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I know the rhetoric is good, but an Obama administration, same as a McCain administration will further partisanship.  Whoever comes into office will have to take a hard look at the budget and realize they are not going to be able to maintain many of their campaign promises. 

This is going to upset a lot of people regardless of party affiliation.  If on the other hand they do keep their promises, it will upset another large group of different people.  Neither of them will "cure" partisanship in my opinion.

As for Russia conducting exercises in our "backyard" I agree that it is a fundamental problem for the next President.  I also feel that much of the reason they are doing this stems back to the invasion of Georgia and the war games we conducted right off the Russian borders as a response to that. 

That said, we have to solve the problem with Chavez before we can solve any problem with Russia.  I outlined some proposals on another thread, but obviously it is a complicated situation.