<<Many whites voted for him out of white guilt.>>
Is that so? How many whites who stayed home or voted against him did so because he was black?
<<His resume consists of nothing that makes a leader let alone the proper credentials to be POTUS. >>
Yeah right. Anybody can graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law. Anybody can edit the Harvard Law Review. Anybody can teach Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. Why don't you apply for the position, Kramer? You're way smarter than he is.
<<He was a Community Organizer and not a very good one at that. >>
Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.
<<Show me where he's been a leader, run a business, taken a risk, done something great that makes him presidential? >>
What makes him Presidential is his ability to analyze issues carefully and accurately, to see both sides of any issue, to discriminate between valid and invalid claims, to reconcile competing interests, to calculate appropriate penalties. All of that and more is the result of careful training at one of the best law schools in the world, where, competing against some of the sharpest minds in the country, he excelled in the discipline of the profession. As not only his grades but his later teaching appointment show, he has what it takes to do all of the above. As his campaigns for the nomination and the Presidency show, he has the ability and the discrimination to attract and retain competent advisers who are obviously better than the other side's advisers, and to learn from them and steer the right course to a win over them.
<<Show me where he has made wise decisions as POTUS . . . >>
Well, canning McChrystal's ass was a wise decision. I'm not happy with his other decisions but I believe he's really learned the folly of "bipartisanship" and is growing a pair at last, maybe too late, but will stop trying to kiss Republican ass for bipartisan support that will never arrive unless and until he has sold out every liberal principle that he has left.
<< . . . and learned from the bad ones? >>
Hopefully he learned from the health care fiasco that the next time he gets a 51% majority he'll push through the kind of legislation the country needs even if he doesn't get a single Republican vote behind it. Hopefully he'll learn how to neutralize or purge the DINOs out of his party before any more big votes come up/
<<Hey this guy hasn't learned yet that the Stimulus(s) was/is a failure and he's going for more Stimulus right now.>>
Obviously that is because the stimulus was NOT a failure and more stimulus must be needed.
<<When he was a state senator he mostly voted present, didn't sponsor any significant legislation. >>
Was that not also when he spoke out against the criminal invasion of Iraq?
<<When he had a chance in the US Senate to show confidence in Gen Betrayus, I mean Petraeus, he refused to vote to vote in favor -- what a coward. >>
You have to be a coward to say you DON'T have confidence in General Petraeus? Why, what would the General have done to him if he DID show confidence in him?
<<I will take it a step further and say that not only looking black and talking white got him elected . . . >>
Bullshit. He got elected because he ran against a Republican.
<<I'll also say I think he's racist too. He sat in Rev Wrights racist church for 20 years listening to hate speech and apparently liked the message. >>
Like any other politician, he probably went to the church because he felt those were the people who could do his career the most good at that time. What on earth do you mean, "he apparently liked the message?" Do you have inside information that every time the Rev blasted Whitey or damned America, Obama leaped to his feet waving, stomping and hollering? Nobody likes the message you hear in any church or synagogue today, it's just a bunch of fucking bullshit that everyone has to listen to as the price of being there so you can see your friends and supporters afterward and press the flesh.