Letters to the Editor
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You're right, they're both slick
...but he's better at it than she is. She has all the pieces that he does, but he puts them together better because he has a more natural talent for politics. That doesn't mean he's not a politician. Anyone thinks he's a hero riding in on horseback is going to be every bit as disappointed as we all were in Bill Clinton. Remember '92? That was all about "Oh, boy, the Baby Boomers, the 60s generation has finally come of age, this is going to be paradigm-shifting." He was supposed to be the New Third Way. And what happened? He completely gutted the welfare system, sold out the gay community six ways to Sunday, the floor dropped out from under progressive politics and thought in America AND the Democrats lost Congress. In fact, anyone who even thinks today that JFK was a hero riding in on horseback is not bearing in mind that we have no idea what his presidency would have looked like and what things he might have mucked up had he lived long enough. I don't think Obama is the Second Coming, I just think he's a fresh face with a lot of really good ideas and a JFK, Bill-Clinton-level political talent and charisma.
And why do you think he ran for President this year instead of spending another term in the Senate? We went through this over Kerry in 2004: no good can come of spending too much time in the Senate. At least we're up against another Senator with an even longer track record. Whatever happened to our strong Democratic governors? (Well, I guess we lost Mark Warner--boy, THAT would have made for an interesting race). I still have my eye on Sebelius and Napolitano.