Listen, the cat's good and all, but he ain't gonna be our nation's next president...no way shape or form. Now Gore/Obama 2008--that's a different story...
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Don't underestimate Obama, there are plenty of feel good white liberals out there that will vote for him because of his race, not worrying about his experience.

Don't act like the Republicans (and you guys specifically) weren't whoring out Michael Steele to the American public, as the black Republican. Saying that the Republican Party is the TRUE home of the African-American.

Did Governor George Walker Bush prove he had the necessary skills to be President in January 1999? I really don't think so.

A little-known Republican, from a small seat in Illinois, won a single term. 11 years later, he is tapped to run for President by party bosses. Why? Who knows, exactly. Would you vote for him? Based on this column, you COULDN'T vote for Abraham Lincoln because he didn't have enough experience.

People complain about career politicians out of one side of their mouths while bemoaning inexperience on the other side. What did Ronald Reagan do to deserve the Presidency? He was a Democratic-turncoat, an actor who won an election... in the state where all of the ACTORS vote.

Judge Obama on his merits. I acknowledge some people will vote for Obama because he is black and they want to feel good about themselves. But a lot of people voted for Bush because he was more outwardly Christian than Kerry and Gore. Does that make them bad people? Not really. Should it have disqualified Bush from being President? NO! You are effectively saying a black man can NEVER be President, because people would vote for him for a reason YOU don't like. You know if Michael Steele ran, and people disagreed with Michael Steele's politics, you would be on this site every day calling them racist.

And I think it is insulting and bigoted to keep calling Obama Barack Hussein Obama. It is a direct jab, saying 'Look his middle name is Hussein, he's a terrorist!' Hussein is his middle name, and black is the color of his skin. Why would those POSSIBLY exclude him from being Presidential material? The only legs you can stand on are saying he is inexperienced, but the fact is you are claiming he is inexperienced, not saying his ideas are bad. And that is prejudicial (pre-judging?).

One thing I find strange is why everybody is referring to Obama by his full name "Barack Hussein Obama". Nobody referred to "Ronald Wilson Reagan" or "William Jefferson Clinton". Clearly, we are using Obama's name against him. I do not think we need to do that - lets judge him on his record, or lack thereof.

OK. His father's middle name was Hussein, and his father passed that to him. So Barak Junior can't be held responsible for his name any more than George Walker Bush should be held up to the fact that he was named after Cordell Walker. Liberals might point out that Bush is a coward-idiot compared to Cordell. Since we don't pick names it should be off limits on all sides.

Experience... who can say. Bush had no experience. Failed congressional candidate and a couple years as the governor of the state whose governor has almost no powers. The most impotent gubernatorial office in the entire USA.

On the other hand, Bush has been OK.

Obama has about the same experience levels as Bush, and is almost exactly the same as that Republican from Illinois, Abe Lincoln, and some people think Lincoln was an OK president.

Hey, scumbag.

We need fewer racists in the R party. We need more people like Obama who trascend party lines, speak truth to power, like Gingrich and Reagan did, and can reach the presidency without having to payoff his old oil buddies.

Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Pathetic. Put the hood on, at least then you will be keepin it real.

So the only redeeming quality Barack Obama has is his race. A man who is such a natural politician, charismatic enough and deft enough at avoiding labels that he succeeded in making the jump from state legislator to credible Presidential candidate (and Vice-Presidential shoo-in) in a few years. It astounds me that Margolis & co. cannot get beyond his skin color. Did you guys not get the memo about black people back in 1964? They have personalities now. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are two of the most "experienced" executive figures in contemporary America, and look where they are today. Humiliated. Castrated. Politically inept. Experience is not the same thing as wisdom. It does not substitute for natural leadership qualities. All Barack Obama has to do to escape the "inexperienced" label is give a few convincing speeches on foreign policy. And he knows this. And he can campaign the shit out of any sabre-rattling fear-monger the GOP may throw at him. Just wait and see.