In the spirit of Obama's speech yesterday I am proposing a traditional and honorable resolution of the political differences between Kossacks and whatever they call themselves over at MyDD.  

Let's duke it out.

I am a Barack Obama supporter and I was pretty depressed this morning...

...not clinically suicidal but bummed out and unable to see anything positive about a) losing the Ohio and Texas primaries, b) still not knowing the results of the Texas Caucus, c) starting the daily news cycle with Samantha Power stepping in it and worst of all, d) having nothing to look forward to but a seven-week pie fight that could make Operation Barbossa look like a friendly jostle over who picks up the tab for dinner.

More after the jump...

Below the jump you will find an e-mail that appeared in my IN box today.  While the snark level is high, it is a serious reminder of what is at stake in the 2008 election.  

Let's not take our eye off the ball.

Over the past week and a half the idea of an Obama presidency has taken on a new reality.  Enough that many are looking past the campaigning to ask about actual policy issues.  

Will Obama be a well-versed realist who "would open a whole new chapter in U.S. relations with the rest of the world," as one expert puts it, or a naive idealist who "is enormously lacking" in foreign-policy experience, in the words of another.

The truth is "we just don't know," a third says with a shrug.

Lacking a definitive answer to the big question that President Clinton referred to as rolling the dice on the future of America, perhaps we can learn more by looking at who is whispering in the candidate's ear. Yesterday I published this diary on the Obama Political Team and received enough encouragement (or perhaps insufficent discouragement) to offer Part 2, a look at Obama's policy team.

Apologies for errors or ommissions and thanks in advance for comments and suggestions.

The idea for this diary came about as I was reading about Patti Solis-Doyle and the recent trials and tribulations in Hillaryland.  It occurred to me that there is a ton of digestible on-line opinion on Team Hillary and not so much on Team Barack.

In the interest of fair disclosure I've been on the Obama bandwagon for quite a while now, won over by his message, his charisma and the belief that he would have a better chance than Hillary in the general.  And as much as I've been enjoying the excitement of the recent winning streak, it has also made me curious about the people behind the scenes.  

So I got into research mode and here are some of the results.  The sources are not all without bias but I have made an effort to be even-handed. Apologies in advance for the length.  This is my first diary and I therefore appeal for leniency if I have violated any attribution rules or otherwise messed up.  

Over the jump we go...