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I've decided that I prefer Obama over Hilary. I've sort of always known this, but could never really find the reasons to cement it. David Brooks' NYT article gave me the best reason. He's got a cool head, and he's honest. I think those are pretty much the most important qualities we could have in a president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/opinion/18brooks.html?em&ex=1198213200&en=b4f2a6e89b57c99e&ei=5087%0A

"Obama is an inner-directed man in a profession filled with insecure outer-directed ones. He was forged by the process of discovering his own identity from the scattered facts of his childhood, a process that is described in finely observed detail in “Dreams From My Father.” Once he completed that process, he has been astonishingly constant.

"Like most of the rival campaigns, I’ve been poring over press clippings from Obama’s past, looking for inconsistencies and flip-flops. There are virtually none. The unity speech he gives on the stump today is essentially the same speech that he gave at the Democratic convention in 2004, and it’s the same sort of speech he gave to Illinois legislators and Harvard Law students in the decades before that. He has a core, and was able to maintain his equipoise, for example, even as his campaign stagnated through the summer and fall.

"Moreover, he has a worldview that precedes political positions. Some Americans (Republican or Democrat) believe that the country’s future can only be shaped through a remorseless civil war between the children of light and the children of darkness. Though Tom DeLay couldn’t deliver much for Republicans and Nancy Pelosi, so far, hasn’t been able to deliver much for Democrats, these warriors believe that what’s needed is more partisanship, more toughness and eventual conquest for their side.

"But Obama does not ratchet up hostilities; he restrains them. He does not lash out at perceived enemies, but is aloof from them. In the course of this struggle to discover who he is, Obama clearly learned from the strain of pessimistic optimism that stretches back from Martin Luther King Jr. to Abraham Lincoln. This is a worldview that detests anger as a motivating force, that distrusts easy dichotomies between the parties of good and evil, believing instead that the crucial dichotomy runs between the good and bad within each individual."

Plus, I get the feeling that Hilary can be easily bought. As reported in Michael Moore's "Sicko," she was on forefront of the fight for universal healthcare in the early '90s. Then, suddenly she quieted down. It was because she got a hundreds of millions of dollars payout from the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and she soon become the healtcare giants' new darling.

Go Barack!