The single greatest advantage Obama has is his temperament and personality. He is one 'cool, calm, and collected' guy, who also has this intuitive sense of vision that allows him to see things in wholes. These traits, which seem to me to be gifts given rather than skills developed, have enabled him to defeat the fabled Clinton machine, and have him on the verge of defeating the dreaded Republican machine.
The very same traits are the things, along with his intellect, his listening and reconciling skills, and his centrist, pragmatic approach, that I believe will allow him to govern as President with excellence and good results. (His present policy prescriptions are, in this sense, much less important as a reason to vote for him, because they will almost certainly change after he gets to the White House.)
I feel fairly confident that Obama will win this year, because it just seems that everything is coming into place for this. But if it doesn't happen, heaven help us, because there is going to be the biggest sense of disappointment and even despair on the part of many millions of people that we have ever seen. And I have absolutely no idea what the result of that might be.
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