Dave Price:

All in all, while I probably won’t vote for him, I’d feel pretty good about President Barack Hussein Obama (and I think much of the world will celebrate an American President with that middle name), assuming he moderates a bit after winning the nomination.

I feel better about the candidates for this election than any other in memory. McCain is a genuine war hero who has demonstrated considerable perspicacity on Iraq, while Obama is giving indications that he will happily throw special interests like the teacher’s unions under the bus if it helps the country and he can get something in return. I’d say we’re pretty fortunate this time around.

If by “feel good” Dave means, “I would feel like this is a person I could respect, as an individual,” I actually would tend to agree with this. Am I going to get de-linked by bunches of right wing blogs now? I am just saying I always thought a Hillary Clinton presidency would feel like a bleeding ulcer. I don’t feel that way about Obama, who’s still too damned liberal and, yes, too damned inexperienced; but his inexperience I would take over her… experience.

And my experience of her experience.

Frank J. (his link but slid down):

[T]his seems about right for Obama: He’s too squishy to advocate violence, but he’s a dumb enough lefty to think its cool to hang out with those who do.

So where does hanging out with ’60s terrorists fall: Is it hope or change?

Actually, Frank, dumb is for sure not the word. Yet have you noticed how just … I don’t even have the word for it (so keep refreshing)?! … Obama is?! (Hat tip to Andrew Cory!)

ABC News: Nader Announces Another Presidential Bid.

Harold Stassen lives!

Politico.com reports on Michelle Obama’s Princeton senior thesis:

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”

I wrote about my “relationship” with my classmate Ms. Robinson a little while ago, so naturally I love this item. It looks as if she played one intellectual / academic / spiritual note while at school — and, it would seem, since then, too.

I also tried to turn my hobby into a senior thesis (we all had to write one, besides the engineers, who actually had to do challenging academic work for the whole four years — not just in the spring of senior year!). The parallel with my earlier piece on Michelle Obama at Princeton is kind of amusing, again, because I juxtaposed her interests and academic performance with my then-obsession with college radio. And, as it turns out, I wrote an awful thesis about commercial college radio stations, which was so bad that now I have determined for sure that I will never run for anything, and neither will my wife, at the risk of someone motoring down to Princeton and digging up that piece of trash.

On the other hand, I pretty much outgrew my obsession when I went to law school. In contrast, Michelle Obama has turned hers — admittedly far more personal, existential and meaningful than making a good segue from the end of “Radio Free Europe” into “A Day in the Life” — into a life.

On the other other hand, if she were actually the one running for President, this particular focus would give me pause. Is the other Obama, the candidate, bigger than this? He seems to be. I sure hope so for his sake, and, if the unthinkable happens and McGovern wins this time, for the country’s. But I’m looking for some comfort here.

Cross-posted on Right Wing News.

John Hawkins emails:  “If the results of this latest blogger poll on John McCain are to be believed, he still has quite a bit of work to do to bring conservatives to his side.”