We're all going on hope, and hope alone, over here. You can parse Obama's words from now until February, 2009, and you ain't going to figure it out. To a high level of confidence, we know little about President Obama.

I say this as an elected Obama delegate (to the WA state convention, where I will try and fail to be a national delegate). All I know is that I have enough information on the Clintons to oppose another presidency for them. As for Obama - gotta love his slogans.

My take is that: 1) from an electoral POV we have to go after the local offices, the state offices, and the House of Representatives - maybe the Senate. NBBooks diary on the development of wind-based power generation of this past week is a case in point for the local and state levels of power. The development rate is being driven by utilities and new state laws. It's not nearly fast enough, but the snowball is rolling downhill, at least.

2) by 2011 the shit is still going to be hitting the fan, and USians are going to be very excited in a not-good sort of way. Best to have a good program and organization ready for Naomi's latest set of shocks.

paul spencer