself."

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