To Neal's original questions:

1) Probably McCain, but my wish is for Condi.

2) For the Dems, Biden is the best speaker but he's old news, look to Warner. For the Republicans, I think they will be pragmatic enough to pick McCain, he is the only Republican that has a chance of getting even one Democrat vote. Don't waste your time on Allen. I knew the guy in college and he is an arrogant jerk. That doesn't necessarily disqualify him from the race but this will: as soon as he starts to look like a contender, someone will pull out the picture (my brother has a copy) of him sitting at his desk with a bust of R E Lee in the foreground and a confederate flag behind him. That will be the end of Allen.

3) I wrote in my brother in the last election.

I think Obama has the best chance of being first black president of the US, may be in 8 years time, as I understand he's too young to be a president now, and can be discredited for lack of experience. Now he got to try to make a record of himself in senate. Then winning US election might be easy (especially whoever takes over from Bush will have a mess on their hands). I don't know how badly anyone wants tot take over from bush in 2 years time to be honest!

Obama sounds too much like Osama :dead: :down: :P j/k

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