He's normal.
Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and President Bush on appeasement, suggesting that both Republicans have a problem with presidents past who have engaged in direct diplomacy.
“If George Bush and John McCain have a problem with direct diplomacy, led by the president of the United States, then they can explain why they have a problem with John F. Kennedy because that’s what he did with [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev, or Ronald Reagan, ’cause that’s what he did with [Soviet leader Mikhail] Gorbachev, or Richard Nixon ’cause that’s what they did with [Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung],” Obama said in Roseburg, Ore. “That’s exactly the kind of diplomacy we need to keep us safe.”
Obama called the dust-up “appealing,” after Bush said in Israel at the Knesset that it was a mistake to talk about diplomacy with “terrorists and radicals.” ... courtesy Carpetbagger
Okay, okay, he's also very bright, too, experienced, wise, traveled and a lot of other things we want in a president and have been missing for almost two decades. We've been living in a period of such deep and prolonged insanity that Obama's normality and his firm rationality were probably the first things that drew us to him.
Remember what it's like to deal with sane people?
