In the newest issue of the magazine, fourteen
eggheads and eminences wrote short essays announcing whom they'd be voting
for and why. We'll be unveiling these responses on The Plank throughout
the next two weeks. This is what C.K.
Williams, a poet, had to say:
I'm very strongly in favor of Obama, mostly because he's the
first presidential candidate in longer than I can remember who clearly thinks
when he's asked a question, who analyzes and synthesizes rather than traipsing
through a mental file of prepared, poll-tested answers. His policies are
evolving--for me, a sign of strength, not of weakness--and he seems like a
thoroughly decent person. In truth, though, I'd be pretty satisfied with any of
the Democratic candidates. On the other hand, I have to say that, as a
spectator, I'm much more fascinated by the Republicans. Watching those shifty,
devious, unscrupulous creatures clawing at each other in spasms of demagoguery
and pander is like beholding the whole vile, fear-driven history of humanity.