Law.com has a commentary that expresses fairly well some of the main reasons why I like Barack Obama. Here are a couple excerpts:
Obama’s legal education, his law review work and his teaching have produced a presidential candidate whose positions on major issues have been described as nuanced, compromised, centrist or insincere. They might be all or some of these things, but many of them are also legally sophisticated. This matters to anyone who wants to truly understand Obama’s thinking. Legal analysis cannot be adequately portrayed in political terms, and to push Obama’s beliefs back and forth along the conventional left-right spectrum badly misrepresents them.
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I sense a certain temperament and a style of thinking that sounds and feels very familiar. I would be surprised if many of my colleagues in legal academia did not sense it too.
The rest of the commentary discusses Obama’s positions on both the child-rape-death-penalty case recently decided by the Supreme Court and his vote for the wiretapping bill last week.