I think Barack Obama is a terrific guy. I really do. I think it's been a long time since we've seen someone who can so eloquently present a message of hope to a nation. He's been compared to Kennedy, and it's easy to see why.
At the same time. I think that, particularly when a country is in a situation where it needs to see serious change, bringing in what amounts to an almost completely inexperienced outsider is the wrong choice. My problem isn't that he wants change, no, I think he has some (not all) really valuable perspectives - it's that I don't perceive that he has the political tools (no pun intended) to actually get the job done. If elected, I see four years of stagnation and frustration. If a Democrat is elected, I'd like to see it be Hillary. I think she has enough valuable-for-the-country items on her agenda that with her political wherewithal she could do a lot of concrete good for the nation in four years.
Huckabee makes me vaguely uncomfortable. His tax platform (a national sales tax) is one of those "sounds good for about ten milliseconds" schemes, and isn't actually feasible, nor would it solve any of the problems he suggests that it would. His environmental agenda looks pretty good, but I wonder how he's going to implement any of it. I'm not sure which Republican I'd like to see elected, but I'm pretty sure it's not him. The "I'm going to create this malicious ad about Governor Romney, release it, and then yank it from the airwaves all the meanwhile stirring up enough interest to garner free publicity for the ad while putting myself "above" my own dirty politics" trick was - slimy - putting it mildly, and to me it undermines a lot of his own statements about his political integrity, etc. (Let's not be naive here; I would bet any amount of money that it was his intention from the get-go to create an ad that he could take credit for yanking.)
A lot of people say they're looking for resources to compare candidates. This is a good one that I found:
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