Voting in '08

Not that I vote, but I wonder if anyone realizes that Obama would likely be very focused on domestic issues, such as welfare and social security and who knows what else, more so than international issues. As a newbie, and as a black man, it's unlikely he would know the dance steps on the international stage. I think he would fail in that way, and in the way that Hillary would probably not fail: that is to maintain the American agenda abroad. If you can't be a good diplomat (Nixon has China, Carter has Camp David Accords, and Reagan has the Berlin Wall), at least carry on with America's Agenda in the Middle East and China, and it's unlikely he will know those dance steps either.

I think it's clear he would be a good face and a good smile, and lots of words, scattered carefully to make as many people happy as possible, but in the end result, who can really back him? Big companies would be silly to, and anyone but special interest groups would be silly to as well. Unless there's something uneducated me doesn't know about how well he's doing in the back rooms of government.