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Political Endorsements

Posted by John on February 5th, 2008 at 7:53 am · 6 Comments

Feel free to use the comments of this Super Tuesday post to add your endorsements (including links back to your own blog posts), for whichever candidate. Yes, yes, even Mitt Romney. I know it’s hard, but please refrain from criticizing any candidates in this comments section–we’ll save that for another post.

I’m happy to point you to endorsements for Obama from some of my favorite people:

And here are some atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have endorsed Obama (or at least written positive articles about him):

John Scalzi at Whatever

vjack at Atheist Revolution

Hemant at Friendly Atheist

Zach Alexander

It’s good to hear that my third favorite paper (after the Gray Lady and the WaPo) is endorsing Obama as well.

Finally, here’s an article that fellow Asian Americans might appreciate.

And whatever you do and whomever you support, if you’ve a primary or caucus in your state today, get your ass out there and vote!

Tags: Atheism · Politics

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Jeff // Feb 5, 2008 at 11:26 am

    I like Obama and voted for him in the primary. However, my libertarian side really likes Ron Paul. I just wish he had some sort of chance. If he were the GOP candidate, I would probably vote Republican (however, I would then leave the polling station and throw up :) ).

  • 2 Mark J. Seydel // Feb 5, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Why do I get the impression that atheist are voting for a candidate because they are atheist. That would be insane. It’s suppose to be what’s best for America.

    I am an atheist and support Ron Paul because the man is radical yet makes sense. This country is truly fucked and we don’t need another party ass kissing candidate in office.

  • 3 Kevin // Feb 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    I don’t know why you get that impression – I don’t imagine it to be true (or am I missing something?). As far as I’m concerned, the only thing atheists have in common is their disbelief. This disbelief wouldn’t lead them to vote for one candidate over the other, would it? All I’m saying is that if there is an atheist bandwagon I want a memo.

  • 4 John // Feb 5, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Kevin and Mark, I think there are some issues that are common to many freethinkers in the U.S., including emphasis on church-state separation (especially in the wake of 8 years of domination of the executive by the religious right, and its infiltration into the justice system) and on scientifically-grounded policies and government support for science education and research.

    Plus, this is a skeptically-themed blog, so I made my case by pointing to people that many MoF readers respect and admire.

    One final note: “party ass kissing candidate” qualifies of criticism of other candidates, which I asked people to refrain from in this post. I let Mark slide, but I hope the rest of you will respect my guidelines for this post.

  • 5 Lessie // Feb 5, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    I went to my party’s caucus and voted for Hillary. I just really like her health care plan. If Obama turns out to be the candidate, I’ll happily vote for him though.

    By the way, caucusing is a blast. I’d never been to one before.

  • 6 xJane // Feb 6, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    …is Obama an atheist? If so, people are gonna be really pissed when they find out. My candidate of choice is still Dennis Kucinich. But I’m not allowed to vote in the democratic primary. A true green’s green; I’ve no idea why he’s a democrat, but I guess it got him that much closer to getting votes.

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