content: His politics aren't far from Obama's on a left-right scale: IIRC he's a Lib Dem and is friends with the Orange Book faction, whose policies are basically "we're moderate tories and not such dicks about it, and we realise the public doesn't want to privatise the NHS". He's more libertarian, especially on social policy, but basically he's not far from Hillary Clinton or Nancy Peloisi except for being more pacifist (at least for stupid wars like Iraq).