High school musical student council

Who's ready to be president from Day One? The Hill provides some inadvertent insight on that question:

In one instance Clinton appeared to gauge Obama’s response before showing her own.

When Bush warned the Iranian government that “America will confront those who threaten our troops, we will stand by our allies, and we will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf” Obama jumped up to applaud. Clinton leaned across Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), seated to her left, to look in Obama’s direction before slowly standing.

The Illinois senator strongly criticized the former first lady last year when she supported a resolution calling for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard to be designated a terrorist organization. Obama supporters and other Democrats charged the vote would give Bush political cover to begin military operations against Iran.

MAKING UP your own mind on things is a trait I think most Americans would like their president to possess. Waiting to see what your opponent does to see whether it's OK for you to do it, too, is just so . . . well . . . high school.

Then again, maybe part of our problem is that so much of presidential politics -- and American governance in general -- is just so "high school."

That certainly would explain how my fellow Democrats got to be so monolitihic about the notion that encouraging the killing of babies in their mothers' wombs is passable public policy.