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Over the last 12 months I have been following the presidential campaign and one candidate has stood out to me as representing progressive technology policy while also focusing on other needed reforms.

Here are my 5 reasons for supporting Obama:

1. Obama can bring about Universal Health Care. We are the richest country in the world, and it is a blight that we do not provide the basic Human Right of Health Care for everyone to our people.

2. Obama realizes the importance of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the government, and he has specific tasks for this person, which will foster innovation.

3. Obama will ensure Network Neutrality. In the Information Age this is essential for enabling the people to have a real voice in a democracy.

4. Obama will end the war in Iraq. We were never justified to start the war in Iraq (No links to Al-Qada or WMDs) and we are only subsiding government contracts at the cost of American lives, by staying.

5. Obama is the only candidate with Passion that moves me on a personal and emotional level. Listening to him speak at Dr. King’s Church was moving. I feel hope that rings beyond just his word.

I, Brian Rowe, endorse Barack Obama for President.

If you have the chance I recommend attending the “Making A Difference: Using Your Law Degree to Make the World a Better Place No Matter Where You Go in Your Career – and Life.”

Seattle University School of Law
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5:00 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. • Room C1
Seattle University School of Law, Sullivan Hall
12th and Columbia

Judge Horowitz and Professor McKay continue their popular series by focusing on the development of excellent professional skills and exploring the opportunities and barriers to serving the public interest as a lawyer. Working for the powerless and the poor requires that attorneys continuously learn and improve their skills throughout their careers. This requirement is essential not only to personal success, but as much, if not more, for making a difference in the lives of clients and in the community. Along with exciting guest speakers, Judge Horowitz and Professor McKay will explore opportunities for public service, lay bare existing barriers to these opportunities, and demonstrate the importance of skills development in attaining and exercising personal and professional freedom. They will explain and show how public service choices on often unpredictable opportunities and barriers can shape our professional lives – and our lives as a whole.

This is the third in the four-part series “Making A Difference: Using Your Law Degree to Make the World a Better Place No Matter Where You Go in Your Career – and Life,” aimed at encouraging students, lawyers and others to make a place for public service in their careers and their lives.

To view videos of the first two symposiums, go to: http://media.law.seattleu.edu/public/events/events.htm