The resume

Here’s the resume:

45 year old male.

Columbia University graduate

Worked with a Church-based group in a poor neighborhood.

Harvard Law School graduate, President of Harvard Law Review

Seven years in the Illinois State Senate, focusing on Earned Income Tax Credit, early childhood education programs, and videotaping confessions in capital crime case.

One year in the United States Senate, where he co-sponsored a bill for an online budget database.

Those are the tangible accomplishments. Here are the less tangible ones:

Photogenic.

Raised by a single mother.

Mixed race.

A good speaker.

Anti-Iraq War

Is willing to admit that he inhaled.

Would you elect this man to run your country during a time of active and covert warfare against your country? I wouldn’t. But then again, as I’ve matured, I’ve left the party of my youth and moved to the conservative side of the political spectrum.

If you’re a Democrat, however, you’re all a’twitter about this inexperienced, untried, pretty man:

Senator Barack Obama’s announcement that he might run for president is altering the early dynamics of the 2008 Democratic nominating contest. The move has created complications for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she steps up her own preparations and is posing a threat to lesser-known Democrats trying to position themselves as alternatives to Mrs. Clinton, Democrats said Sunday.

The declaration six weeks ago by Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, has set off a surge of interest in Democratic circles, which party officials expect will only be fueled in the coming week as Mr. Obama prepares for a day of campaignlike events in New Hampshire next Sunday.

At the least, Mr. Obama’s very high-profile explorations have contributed to a quickening of the pace across the 2008 Democratic field. On Sunday, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana said that he would create a presidential exploratory committee this week. And Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa went so far as to announce his candidacy two years before Election Day, in what his aides said was a calculated strategy to grab a moment of attention before Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton blot out the sun.

The Dems must be really worried about a Hillary candidacy if they can get excited about an Obama one. As it is, Obama’s only virtue right now is that he doesn’t have a track record sufficient to revolt those who actually think about politics. The question then becomes whether the media can, for two years, pump so much effort into this man that he actually looks as if he has heft.

UPDATE:  Whatever Soros is for, I’m against it.  Okay, that’s not entirely accurate, but it does describe the deep distaste I feel for Soros’ political views and ideology.  And this means that, since Barack’s meeting with Soros, I suddenly know a whole bunch of potentially distasteful stuff about Obama’s own political ideology.

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