Here are the key points to argue on behalf of Obama:

It’s time we ended racism and elect Obama because of the color of his skin.

It’s time we quit worrying about illegal immigration, instead, it’s time to learn spanish.

We need to raise taxes through the roof. You may have earned that money through your hard work, but it’s the government’s money. If us democrats can’t create a society who depends on government, how will we keep getting elected to office?

Keep pretending that Obama is really just a humble farm boy from rural Kansas. If people are dumb enough to buy that one…they’ll vote for him. Deny that his dad was a muslim and that his mom was a radical leftist. Much better if the masses think she was a simple farm wife who sat around sewing and baking pies and such.

Tell people that the solution to the oil problem is to quit driving. If we all lived in communes and let the government deliver the bread and soup to us, we wouldn’t have to waste fuel driving to stores.

We need socialized medicine. It’s much better for the government to decide who should get treated than doctors. We need a system like Canada’s. Sure…the government run hospitals shut down occassionally – never more than 2 or 3 months a year – and if you’re over 65 you will probably be denied things that would prolong your life by 20 years, but so what.

Now for the key…when we do become a socialist state, I want to be one of the ruling elite, not one of the masses. So who do I call? It’s OK for the rest of you to be in that soup line, but people like me and Babs Streisand are too good for that.

Damn it, you and I should just go and support someone who is totally uninspiring in any way shape or form… Ah, but that would just make us Hillary supporters.

I think you make a very valid point because as a supporter, you don’t want to be so over the top that you turn people off.

But I also think sagereader over at ThinkOnTheseThings has a really good post about why some of us do get a little emotional:
Why Barack Obama Makes Me Emotional: The Case of the “Yes We Can” Video

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That’s kinda what I’m talking about.

Specially here, Angel… I am an Obama supporter.

Can someone please give me a sarcasm check on this comment?

When someone, such as Obama, offers Hope and points the way to a better, brighter future, spoken from the innermost point of Truth or Soul,… the Heart Hears and Believes!

When Obama calls each of us to action and participation to Duty, we are reminded of our Responsibility to our common destiny.

As Obama states so poignantly, “We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!

And of course we’ll take creepy RP supporters… so long as they stay quiet… (twas a joke)

Glenn Beck and David Horowitz were calling Ron Paul supporters potential “home-grown terrorists” and “in bed with Islamofascists” (which was probably a felony given the consequences of being falsely accused of consorting with terrorists, post-9/11). Then the “left” establishment media launched a pathetic smear campaign calling him a racist, and claiming he received funding from hate groups (one guy). This really sickened me, seeing the “left-wing” blogs and newspapers slander a candidate who’s foreign policy and civil liberties positions are more progressive than any candidate but Kucinich.

So his supporters went on the attack. Can you blame them? It wasn’t planned or organized. It just happened. They blitzed the party establishment and media with emails, letters and phone calls. And it worked. They forced the GOP to include him in debates and public meetings, and several national news-people were shocked into “fairness” by the outcry. Beck brought Ron Paul on his show for a full hour of ass-kissing.

I think your characterization of Ron Paul supporters is focused on the nutter fringe, many of whom are too young to vote. If you’d like to learn more about his economic positions, his monetary policy, and why he wants to abolish the Fed Reserve, I’d be glad to share what I’ve learned. Actually they stem from Nobel economists Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises, not Ron Paul, and they’re not trivial. It took me (a post-grad biostatistician) a couple weeks to digest them–with help from an econ professor friend.

Essentially Dr Paul is talking about the greatest fraud in history that continues to this day. Trillions are transferred from the poor and middle classes to the ultrawealthy. The dollar is falling like a rock and the Fed keeps issuing more cash/credit to the wealthy by keeping interest rates artificially low. These are critically important issues that need to be built into the lexicon of all parties.

[getting long, sorry]. Just fyi, I’m actually a Kucinich supporter with an appreciation for Ron Paul. With these two out, I’m supporting Obama…unless they don’t want creepy RP supporters in the tent.

But my big concern is that we don’t allow ourselves to turn into that kind of supporter. The best way to be an Obama supporter is to get active in the campaign, maybe get involved with a blog, donate some money, and get well versed in Obama’s platform, and be able to hold intelligent conversations with folks about the candidate.

That’s all.

Truth is, we’re a passionate lot, and sometimes our zeal to advance our candidate causes us to ignore the better angels of our nature.

And demonize those who disagree. But, just as Obama supporters do not own the franchise on passion, when it comes to painting our opposition as devil-spawned we’re minor-league.

However–zeal for our guy is one thing, inventing conspiracies and calling Hillary a monster is another thing entirely. Maybe if we all took a few deep breaths before hitting “submit comment”…

cheers,

DD