This morning I figured out who will get my vote in the February 5 primary.\u00a0 I realized there was a variable I hadn’t considered – which party will likely control Congress next year and how Congress will relate to the President.<\/p>\n
If we were likely to have a Republican-controlled Congress next year, my choice would be Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 She has the most experience building compromise and working with members of the other party, and her\u00a0closest advisor,\u00a0Bill Clinton,\u00a0is a master of compromise.\u00a0 With a Republican Congress, I believe Hillary would be the most likely to get things done.<\/p>\n
However, I believe that what this country really needs is massive change – change in the way we relate to each other as citizens, change in the way the U.S. relates to other nations as a member of the world community, change in the way we relate to our environment.\u00a0 The candidate who I see as best embodying the kind of massive change I’m talking about is Barack Obama.\u00a0 With a Democratic-controlled Congress, he would be able to use the Presidency as a bully pulpit and push his programs through.<\/p>\n
According to projections, the Democrats will not only maintain control of both houses after the fall election, but may in fact be able to hit a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate.<\/p>\n
Therefore my choice in the February 5 primary is Barack Obama<\/strong>.\u00a0 I could be quite happy with either Clinton or Edwards as President, but I believe Obama\u00a0is best\u00a0equipped to\u00a0bring about change, not only in laws and policies but in the way we see ourselves as Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I figured out who will get my vote in the February 5 primary.\u00a0 I realized there was a variable I hadn’t considered – which party will likely control Congress next year and how Congress will relate to the President. If we were likely to have a Republican-controlled Congress next year, my choice would … Continue reading “Presidential primary: I’ve made up my mind”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}