The more I think about it, equating BO with Huey Long seems most appropriate. Although they have very different styles, they are both very charismatic. BO wants to spread the wealth, and Long wanted to share the wealth. There are differences. Long was explicit in his class warfare, while BO says he seeks unity. Also, BO strikes me as much more “delicate” than Long. Also, the intellectual establishment hated Long, while they love BO.

I very much concur — or Daley, depending on the level of true internal corruption assigned.

> Obama is also a dreamer whose dreams could very well become an All-American nightmare.

Obama, like all lefties, is eternally forgetful of the paving material on the proverbial Road to Hell. Utopia is for fantasies and dreams, and not for the likes of Men. I hope to find out that enough people haven’t been taken in tomorrow.

I’ve been rather hard on Obama, not only because I don’t support the transformation of this country into a socialist ant farm, but because I see something in him that I’ve always perceived of as a weakness in myself – a talent for taking on more than he can realistically handle. Obama is also a dreamer whose dreams could very well become an All-American nightmare. I don’t trust him. He is too changeable. I realize this is only one example (for brevity’s sake), but if he can’t keep a simple promise regarding campaign financing, I see no reason to believe we should trust him with the economy or anything else (other than training ACORN volunteers, perhaps).

McCain, on the other hand, is an old school realist, grounded in principles that many Americans appear to no longer consider important, such as honor, courage, a sense of duty to something larger than oneself, and, of course, patriotism. He is not without dreams, but his dreams are more realistic than Obama’s. “Transcendence”, I suspect, is something McCain might leave to a higher power while he struggles to improve things in the mundane realm we live in. McCain understands the importance of history and mankind’s foibles and failures, and so he operates from a base of knowledge and considerable acquired wisdom – not from a cloud of transcendent dreams.

Speaking only for myself, I’ll take the ethical realist over the ever-changing aspiring savior any day.

Hussein = Jimmy Carter.