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Here are the three reasons I support Barack Obama.1. Barack Obama stands for change – He has run his campaign without taking money from lobbyists. You can’t be part of the system and change the system.2. Barack Obama has shown sound judgment – he is the only leading candidate who opposed the Iraq war from the beginning – even when it was profoundly unpopular. He’s the guy who said, Hey, wait a minute. The emperor has no clothes. 3. Barack Obama will restore America – * He will restore America’s rightful place as a world leader in human rights and civil liberties. We can’t lead if we’re trampling on the very values we were founded on.* He will restore the rule of law after the shameful performance of the Bush Administration.* He will restore the unity of the United States of America after the divisiveness of the last eight years.

His speech, 'The War We Need to Win' was absolutely brilliant in hightlighting how profoundly he understands the complexities of the challenges we face in the world and the most intelligent, comprehensive and visionalry solutions to them. For all the other candidates' 'experience', they all criticized his positions until the most respected foreign policy experts lauded them. One by one, the others began using Obama's words as if they were their own. Longevity in Washington clearly did not give the other candidates the superior judgment shown by Barack Obama, on Iraq and now on Pakistan. Over and over again Obama has outshone the others in the kind of leadership we need in the country and the world at this difficult and challenging time.

Note the content and the tone. More than any other candidate, Obama has plans for diplomacy and humanitarian aid to fix Iraq and get us out. He can demonstrate his great judgment with a serious look at the consequences of our leaders' mistakes, not just pumping himself up with pre-canned phrases. He has a sense of humor: the great foreign policy advisers who worked for Bill Clinton, and one who's flown the most missions in Iraq, and now support him don't do it "because I give a pretty speech." I've watched him a lot, his tone, when he's not forced to grandstand in media circuses, is so rational, measured, clearly well-informed - the opposite of arrogant. It's his tone speaking, more than his ethnic background, that will make the world leaders take notice and have some respect - whether they want to or not. I want a wise leader who commands respect. Obama gets my vote!