Obama vs. the Phobocracy - Michael Chabon op-ed - washingtonpost.com

Obama vs. the Phobocracy - Michael Chabon op-ed at washingtonpost.com: "There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president, but every one of them is bad for the same reason.

Because I have come out publicly for the senator from Illinois, I am often called upon to listen as people offer up -- with wistfulness and regret, or with a pundit's show of certainty, or with a well-earned but useless skepticism -- their bad reasons for not giving Obama their support. For a long time now, I have listened to these people with forbearance and with a sense of duty -- not to some principle of open debate or of the inherent merit in the free exchange of even meritless ideas, but rather out of obligation to the candidate whose cause I champion."

Read the whole thing... and then check out this op-ed from the SF Chronicle written by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.