There is a lot of buzz about Barack Obama these days. The Democrats seem to love him. I'm not sure why, since he doesn't have much of a record except being for unrestricted abortion, and against actually defending us from Islamists. (I read that his father is a Muslim, so I expect he is sympathetic to our mortal enemies.) He appears to be a collectivist on the far left end of the political spectrum, though he doesn't talk that way. Some conservatives see him as the anti-Christ. I don't know about that, but he is not a person I could vote for. At this point I think the the most likely Democratic ticket in 2008 will be Hillary and Barack, but there are a lot of potential landmines along the path to the Whitehouse.

The election of those two would be a disaster of major proportions. I expect that some of the old Clinton ideas of socialized medicine, and prevention of capital from leaving the country would be re-visited. I think the MSM never reported much on Clinton's fear that his policies would cause capital flight. That became a non-issue after the Republicans gained control of Congress in 1994. Sarbanes-Oxley has damaged capitalism in America, and Hillary could finish it off once and for all. It would be necessary to prevent rich people from taking their money out of the country for the socialist policies to work even in the short term. Where would people take their money? Ted Kennedy has his in Fiji, but there has been civil unrest there in recent times. If liberty disappears in America there is not much hope for the world.