With Warren Buffett hosting a fundraiser for Obama night last, and other billionaires coming to his side, Obama's credibility is on the rise. Once he learns a few good lines about foreign relations, he'll be set; no deep knowledge is necessary (vide Bush, who despite being a megamillionaire hadn't even been to Europe until a couple of years ago!). In some ways Obama would mark a truer return to Clintonian politics than Hillary herself: Obama doesn't draw intense dislike from anyone yet, and is very able at being everyone to everybody, which, far from being a sign of inauthenticity, is what most of us looking for some national unity need. As even the speculative side of our economy tanks, and angry billionaires-turned-mere-megamillionaires vow to defeat the GOP, Obama's Clinton impersonation looks better and better. I'm hardly in the wealthy class, but having lost about sixth of my IRA in the last couple of weeks, I see where the financiers' anti-GOP sentiments are coming from. I really feel for the people who are twice my age, and will now have to work many more years than they had expected....