I really liked the reasoning here.
The separation between BHO and HRC on Telcom/Net Neutrality is very persuasive. HRC seems totally a creature of Telco contributions and will give them free rides.

Barack Obama For President




by: Chris Bowers


Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 12:25












I just made my first contribution to Barack Obama, and I did it though the Blue Majority page on Act Blue. Now, I am asking you to do the same, since Barack Obama is the latest candidate to be added to the Blue Majority page.

Ever since the Blue Majority page was launched nearly one year ago,
we at Blue Majority knew that we would add the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee to the page. In my opinion, Barack Obama has now
emerged as the presumptive nominee. With a pledged delegate lead of 162, a popular vote lead of more than 800,000,
barring a spectacular collapse and / or a highly unlikely thwarting of
the popular vote, Barack Obama will become the Democratic nominee for
President of the United States. When he reaches 2,024 delegates, which
at this point requires only 42.7% of the remaining delegates to be decided,
he will control both the credentials committee and the majority of the
non-disputed delegates at the floor of the convention. At that point,
the only way that Barack Obama loses the nomination is if he decides
that Hillary Clinton should be the nominee instead. In other words,
Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee, and it is
time to start supporting him.

Importantly, my rationale for endorsing Barack Obama goes beyond
his status as the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination. As a
progressive, there are two key ideological markers that I believe make
Barack Obama a better choice than Hillary Clinton: the Iraq war and the
DLC. First, Barack Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq from the start,
and rejected the neoconservative principle of pre-emptive warfare as
one of his main reasons for opposing the war. Being able to identify
the invasion of Iraq as a colossal mistake makes Barack Obama far more
qualified to lead our country than candidates who both were, and still
are, unable to recognize why the war was such a bad idea. Comparing Obama's and Clinton's statements on the death of 4,000 American soldiers in Iraq,
it seems clear that Hillary Clinton still believes in the
neoconservative vision for Iraq, while Barack Obama does not. The
second ideological marker is the Democratic Leadership Council, an
organization formed to push the Democratic Party and the national
political debate to the right on a variety of issues. While Hillary
Clinton is a member of the DLC's leadership, Barack Obama has repeated
refuses to be associated with the group.

There are numerous other reasons, too. Here are the four that mean the most to me:

• First, many people have said that there are few policy
  differences between Obama and Clinton, but the truth is that their
  telecom policies could hardly be further apart from each other. Obama proposes exactly the sort of transformative, open telecommunications policy that we need to transform the media landscape in America, while Hillary Clinton's telecom proposals are nothing more than heinous corporate welfare.
  Without a transformed telecommunications landscape, we are going to
  have an extremely difficult time building a progressive America or
  passing any of our other legislation.
• Second, in terms of electability, in order to win the
  general election a candidate must first become the nominee. Simply put,
  I don't see many ways for Hillary Clinton to pull that off. Further, in
  order to win the general election, Democrats will need time to define
  McCain, and time to heal the party once the nomination contest is over.
  However, Hillary Clinton's only path to the nomination is through the
  convention in late August, and also through a intra-partisan civil war.
  In other words, Clinton's path to the nomination renders her
  unelectable in the general. There simply won't be enough time to heal
  the party and define John McCain.
  
• Third, how a candidate campaigns is a strong
  reflection on how that candidate governs. For example, we could tell
  from the 2000 election that George Bush would govern through a series
  of power grabs, Orwellian language, and with a total disregard for
  popular opinion. Barack Obama, by contrast, is campaigning through
  unprecedented national grassroots organizing, speeches that are
  becoming the stuff of legend, and the manifestation of a new political coalition
  that moves us away from the political alignment of 1968-2004. Too
  often, I have heard from the Clinton campaign and its surrogates about
  states and demographic groups that don't matter. Such statements are a
  stark reminder of a recent version of the Democratic Party that takes
  its base for granted, and only campaigns in a select few swing
  districts. We need a Democratic Party that organizes and governs based
  on Barack Obama and Howard Dean's campaign styles, rather than one that
  is based on Hillary Clinton's and Terry McAuliffe's.
  
• Fourth, coattails and movement building matter. In
  both of Blue Majority's victories so far in 2008, Donna Edwards in
  MD-04 and Bill Foster in IL-14, the energy and activism brought to bear
  by Barack Obama were key. The activism in support of Barack Obama has
  the potential to greatly enhance the political reach of the progressive
  movement, and also to provide Democrats with sweeping downticket
  victories. I once called this progressive movement symbiosis, and I still believe it is the most promising path to a truly progressive governing majority that I have seen in my lifetime.

It is for all of these reasons that I am happy and proud to endorse
Barack Obama for President of the United States. I gave my first
donation to his campaign today, and I urge you to do the same.
Thrown in some money for the downticket campaigns, too, since we need
more and better Democrats around the country and since the first
quarter filing deadline is on Monday. Let's change America, and move
closer toward fulfilling the promise of our new political movements: a
progressive governing majority in America. Contribute to Barack Obama today.