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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
i think that when you put it all in the context of his wife's comments, her thesis at princeton, his buddy the terrorist etc... its all just as disturbing.
more disturbing still is that he seems to be the best choice.
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He isn't the best choice. His record is fairly untarnished, but only by virtue of his inexperience and lack of a legislative record. I'd say there's a 10% chance that he'd be the best president ever, a 25% chance that he'd be a huge disappointment, and a 65% chance that he'd be wholly unremarkable. It'd be a huge fucking gamble, with poor chances at best, at a time when the US economy is in a serious crisis.
Obama becoming president would be much like Microsoft appointing the fun new guy from marketing as the new CEO. Sure, it could work - but it probably won't.
Hillary, on the other hand, would most likely make an uninspiring but competent president. She'd have a good chance of cleaning up a decent bit of the current mess, and she'd be likely to have a better chance of stabilizing the economy. She wouldn't be as popular as a JFK or a Reagan, but she'd more than likely do the job, and do it at least fairly well.
McCain is a bit of a problem. He'd improve the image of the US abroad a lot, even if he probably wouldn't be as successful as Obama or Hillary in building new bridges and rebuilding old ones. Economically, he'd probably do quite a bit better than Bush, but since economics has never been his forte, it's doubtful that he'd do as well as Hillary. Still, he's more of a known value than Obama, which at this time is probably rather important.