Since he announced — seemingly yet again — today that he’s running for president, here’s the obligatory Barack Obama post. (I don’t want to be the only blogger in the U.S. to miss out on this. Too much like being the only Nader in ’08 supporter.)

I don’t have any further thoughts about his candidacy except this one: All the pundits who are saying “it’s too soon” for Obama to run because he’s inexperienced would be running themselves if they suddenly found themselves in his position — at the height of buzz-fame. Obama has nowhere to go but down from here (and I predict that is coming soon); the question is whether or not he’ll go back up.

Aside from that, as Mark Evanier points out, it’s way too early to predict who will emerge from an ever-widening pack on both sides of the aisle — although that isn’t keeping plenty of people from making predictions. My only prediction this early is this one: that the group with the most to gain from a two-year campaign cycle of 24/7 political news (i.e., the media and the consultants who feed them and are fed by them) will build up and tear down each of these candidates one by one. That makes most of the process of picking a president an entertainment, which is also known by another word: spectacle.

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