Which is ironic, because I think Angry Gore is so much more appealing.

I saw Obama as Clinton without the experience, and maybe a little dodgier. Neither struck me as the sort of leader who would actually, um, lead.

Forgot about Biden, as did most folks, I guess. Not sure if he’d have been worse or not, to tell you the truth. That’s mostly because I’m not sure what Obama’s positions will really be. Biden has a record, and on many domestic issues, it’s not a good one. He’s way better on foreign policy, and on that Obama’s already starting to worry me a little.

Either Dodd or Edwards would have been a huge improvement, though. Or Gore, if he had run. Perhaps I’m just credulous and gullible, but when Dodd dug in on FISA, when Edwards talks about the Two Americas and crusades against poverty, when Al Gore talks about the environment and what Bush has done to our country, it looks to me like they’re speaking and acting out of passion rather than calculation.

Obama is playing some kind of wishy-washy passive-aggressive avoidance game with this FISA “fix”, and it’s the opposite of leadership. Not altogether surprising, but still very discouraging.

I’m just astonished that, once again, we seem to have gone through an entire group of candidates and somehow chosen the one least likely to do any good for us. I’m even more astonished when people lecture me about how I ought to be giddy about this state of affairs.