Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle

This is hilarious:
http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/

One could daydream for a second or two, hoping that that link might be the snarkiest political attack of this election cycle. Of course, it has already not been so; Pandora opened her box long ago.

Do I care if Hillary Clinton served on the board of WalMart? Do I care that past POW John McCain talked to lobbyists? Yes.

But do those, and other things, comprise the greater portion of my calculus on who should lead this nation? No, and it's not even close.

We elect humans, not saints. Religion is the venue for absolutes; politics is the venue for actually getting things done.

With McCain, whatever the truth may be, it is his very legislative actions against the pernicious influence of big money and power that are protecting our electoral process.

With Clinton, we have a tough as nails leader, whose health care plan is vital for the health (pun intended) and the economic welfare of our nation.

Although this unreconstructed liberal (me) is for Clinton, Obama could indeed be an amazing option for president, both for the symbolism -- as with Hillary -- and for what he might be able to accomplish.

And anyone who thinks that Obama is all speechifying and no thinkifying: read his single-spaced position papers.

I am concerned, however, that an emotional fatigue may develop toward him, as it did with Bill Clinton. It's like the emotional high of a love affair, until that first day you realize that, hey, she/he has morning breath.

Those who have become so recently politically engaged, do not, just as precipitously, become disenchanted again.

For leadership, yes, moral fiber counts. As does strength under adversity, and crisis management, and intelligence, and experience, and "the vision thing".

So, be inspired, but care more for the plan than the (wo)man.