We all know that Trent Edwards has already endorsed Obama but what about the rest of the guys?
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"I believe we really need a serious change in the White House to get us out of the hole that the Bush administration has put us in," Edwards said. "We have so many serious issues regarding the economy and the war and health care, and I believe Barack has the confidence and the calm and the intelligence to get our country moving in the right direction."
Edwards appears to be in the majority, according to my totally unscientific, random poll of 15 Bills players. Obama received about 60 percent of the vote to 27 percent for Republican John McCain with 13 percent undecided. Our poll's margin for error? Huge.
"I don't know if we're exactly representative of the general public," Edwards said, smiling. "I wouldn't draw many conclusions from what you discover from us."
You might not draw any conclusions from it but I will! What about the defense?
"If I know that it's going to make life a little easier for that single mom who's living paycheck to paycheck or that guy who's trying to put his kid through college, then I'm all for it," said Bills special teams player George Wilson. "But I don't want to see my hard-earned money go to bail out some fat cat whose greed ruined a company and I don't want to see my taxes going to U.S. companies that outsource their business to foreign countries."
Defensive tackle Marcus Stroud concurs.
"I might be considered rich, but I came from the working class, so I have family and friends who, like many Americans, are really feeling the pinch," he said. "What swung me to Barack is that he is the champion of the middle class. He wants to give a break to people who truly need it."
Cornerback Jabari Greer believes Obama can repair the United States' damaged reputation abroad. He said he sees him as a consensus builder instead of divider.
"I think it would be historic, what with him being the first African-American to be president," Greer said. "
I think that would show that our country has taken another huge step toward improving race relations. I think it would inspire a lot of people not only here, but around the globe
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Offensive tackle Langston Walker said his mind wasn't made up until Obama received an endorsement from former Secretary of State Colin Powell a few weeks ago. Powell, a black former general who had worked in the Bush administrations, argued that Obama is more qualified.
"To me that's what it's about," said Walker, an African-American. "Yes, it's great that we are at a point where a black man might become president, but that's not what convinced me to vote for him. I voted for him because I thought he was best qualified."
But Walker isn't ready to anoint Obama as the savior.
"People are going to have to realize that regardless who's elected president these problems aren't going to be solved overnight," he said. "It's going to take at least three years to get this economy back in the right direction. And, as much as I might like Barack, he's still a politician; he's still going to have to compromise and give in to the old boys' network at times to get things done."