I don’t think McCain can, will or wants to.

So Barack it is….. Go Barack Obama ‘08!

I see Obama as an interesting combination of 5% visionary TD, and 95% pieces and parts BU.

To be a visionary TDer is relatively easy, since our local, national, and world ideals are standing there screaming to be recognized and worked on by all of us. Just pick a few: World peace; Third World development; economic stability in the US; the Middle East; Judeo-Christianity versus Islam… Oil…

A pieces and parts BU type, on the other hand, is cursed with the perception of hundreds and hundreds of problems, only some of which are sufficiently interrelated that common solutions can be teased out of the morass and championed.

What seems worse to me is that the BUer finds it very hard to build his analysis upwards to join with the TD analyst at some middle ground to arrive at holistic, common solutions when they are feasible. Of the many side conditions for such a systhesis, is the preservation of our freedom and liberty, which must rule out authoritarian governmental modifications and Constitutional changes.

The obvious example is Obama’s Change and Unity mantras which highlight just about as pure a Top Down approach as one can find, and just about as vacuous, versus his wallowing around in a sea of other, lesser or tangential problems with only the dangerous channalizing of his leftist inclinations to guide him in a BU attempt. The focus on race, cleverly put in the guise of post-racial initiatives is certainly the clearest example of his BU mindset, and the thousand and one subproblems he is raising in the process, each requiring a solution, but still focused on race is a whole bunch of trees.

The problem set that Obama begins with is not necessarily in the mainstream of our desires, and the implications for beginning with his set and his priorities are to distort severely what most of us perceive as the proper direction for our governance, our taxes, our freedoms, our economy and our foreign policies–in short, the future of the nation.

Most Americans don’t know much about history, and Obama knows this. For 60% of people, “…what it once was” in fact refers to Clinton era times. Of course Obama would never let Hillary run the show, as he thinks he is better than her (Ed might disagree with me here), and in fact he beat the Clintons at their own game. You can hate the current situation all you want, but I can’t imagine that Hilary (with Bill in tow) would be preferable for us.

To get back to what Chuck said, the Republicans have had 14 years of running either Congress, the Presidency, or both at the same time. Only a partisan fool would argue that the GOP has done this nation well with their choice of actions. This is why the Democrats look likely to rule for a while; not so much because they promise to be good, but because their opponents have used up too many chances with the voters.

Here’s the thing Rick. Your guys have literally had almost complete control of the country for between eight and twelve years. The Supreme Court, both legislative branches, and the executive. That’s not even mentioning all the party loyalists in Justice, Defense, and every other department in the federal government.

What you’re looking at right now is as good as the Republicans can do. This is it. The US, in its current state, is the pinnacle of Republican rule. Congratulations on your party. You must be so proud.