Obama-mania

A friend invited me to the Barack Obama rally last weekend in Oakland. I was already booked that day, so I declined.

In retrospect, I'm really glad I didn't go. That's no reflection on Obama himself; I'm still undecided about him, since there's been so little data about his stances on my key issues. I'm just sure I wouldn't have been thrilled standing around for hours in a crowd of ten thousand people. I guess I didn't realize that the Bay Area was caught up in Obama-mania already.