re: #135 Sol Berdinowitz
Obama had to run because otherwise We would have had McCain/Palin in the White House, fer chrissakes. He was less polarizing than Hillary. Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches.
Wouldn’t have mattered. McPalin was gonna lose in 2008, whether their opponent was Hillary or Obama. It just wasn’t the GOP’s year, the economic collapse of 2008 just being the cherry on top of the sundae.