"I don’t see how anyone who confronts Obama’s record with clear eyes can enthusiastically support him. … How can you vilify Romney as a heartless plutocrat unfit for the presidency, and then enthusiastically recommend a guy who held Bradley Manning in solitary and killed a 16-year-old American kid? If you’re a utilitarian who plans to vote for Obama, better to mournfully acknowledge that you regard him as the lesser of two evils, with all that phrase denotes. … Keen on Obama’s civil-libertarian message and reassertion of basic American values, I supported him in 2008. Today I would feel ashamed to associate myself with his first term or the likely course of his second. I refuse to vote for Barack Obama."

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Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic. (via washingtonpoststyle)

i definitely view him as being the lesser of two evils, but more so a President with potential.  still, can anyone argue that Mitt Romney is better?  i mean, with a straight face and without reference fictions propagated by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh?  in the end though, it’s Congress that’s the problem.  why won’t anyone acknowledge or push this?  Congress is where most of the blame lies, and i don’t mean obstructionist Republicans.  i mean the failure of the premiere lawmaking body of the American government unable to do its job, overwhelmed, either willingly or reluctantly, with pressure from outside sources, lobbyists, special interests, staking their futures on monies from these people and then returning the favor.  where are the interests of the American people in this Congressional mix?  they are by the side of the road way back there in the 70s, it seems.

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