in no way at all, does the ability to run a campaign indicate any capablity of being able to actually perform the office. unless, of course, you are more interested in style than substance.

it's not his 10 years of political office i object to. it's what he did, and didn't do, during those 10 years. people have a hard time actually explaining what he has accomplished? what does he stand for?(other than "change", nad what does that actually mean?), and what are his policy proposals.

someone the other day was finally able to provide a list of accomplishments while in office. and it's an impressive list of bill names. the problem is when you start looking at them, of the over 1000 bills he (or his staff, or outside interests) authored, very few were what i would call "good" bills. and most of those were in his time in the illinois statehouse.

i also object to his policy proposals. i do NOT want the government dictating to me my health care choices. i do NOT want the government increasing my taxes. i do NOT want the US to precipitously withdraw from Iraq when we are seeing progress towards what could be a model of government in the muslim world, i do NOT want fear mongering about the so-called AGW to destroy our economy. i do NOT want some naive goof to have a sit down with various anti-American dictators without preconditions.

the more i see and learn about Obama, the less qualified he appears.

Take away B Hussein's teleprompter and cheat sheets, change the subject on him and he's like a lost puppy. Standing up and reading quotes written by a hundred people will never prove you can deal with the murdering Islamic rogues of the world. He'll find he can't BS his way out of some things real quick. Slick Willie found that out even if he does't admit. Talk and BS by Slick with no action got thousands of people killed.

Take away B Hussein's teleprompter and cheat sheets, change the subject on him and he's like a lost puppy.

Scrap, you haven't watched enough of his rallies because he often goes straight off the top of his head without teleprompters. I've seen it. Just keep your eyes open and you will too.

in no way at all, does the ability to run a campaign indicate any capablity of being able to actually perform the office. unless, of course, you are more interested in style than substance.

Maybe you have a point. After all, George W Bush ran a great campaign in 2000 and we all know how his presidency turned out.

yeah, after inheriting a recession, the 9/11 attacks, and hurricane katrina, we've done pretty well all things considered.

let's see....
no new terrorist attacks on US soil
saddam hussein was taken out of power in iraq
quaddafi voluntarily gave up his WMD programs
the stock market is still over 12000
2 good justices to the supreme court
there are other good things as well....

don't get me wrong, there is a lot of things i'm unhappy with bush about, but you BDS sufferers need to get a fucking life and realize that none of bush, cheney, or rove are evil incarnate.

btw, nice try at turning the conversation away from obama's weaknesses. taking a page from his debate notes? and yes, i have seen his speaches and debates. he's an empty suit with liberal statist inclinations.

So the Messiah's views on the economy, tax hikes, Muslim Summits, dissing the military and wanting to cut back on our military overall in this era of Islamofascism, national health care costing billions, his Court choice which would be far lefties, the fact he has not one Senate bill appended to his name, his far left liberalism, none of these things matter heh? Puleeze. If they don't why not coronate him the new Messiah and be done with the election?

Hmmm . . . Dick Morris has made his livelihood, first from consulting political campaigns and now from commenting on them. No wonder he thinks they are of such great significance?

However, by his definition, ANYONE who ran a successful campaign is automatically qualified to be President. That is ridiculous on its face.

The modern Presidency is the biggest job in the world, literally. The US government is the world's largest operation, by far, with a budget which will now exceed $3 trillion annually, and millions of employees.

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The left considers Obama well-qualified, of course, since he holds the most liberal voting record in the Senate. That he has been able to out-perform, to date, the Clinton Machine is an achievement, but hardly a shocking one. Clinton never managed a majority of the popular vote, remember, and Hillary is a considerably weaker candidate.

Their big mistake was assuming they could run just to the right of the far-left candidates and win with the middle. There is no great "middle" left in the Democratic Party. Hillary has run as if she were tacking toward the general election, never quite going "whole hog" on anything but health care and failing to take out Obama early. Her late attempts to bring him back to earth seem the acts of a campaign in trouble (which is why she needed to get him out early, when she still looked "inevitable").

How many times has Dick Morris been correct about anything in this election?

Obama hasn't been challenged yet because his positions are so close to Clinton's you can't see daylight between them.

Wait until he has to answer questions from McCain, who has the integrity to ask those questions.

No, McCain wasn't my first choice but he's a heckuva lot better than any alternatives left in the race.