• heading home after a good day at work. it’s been a long month with one project winding down. good news: another is ramping up. NRFTW. #
• up. not yet at ‘em. #
• ok. now i’m at em. and i’m work casting. http://ustream.tv/channel/reidc-live #
• Busted out of work early to go study some nihongo. Damn this blackberry and its lack of support for doublebyte characters. #
• Things I like about the shirt I’m wearing: I wore it to my cousin’s wedding. I wore it on the first date with my wife. All buttons r originl #

Here’s the reason I don’t want Hillary Clinton to be the next president:

“A Clinton win in November means the nation will have an unelected, unofficial, but nonetheless true co-presidency.” Newsweek, 2/4/08, p26

No, I don’t dislike Bill.  And I don’t even dislike Hillary, although I’ll admit that she’s polarizing and that she’s had many far from stellar moments. (Haven’t we all? Yes, but we’re not all competing for a chance at The Ring of Power.)

The main reason is this: I don’t want another dynastic presidency.  Dynasties have their role, but they are generally more about feeding the beast — conserving themselves — than helping the people (that’s us), and the presidency should be free of them.  Although I’m a fan of Bill’s (broadly speaking), eight years was enough.

“Clinton may be honored around the world as a statesman. But to say that he misses the raw power of the presidency is an understatement.” (same Newsweek, next page)

Electing Hillary won’t magically bring us back to some back pre-George days of economic security and almost balanced budgets. Any suggestion that a vote for her is all that’s needed to put a chicken in every pot (and CSCO in every 401k) is a damned lie.

Electing Hillary will simply concentrate power back in the hands of a group of people, known commodities, and we’ll all go down a familiar polarizing path.

I’d say “Vote Kucinich” if he was still in the race.  He’s not and although I like Edwards I don’t think he’s got the organizational cahones to make it happen.

So I’ll just say, “Vote Obama.”  He probably won’t be perfect.  But he also won’t be pigeonholed and defensive and hamstrung by his own history right out of the gate.