A New Generation...

Just because I don't think an Obama candidacy would have a shot at winning does not mean I don't think the world would be a much better place with Obama in the Oval Office.

From an interview with Newsweek: "Our politics has very much been grounded in debates over the '60s. There's the '60s, the backlash against the '60s, the counter-backlash within the Democratic Party against the '60s. We've been effectively talking about Vietnam, the sexual revolution, the civil-rights movement for a generation now, and it doesn't adequately describe the challenges we face today. My peer group, I think, finds many of those divisions unproductive."

Amen. It's sometimes stunning to think about where our leaders are stuck. The Bush administration is still fighting against school integration. Democrats are still fighting (maybe) to realize Johnson's Great Society. We have experts on the Soviet Union making our foreign policy. The entire War on Terror is a giant war to contain Soviet Terrorist expansionism, and it is being prosecuted as such. Sen. Obama is right; fresh blood is exactly what we need.