Election 2008: Some Policies, please, Senator Obama

Another bunch of contests in the US primary seasons, and another raft of stories about winners and losers without anyone actually sewing up these contests. This weekend, Clinton is the loser. Her campaign is in crisis. Obama is now being viewed as the front runner (despite not having as many delegates as Clinton.) And so it will be until the next time Clinton wins a primary again. Then she will be the comeback kid. And there will be endless articles about Obama losing momentum. Which will continue until he wins another primary. And soon on, ad nauseam, until one of them actually gets around to winning the nomination.

However, it is not just the media who seem to be treating Obama as the front runner. President Bush seems to be doing so as well:

"Underlining Mr Obama's effective status as front-runner, President George W Bush made his first detailed public comments about his would-be successor Sunday. "I certainly don't know what he believes in," Mr Bush said in a Fox News interview.

""The only thing I remember he said was he's going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad [Iran's president].""

Terrible, isn’t it, but I actually agree with Bush. Now Obama is emerging as the front runner, he really needs to come up with some policies other than those listed above. The Audacity of Hope is all very well, but he needs to overcome the paucity of policy pretty promptly.

Still, the Obama campaign has a nice line in rebutting such slurs (even if they are true):

"Bill Burton, a spokesman for Mr Obama, said the Democratic candidate "doesn't need any foreign policy advice from the architect of the worst foreign policy decision in a generation"."

Ooo, that’s gotta hurt.