Why McCain is Obama's worst nightmare
Why would anybody support Barack Obama for president?
True, he's a bright man, a charismatic man, and an eloquent man. He embodies the hopes of African Americans, for obvious reasons, in a way no other candidate ever has. He plays an audience like a violin. Yet, as I've observed before, he's also a man who not only is in the fourth year of his single term in the U.S. Senate, but has spent so much time running around the country playing rock star and such little time tending to business that he is probably the least experienced freshman senator currently in Washington. Barak Obama is essentially running for the most powerful office in the world on the basis of his experience as a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
On one level, "Obamamania" is perfectly understandable; the has loads of charisma and seemingly no end of eloquence. But form will only take a presidential candidate so far in the absence of substance. And as Marie Cocco points out here, the American electorate is apt, when choosing a president, to be rather partial to substance- and resumes.
Most experts (and polls) have agreed for months that John McCain is the strongest candidate the Republican party could run against Hillary Clinton, a widely disliked woman whose own credentials to be president are a great deal thinner than her supporters and the MSM like to pretend. But when Obama's resume is compared with John McCain's, the Illinois senator comes off as very much a lightweight- and when Americans elect lightweights to the Oval Office, it generally isn't on purpose.
Meanwhile, here is some sage advice from Peter Wehner on just how McCain should go about running against Obama.
HT: Real Clear Politics
True, he's a bright man, a charismatic man, and an eloquent man. He embodies the hopes of African Americans, for obvious reasons, in a way no other candidate ever has. He plays an audience like a violin. Yet, as I've observed before, he's also a man who not only is in the fourth year of his single term in the U.S. Senate, but has spent so much time running around the country playing rock star and such little time tending to business that he is probably the least experienced freshman senator currently in Washington. Barak Obama is essentially running for the most powerful office in the world on the basis of his experience as a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
On one level, "Obamamania" is perfectly understandable; the has loads of charisma and seemingly no end of eloquence. But form will only take a presidential candidate so far in the absence of substance. And as Marie Cocco points out here, the American electorate is apt, when choosing a president, to be rather partial to substance- and resumes.
Most experts (and polls) have agreed for months that John McCain is the strongest candidate the Republican party could run against Hillary Clinton, a widely disliked woman whose own credentials to be president are a great deal thinner than her supporters and the MSM like to pretend. But when Obama's resume is compared with John McCain's, the Illinois senator comes off as very much a lightweight- and when Americans elect lightweights to the Oval Office, it generally isn't on purpose.
Meanwhile, here is some sage advice from Peter Wehner on just how McCain should go about running against Obama.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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