Reply #4: Agree about Obama, disagree about Hillary

[skepticscott]

Obama wants to "build bridges", "open dialogues" and anything else concilliatory that he can think of to say, but the fact that he isn't sane and savvy enough to realize the Republicans have no interest in such things is why I cannot support him at this point, even though I think he is running out of a genuine desire to do good for people. Hillary understands power and that people who have gotten used to having it don't just give it up freely. It's also difficult to support her at this point, since she is running purely out of a love of power. If it did come down to one of those two as the Democratic candidate, I'd have to support Hillary, because any Democrat in the White House is far preferable than eight more years of Republicans, and she is the only one of the two capable of running the kind of campaign that will be needed to win in 2008. Obama is, frankly, too nice a guy for what will be required.