To answer your reply: I have thought about it, seriously. I have reviewed both candidates before making a decision. It isn't something I took lightly.

I don't disagree about Obama's vision. And seriously, if he was about 10 years older and had gubernatorial or U.S. Senate experience to back up the vision I would be in his camp in a hot minute.

Also, I can understand the impatience and anger, but I think it is being directed at the wrong people/person here. And I disagree with you about Obama's ability to build consensus. He has not shown that he is able to do this yet in any meaningful way, blowing an opportunity to do it with John McCain on finance reform, for example, and being nowhere in sight on immigration reform, housing finance reform until after the fact, for which he took credit. These examples don't signify a new kind of leadership. He's too young and too inexperienced at this juncture to be POTUS.

I agree that he will be - in four or eight years, but he is not ready at this moment.

Finally, much has been made of his ability to draw Republicans and Independents to him in primaries/caucuses. However, one of the latest Gallup Polls indicates that these very voters who supported him in primaries/caucuses desert him in favor of McCain in a GE matchup - a very worrisome sign (and not unlike what many on the blogs cite as Republican crossovers for Clinton simply to defeat her in November).