Regarding Obama's administrative experience: he's only leading and running perhaps the most effective campaign in my lifetime. Unified message, expanding enthusiastic ground troops of volunteers on task, exceptional use of technology, stunning fundraising, no internecine warfare. Umm, what more could you want from a leader?

In the fall, HRC or Obama would win 90 percent of Democrats. McCain, 90 percent of Republicans. Obama, 60 percent of independents. Hillary, 35 percent of them. That is the only thing that matters to me right now. The GOP simply MUST be defeated for the good of the nation and the world. And Hillary Clinton has no shot. Half the country hates her, and nothing she can say, do or fake will change that, even "getting up every morning thinking how I can change prople's lives" (gag).

that Ms. Clintion is 100% evil and something must be done to get rid of her and Mr. Obama can walk on water and in fact he did and you have seen it. Moreover he can feed 400 people with four fish and can give great sermons about change!

"After 18 debates, $41 million in television ads and more town meetings than New England witnessed since the dawn of democracy" there are several questions outstanding simply because they haven't been asked in debate. Here's one example from Media Matters: "Despite the controversy over the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance and whether telecommunications companies should receive immunity for their alleged involvement, only one question about wiretapping has been asked of any presidential candidate of either party during the numerous debates over the past year. The lone question was asked of Republican Mitt Romney in September 2007; no Democrat has been asked any question relating to the topic." Perhaps it's true that "so much that voters need to know about the next president is unknowable," but that doesn't mean there aren't questions worth asking.

So many of the Obama fans who post these comments strike me as naive. They don't seem to be thinking about what the job really is; speechifying is practically the least of it, and that's where your guy has been kissed by the gods. Okay, my guy too, because if he beats Clinton, I'll be voting for him, but I can't help worrying that he's another Jimmy Carter, who said all the right things, but couldn't govern. Where is the track record that would reassure us on that point? And is he too nice, and if so, who is his Cheney going to be? Presidents have to be devious, and get their hands dirty to get things done (See Roosevelt, Franklin Delano). Is he planning to undo the damage that has been done to the constitution? He won't get habeas corpus back by asking nicely for it. The next president has the worst job in the world.

The first thing as the previous poster said was the way this campaign has been run. It has for the most part appeared seamless and reasonably well organized. They seemed to take a lot of time to get the infrastructure in place to reflect the strengths of their candidate. The second thing is to go back and think about how Ronald Reagan used his ability to rally the public to force an at first resistant democratic party to cave in to his demands. Barack Obama is building and managing that movement. It goes back to his roots as a community organizer. I have no doubt that he plans to take advantage of the infrastructure he has put into place during his campaign to exert pressure on balky legislators.

Judge them by the company they keep. Here's a good run-down of how the advisers and former Clintonites have split themselves between Clinton and Obama:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/documents/the-war-over-the-wonks.html

Democrats run reasonable, expertly calculated campaigns; all the while demonstrating smarts and urging voters to use their heads. Sincerity, unfortunatly, is pretty much irrelevant; poetry silly, of course. What polls teach us is that candidates, in order to use resources wisely towards wins, must cover good ground, the right ground, while appealing to the most representative sensibilities. "Don't Think of an Elephant" (for instance) tell us exactly how this has been the recipe for Democrats' endless losses over the years... well, with notable fortuitous exceptions.

So then, what's wrong with the recipe? Consider this half-baked muffin: Don't fall for "false hope". With that message Hillary keeps depression alive. A depressed generation still, in November we (some of us who care enough) will go into voting booths and cast ballots for the best presidential competence.

Now consider this video. Imagine artists creating the likes of this for John Kerry in 2004. You see? What we forget -- what that insidious cynicism has made us forget -- is that WE invent politics. We make our leadership, not the other way around. Look at the Obama poster art. The passionate artistic expression bubbling up under Barack Obama reminds us of something important, like the stuff of the universe: Myths are the organs of community life; myths make the nation and define the future. America's myths are fragmented, those fragments fragmenting us. Pretty much American life has been reduced to three things: Fretting, shopping, and working. In that order :) (Remember, entertaining ourselves is a form of shopping.) So it's time to rebuild our myths. Watch this video, then see how you feel.

You've got to see this video: http://www.dipdive.com/

You see? There's something to it. Now put the abacus back in the drawer and stop being so afraid. Yes, we can.

Ah yes, just like Obama "asserted" he has passed a bill to regulate the nuclear industry saying, "I just did that last year." A bill that failed. Ah, you need proof:

"But, contrary to Mr. Obama’s comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/pol itics/03exelon.html?ex=1359781200&en =dc32a822488c8617&ei=5088&partne r=rssnyt&emc=rss

That's the organizational ability you're talking about? With his hands in the Nuclear Industry's deep pockets and running his campaign, Obama can do no wrong.

Wow!