The halo is askew

Ask John Althouse Cohen:

In September 2004, my mom (Ann Althouse) posted "How Kerry lost me." She never particularly supported Kerry, and she ended up voting for Bush. She didn't mean "How Kerry lost me" as in "Why I stopped being a supporter" -- she just meant how she went from open-minded about him to turned off from him.

I'm not usually explicit about my political preferences on this blog, so I want to be clear: I've supported Obama since I watched his announcement in early 2007 with excitement, I voted and caucused for him in the Texas primacaucus, and I'm going to vote for him in November.

So in what sense did he "lose me"? As with my mom's "How Kerry lost me," I haven't gone from supporter to non-supporter. What I mean is that I used to hold these beliefs:

    * I thought he was clearly, dramatically preferably to Hillary Clinton.

    * I thought he was virtually the dream candidate for 2008, with the obvious but overlookable exception of his thin resume.

I now believe that I was wrong. Specifically:

    * He's probably better than Hillary would have been, but it's at least really close, and I'm even open to the idea that she would have been better.

    * I still support Obama, but not particularly more strongly than I'd be supporting any other mainstream Democratic candidate who was the nominee.

    * He's just not a good enough candidate. Democrats are entitled to feel very disappointed about this.

It's taken me a long time to get to this point because there's no single issue or moment that decisively turned me off from him.

Rather, it's a long list of things that add up to the "He's not good enough" conclusion.

He goes on to detail that list.

It's comforting to know that some are waking up to what regular readers of this blog have known for one hell of a long time.

Hope and change people... hope and change...

H/T Don Surber.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Hopefully more than a few of these folks will not bother voting come election day and every American who knows what a disaster an Obama presidency will get to the polls and vote for McCain.