You’ll be missed. That’s going to be an awesome show.

(and, fwiw, if an Obama presidency makes life suck for all, I’ll blame you.)

Interesting comparison to JFK, too.

(Ditch the wedding and come to GA on 11/1.)

1. His nature is pragmatic, and his temperament is cool and calm. Those strike me as great general characteristics.

2. I used to detest progressive taxation, but I now respect it and advocate it in the stead of other schemes.

3. I think he would reverse the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strike, which I think is wrongheaded.

4. Obama will end torture and seems unlikely to shield the Bushies from the war crimes tribunals that should come up next decade.

5. Obama seeks to develop America’s infrastructure, which is crumbling. I’ve come around to the Keynesian approach to these things.

6. He’s a transformational figure that will transcend both racial and generational lines. He’s our Kennedy, substituting race for JFK’s Catholicism.

1. While I think his initial Iraq policy was correct, he has not reacted to the realities on the ground. I think he should’ve said that the surge worked and that he was wrong. I’m also afraid that he—and McCain—fall into the false notion that we can fight in Afghanistan as we have Iraq. They’re two completely unalike tactical and strategic situations. But I’m hopeful that a SecDef Colin Powell would solve that for him.

2. I like some of the principles of what he wants to do with health care, but I’m not sure that he’s got a great plan. It may merely be a good one, but I fear that we need a great one. [McCain's is worse, though.]

3. I don’t think that he’s cutting defense spending enough. Our defense spending priorities are seriously out of whack.

4. I’m afraid that he’ll continue the push for home ownership levels at all levels of the economy, which I think is terrible because it slows the geographic shifts of economic labor. Un-/semi-skilled labor needs to be able to move at a moment’s notice to areas where economic opportunity exists.

5. I’m not sure that his education plans are the best. Funding NCLB is not enough.

Ron Paul’s economic plans, however, would absolutely assail the economy. He’s an ideologue, and I hate electing ideologues—I prefer pragmatists.

You have seemed to be pretty much “all Obama” on the blog. What don’t you like? (and I swear I won’t try to get you to write in Ron Paul…)