ObamaFest

Forget trying to figure out the heritage of a name like Zbigniew Brzezinski.  The former national security adviser (and potential Wheel of Fortune puzzle nightmare) is now a citizen of Obama Nation thanks to his endorsement of the Illinois Senator:

Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the most influential foreign-policy experts in the Democratic Party, threw his support behind Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, saying the Illinois senator has a better global grasp than his chief rival Hillary Clinton.

Obama "recognizes that the challenge is a new face, a new sense of direction, a new definition of America's role in the world,'' Brzezinski said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's  "Political Capital with Al Hunt.''

"Obama is clearly more effective and has the upper hand,'' Brzezinski, who was President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, said. "He has a sense of what is historically relevant, and what is needed from the United States in relationship to the world.''

Brzezinski was born in Poland in 1928, but thanks to his diplomat father he lived in both Germany and the Soviet Union in the 1930's and bore witness to the rise of Naziism and the Stalinist purges.  His family moved to Canada where he earned a B.A. and M.A. before going on to Harvard for his PhD. 

From Wikipedia:

During the 1960 presidential elections, Brzezinski was an advisor to the John F. Kennedy campaign, urging a non-antagonistic policy toward Eastern Europe. Seeing the Soviet Union as having entered a period of stagnation, both economic and political, Brzezinski predicted the breakup of the Soviet Union along lines of nationality (expanding on his master's thesis)...

And so on and so forth, advising presidents, formulating policy, and working with world leaders for the last 47 years.  His intellectual credentials and experience should at least partially offset the endorsement Senator Clinton received from Magic Johnson.