Yes, we can.

[innerSpaceman]

Hillary was no ordinary first lady. She mastered quite an efficient organization. In fact, her experience in the White House leads me to expect that her first 180 days wouldn't be the fratboy disaster that Bill's was - of incompetently trying to set up a slate-clean presidential administration.

I think Hillary's experience as an extraordinary first lady with a shadow administration, plus the lessons learned from experiencing first-hand her husband's failures ... would lead to a crackerjack operation from the get-go that would hit the ground running.

Of course, I'm greatly troubled by her floundering campaign organization, where she seems to have the Dubya modus operandi of rewarding loyalty over competence. In that sense, I think she is disqualifying herself from running a presidential adminstration with each passing news day.


But Obama's going to have to start from scratch. And though I admire his positions, I think his adminisration might be a bumbling one.

On the other hand, he's managing his political campaign with admirable saavy.