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23

Call for submissions: What are some of the 57 reasons to vote Obama-Biden?

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Readers may recall that in the 2006 election cycle, I wrote the 57 Reasons to Vote No on Issue 3, aka Ohio Learn and Earn* – aka a horrific effort to legalize gambling by leading with an education-funding package. I can’t say whether it was a success as far as an effort by one person to expose why the proposed constitutional amendment sucked, but I do know that a few minds were changed, though not all.

Most importantly, there was excellent debate that rarely if ever devolved into personal attacks.

So let’s have it – what are some of your ideas for a 57 reasons to vote for Obama-Biden? The countdown will start on Tuesday, September 9th. Probably best to e-mail them, for the surprise element, but you can leave ideas in the comments too.  I promise to give attribution.

Also – if anyone is techie enough, maybe we can do a widget for the reasons that would scroll them in a sidebar?

Sigh. I love it when I can really feel support for something. Don’t you?

*That link will take you to an easy to follow list of 48 reasons, but this link will get you to all 57, though it’s not as nice a presentation.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:03 am August 23rd, 2008 in Announcements, Barack Obama, Blogging, Elections, Joe Biden, Obama-Biden57, Politics, Writing | 3 Comments 

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23

Biden! Yes! Did the Happy Dance at 8:01am

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Because I was in Shabbos mode throughout the late afternoon and evening and refused to turn on my computer even when I heard at 7:57am that NPR was going to profile the choice, who they didn’t name.  But when they did, at 8:00am, well – I went outside and did an end-zone dance in the driveway, then came back in and turned this on.

First thoughts: he’s great for Israel, he’s going to acceptable to a lot of Hillary Clinton supporters and he’s going to piss off the pro-Jim Webb guys.  He said some indelicate things during the primary that will have to be swatted away and he reminds me of Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s choice of Lee Fisher – which was damn smart.

Here are all the times I’ve mentioned Biden, and here’s why I felt confident in my choice of Biden as president (speaking on the failure of the Bush administration in the Middle East):

Obama simply does not have the gravitas to say that – yes, he can say the exact same words in the exact same tone, but it will not be heard or inferred by listeners the way it is when Biden says it.

But the bottom line of joy for me? I’ve been feeling lousy about not having been more active from the start in relation to my support for Biden from the beginning. Not just lousy, but guilty.  I still feel guilty and will work hard to be sure I don’t let that happen again.

But now – with Biden as the Democratic VP choice, I can whole-heartedly support this ticket – not just vote for it, and I can offer remuneration for the time and energy I didn’t put out for Biden as a prez choice by putting out time and energy for his ticket.

Very happy voter here.

Other voters? In Ohio? Let’s just say that I don’t see any evidence of any other Ohio blogs humming happy about this choice.  But it is only 8:24am.

UPDATE: Redhorse has a perfect pitch post about the wisdom of this choice.

Who is Joe Biden, for those who don’t know him? Start here.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:31 am August 23rd, 2008 in Announcements, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Democrats, Elections, Joe Biden, Politics, Vice President, Voting, WH2008, Women | 14 Comments 

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