His arguement boils down to 2 points: change for the sake of change is bad; and Obama is another Reagan.
Without change you don't adapt and America is going from superpower to superpower has been. Obama runs a decentralized grassroots campaign. Hillary centralized. Obama is much smarter than Reagan. I hope he will be the Democratic party's version of Reagan, ie pulling the Republican party to the left through Obama Republicans. In my opinion Obama's just a better candidate than Hillary. If I'm guessing right I think he could be one of the best presidents ever. We're heading into an economic environment where we have the inflation of the 70's and the banking crisis/financial liquidity crunch of the 30's. The ooda loop is broken. It's time for change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategist%29Boyd hypothesized that all intelligent organisms and organizations undergo a continuous cycle of interaction with their environment. Boyd breaks this cycle down to four interrelated and overlapping processes through which one cycles continuously:
Observation: the collection of data by means of the senses
Orientation: the analysis and synthesis of data to form one's current mental perspective
Decision: the determination of a course of action based on one's current mental perspective
Action: the physical playing-out of decisions
This decision cycle is thus also known as the OODA loop. Boyd emphasized that this decision cycle is the central mechanism enabling adaptation (apart from natural selection) and is therefore critical to survival.
Boyd theorized that large organizations such as corporations, governments, or militaries possessed a hierarchy of OODA loops at tactical, grand-tactical (operational art), and strategic levels. In addition, he stated that most effective organizations have a highly decentralized chain of command that utilizes objective-driven orders, or directive control, rather than method-driven orders in order to harness the mental capacity and creative abilities of individual commanders at each level. He argued that such a structure would create a flexible "organic whole" that would be quicker to adapt to rapidly changing situations. He noted, however, that any such highly decentralized organization would necessitate a high degree of mutual trust and a common outlook that came from prior shared experiences. Headquarters needs to know that the troops are perfectly capable of forming a good plan for taking a specific objective, and the troops need to know that Headquarters does not direct them to achieve certain objectives without good reason.
In 2007, strategy writer Robert Greene discussed the loop in a post called OODA and You. He insisted that it was "deeply relevant to any kind of competitive environment: business, politics, sports, even the struggle of organisms to survive," and claimed to have been initially "struck by its brilliance."
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