[Tijeras_Slim]

Well, I guess there's hope for me then.

[dc-zoo]

That would be a big fat ZERO.

[Gritty]

[OB1kNOb]

1. TBD

[reagan_fanatic]

Obama created crickets?

[onyx]

He beat Alan Keyes.

[grobdriver]

But.... but he's a black man! Sorta.
And he's a Democrat!
Obama for President! Yeehaw!

[Jhensy]

He did create composite characters in his autobiography, which is some kind of achievement.

[wideawake]

He made Harvard Law Review.

He wrote a book about his dad.

He has a better lifetime voting attendance record in the Senate than the last Democratic nominee.

[lilylangtree]

Given that he hasn't done anything, he's presenting himself as the alternative to the Hildebeast and hoping that he can pull off the Veep position in the '08 elections process.

[MadIvan]

Beware. He's already trying to turn his newness into a virtue; he can portrayed himself as a genuine break with the politics of the past.

Regards, Ivan

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Well, according to Cong. Bobby Rush (D-IL), Obama was "born to be president." So who are we to stand in the way of fate, or the will of the Almighty, or whatever? We'll just get run down.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here's all any Conservative needs to know about Obama:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

Planned Parenthood - 100% Support
National Right To Life - 0% Support
NARAL - 100% Support
Americans for Tax Reform - 0% Support
ACLU - 83% Support
NEA - 100% Support
NOW Hags - 100% Support
Citizens Against Government Waste - 13% Support
Gun Owners of America - 0% Support
NRA - "F" Rating
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 0% Support
US Border Patrol - 8% Support
Unions - 82% - 100% Support
Population Connection - 100% Support (These are the 'Zero Growth' freaks)

http://vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS030017

[Obama's record in the Illinois senate:]

- Opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
- Opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother's wishes. Obama inexplicably opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
- Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
- Obama puts rigid ideology before what's best for the people of Illinois, and presumably he would do that as President as well. He has on several occasions made public his opposition to the NAFTA trade agreement and his belief that it must be negotiated. All the while thanks to NAFTA, Illinois exports $1.3 billion in agricultural goods to Canada.
- Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
- Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
- Finally, just in case you thought it couldn't get any worse, Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.

[FreeKeys]

Uh, well, he's got a nice voice.

[sarasota]

I didn't realize that his father and step father are both Muslims and that he attended a Wahabbism (sp?) school in his youth.

[MarineBrat]

He's not John Kerry.

[jonrick46]

We have a virtual blank slate or a Trojan Horse, however you want to look at it. With no accomplishments Obama makes a perfect pick for the Hildabeast's ticket. She also has virtually no accomplishments, so between the two of them, you have lots of room for creative license. The press has always been willing to fabricate the accomplishments; so there is nothing to worry about.