best.

Usually the Repuke field is appalling, but this year is the worst since, well, 2004 and 2000.

The last President from Illinois was the greatest President by almost all measures.   If he is elected to office, one hopes that Obama will rise to greatness as the last Illinoian to occupy the White House.   The next term will demand greatness, because the current occupant of the White House is the worst occupant since James Buchanan, and that's no mean trick.

I have some beefs with Obama's energy policies, but it's not like there is a single thing about the guy that could be worse than any member of the Repuke field.

As for I am hard pressed to think of a single good thing that JFK did though.   From my perspective, he was a useless sybarite.   If one evokes the Cuban Missle Crisis, one is almost in the position of applauding an arsonist who has been spectacularly heroic saving people from the fire he started.   I honestly believe that with a different cabinet - minus, for instance, McNamara, the Don Rumsfeld of his times - Lyndon Johnson might have achieved true greatness.

Nobody is happy that JFK was assassinated, but he was easily the worst Democratic President of the 20th century.

I do not, for a moment, think of Obama as a sybarite of the same calibre as JFK.