and also a good encapsulation of the differences between us.

You can roll the dice betting on the big win with Obama, and if it pays off, you look brilliant. Not only will you be able to claim a compelling liberal mandate, for the first time in decades, but you'll probably help to sweep in strong majorities in both houses of Congress, with those long coat-tails, clearing the way for dramatic legislative action. But if you roll those dice and it doesn't come up right, you'll look idiotically reckless. We'll have four years of "McSame," and we will have squandered an historical opportunity to start ondoing the damage of the Bush years.

I would rather get four more years of McSame, have the country go further down the road to ruin, and finally have the GOP be repudiated as they were in 1932 than get McCain-lite (Clinton). The corporate wing of the DLC won't cut it for me any longer, as the criminal acts of the Bush admin. call for more radical steps. Even so, Obama is more of a fiscal conservative than Clinton, with her 'no new taxes', her 'gas tax holiday', and her universal health insurance plan.