Obama

There should be lit­tle doubt as to whom I would like to see crowned as Pres­i­dent tomor­row (prefer­ably just after 8:30 pm, Cen­tral). Barack Hus­sein Obama, is a man I believe in. A smart, con­fi­dent, emo­tion­ally secure, lov­ing man who will be only good for this coun­try. Cou­ple that with his oppo­si­tion, an man beholden to all that is bad about US pol­i­tics the past eight years, and who would be ter­ri­ble for Amer­ica, not to men­tion the world, and the choice should be clear.

But this is what impresses me the most about him: his raw intel­li­gence, his astound­ing com­pe­tence, his unfail­ing stead­fast­ness. Even The Econ­o­mist, in (grudg­ingly?) endors­ing his can­di­dacy, said this about his sup­posed inex­pe­ri­ence, their biggest prob­lem with him:

“But the excep­tion­ally assured way in which he has run his cam­paign is a con­sid­er­able com­fort. It is not just that he has more than held his own against Mr McCain in the debates. A man who started with no money and few sup­port­ers has out-thought, out-organised and out-fought the two might­i­est machines in Amer­i­can politics—the Clin­tons and the con­ser­v­a­tive right.”

Damn straight.

Vote.