Tennessee Blogger Endorsements

Some of the local Tennessee bloggers have been busy writing endorsements for the Democratic Primary.

Left Wing Cracker, who was (and still sort of is) a John Edwards supporter, already voted for the former Senator from North Carolina, but is urging his friends, family, and readers to vote Obama this Tuesday:

Yes, I have already voted for John Edwards, and I have my reasons. However, for those of you who say that you cannot do that, and that it is down to Hillary or Barack, I will say this: it's one thing to say that you know how to solve our problems, as Clinton does. It's completely another thing to lead people to where they want and NEED to go, and help everyone to go in that direction, as I believe Obama has the ability to do. With some trepidation, but with the knowledge that he is our best hope of victory and hope of a better future, I would ask that you vote for the junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

John Lamb, an immigrant rights advocate, has a more enthusiastic endorsement of Barack Obama:

Over time, Barack Obama has confirmed this impression I have. In his stirring remarks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church in Atlanta earlier this month, he called America to see all immigrants not as enemies but as "companions in the fight for opportunity" (video and transcript here). He marched arm in arm with hundreds of thousands of citizens and immigrants in 2006, saying that "we saw in those marches is the face of a new America" (audio and transcript here). A Nashville business leader who met at length with Obama in 2007 tells anyone who listens that the one federal official in this country who most understands the immigration issue as a human rights and civil rights issue is Barack Obama. You start to get the impression that this man with roots in Kenya and Kansas will never try to define our neighbors away.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in his acceptance speech for the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, called for "an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men." That kind of love is the value that will inform my vote on Tuesday, and it is why I support Barack Obama.

Finally, Newscoma feels the Senator from Illinois will be best able to mend bridges around the world, and here at home:

As the democrats who are left in the race basically have very few difference in the issues they both say they will fight for, I made my mind up on who will get my vote Tuesday. Their platforms are basically the same when you break it down to its simplest form. We can nitpick it to death, but there aren’t that many fundamental differences in their platforms.

And that person will be Barack Obama...

...Do I think he will be perfect? No, I don’t. Do I think he will cure cancer, have a chicken in every pot and fight the dragons roaming the horizon? No.

But I do believe he is the candidate that is best for these turbulent times and I will give my one vote to him.

See Also:

Knox News Sentinel for Obama
Memphis Commercial Appeal for Hillary