And of course, Bush benefited from two of the most experienced foreign policy experts in Washington–Cheney and Rumsfeld, and we see where that got us (and he fired the only good one–Powell. Wait, now THERE’s a Blockbuster ticket: Obama/Powell!! I can dream, can’t I?).

Comparing Obama favorably to JFK or Bill is no salve. At this point, I think this election is about doing all we can to avoid an Obama presidency. Let’s just pray Hillary wins the nomination.

Your comparison is rendered someone less damning by the extent to which the senior manager and his entire department for the last 7 years have, in fact, been screwing up.

Also, I must point out that if he wins Obama will be older when he takes office than both JFK and Bill Clinton.

I’m not familiar enough with Michael Moore to get your reference, but I didn’t mean anything conspriatorial about the advice Romney was supposedly given. If you’re in doubt, I have nothing against .ppt. I just happened to notice that Romney didn’t attack France as hard as he was reportedly counseled to. That helps me preserve a good bit of the original like that I had for the guy personally, that’s all. I think Wilfried is right that European saints are going to be very sensitive to American Mormon political comments on Europe, but the jibes were relatively light, all things considered.

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Re: #38–bullunkum. Romney would have swept West Virginia (for example) had there been no Huck. My sense is that there are a lot of evangelicals who would have voted for Romney over McCain (albeit, cringing all the way to the polls) had Huckabee dropped out of the race.

And what’s this Michael Moorish thing about power-point presentations? Is it wrong to talk about what your opponents are up to–using the most standardized means available?