Comments on: Lawrence Lessig On Why He Supports Obama

By: ChrisO

ChrisO — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:34:58 +0000

“The only thing I do not understand is how any intelligent person could vote for Clinton in 2008 instead of Obama.”

Boy, did you just capture Obama supporters in a nutshell.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:21:01 +0000

Excellent.

The only thing I do not understand is how any intelligent person could vote for Clinton in 2008 instead of Obama.

Obama is 1000 times…. 1,000,000 times… infinitely preferable as President of the USA.

Remaining States: please vote for Obama!

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:57:17 +0000

I thought the technique of audio backed by printed buzzwords for emphasis was both creative and borderline propagandistic.

He weakens his presentation, at least in my eyes, by using demon terms like “swiftboating” and “Rovean.” He’d be better off using more familiar terms that actually describe the tactics in ways anyone could understand, without the background context. This practice makes it easier for his lengthy work to be dismissed.

Additionally, unless he does it at the very end (I got thru about 3/4), he doesn’t speak to whether the sort of fundamental change Obama describes is realistic. I’ve reached the age where I know well just how deeply “fundamental reform” warms the hearts of progressives. I’m pretty agnostic on it myself.

By: Ron Chusid

Ron Chusid — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:32:00 +0000

It is an excellent video. I also have the transcript of the video posted here:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2852

By: Swatty

Swatty — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:23:36 +0000

I can’t get it loud enough to hear.