We Obama supporters get a lot of grief over this movement being a “cult.” We frequently hear criticism that Obama doesn’t have any positions but “hope” and “change” and that his supporters are simply a cult of personality.

A little while ago, a video of an on-the-street interview of an Obama supporter made the Digg circuit. The interviewer was really driving towards specific technical answers, with what can only be perceived immediately as an effort to make a point that Obama’s supporters are all emotional and not up to speed on his positions. To me it certainly seemed to be an attempt to “get” the interviewee, much like Sean Hannity of Fox did recently with a room of Obama supporters. The interviewee, Derrick Ashong from Soulfège quickly turned that around and gave very informed responses.

Derrick recently posted a video covering more of the emotional reasons why he’s an Obama supporter, since he wasn’t able to address those emotional reasons during the on-the-street interview outside the Hollywood debate. Take a look.