the positives about obama are for me close to what the other rb outlines.
the negatives have largely to do with my having no particular use for or faith in centrist politics at a moment when, to my mind, some basic rethinking of system priorities is required.
but even here, things loop back to what the other rb said--obama seems intelligent and flexible enough to not pretend that these problems do not exist, which is a welcome contrast to the past 8 years. plus i think he'd get the us a kind of political bounce or suspension of problems from much of the international community and that in itself could be a good opportunity to undertake the sort of changes that are required--even if they do not go as far or even in the directions that i think important (undoing this idiot "war on terror" and rethinking the entire military complex as a way of adapting to a post cold-war situation).
edit: i do not see mc-cain/palin getting this bounce or grace period. i think that will mean that the ongoing problems the us faces will move in a much straighter line than they otherwise could, and this makes them even more complicated to address. it's a downward spiral with them, i think.
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