Barak Obama

Watching Barak Obama one cannot help but think that the man will be President of the United States someday, and that that will be a good thing. He has enormous talent and charisma, and there can be no doubt that he is the fastest rising star in American politics today. Indeed, as I write this a few days after seeing him speak at Slugger Field in Louisville, there is already talk of an Obama bid in '08, even though he is still just a junior senator. I'd love to see him on a ticket with Al Gore...

It was worth going to the Dem rally just to hear Obama speak, but attendance at the free event still came at a price. What should have been a 90-minute rally was stretched into an excruciating three-hour extravaganza, complete with a momentum-killing intermission. Jerry Lundergren's Steve Balmer-style screechy speech was mildly amusing, but all things considered we Democrats still have a lot to learn about how to throw a party.