Don't we want a President who we can elevate to celebrity status?  Isn't there a reason the public preferred Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton over George H.W. Bush?

Also, Barack Obama gained celebrity status because he defeated Hillary Clinton.

Thank you, John.

I sitll can't really name Hillary's. The overriding motive is whether what the cadidate stands for (change) matches the desire of the country (change). McCain can't win this. In each victory over the past 28 years, I can think of only one isnatnce (Dukakis) where the mood of the country was not reflected in the eventual choice, and that was because of bungling by the Dukakis campaign.

Obama fires back every time McDesperate attacks, and it's been well documented on this site.

Obama has even done some pre-emptive "firing back."

I don't where the urban legend that Obama isn't fighting back, and even taking the fight to McSame, got started. But I have a good idea who those are that started it.

Name 5 amazing things he's done in THREE DECADES.

he worked on many issues and pushed several pieces of legislation in those capacities.  You could find this out for yourself if you weren't a mindless cant-spewing dipshit.

You are absolutely full of it.

You betray your ignorance when you flippantly dismiss Obama's tenure as a law professor as being an insignificant accomplishment.  

Here are the real facts about his professorship:

1. He taught for several years (7?) at the University of Chicago Law School, one of the top 5-8 law schools in the nation.  

2. Although he was not a tenured professor, he was designated by the law school as a "Senior Lecturer," a designation given only to very prominent attorneys and federal judges.  

3. He was offered but turned down a permanent position at the University of Chicago.  A school like the U of Chicago does not offer permanent positions just to any joe-schmoe lawyer or professor wannabe.  

4. The fact that Obama never published a scholarly piece is irrelevant to his position as senior lecturer.  That is not a requirement of the position.  

Just to compare resumes, Bill Clinton, a person who had very similar credentials to Obama when he ran for President, was also a law professor.  But, whereas Obama taught at one of the most prestigious legal academic institutions in the world, Clinton taught at the University of Arkansas, a very good school, certainly, but nowhere near the prestige of the University of Chicago.  

When Obama is elected president, he will be one of the most intellectual presidents in recent memory.    I don't know about you, but I'm with Jon Stewart when he says that being smart is a fairly important qualification for POTUS.  And, given Obama's academic achievements and obvious intelligence, coupled with his immense reasonableness and integrity, makes him the obvious choice over John McCain.  

If this nation screws up again and elects a clearly less qualified, bordering on inept, candidate like McCain, it will go down as one of the worst and embarassing moments in U.S. political history.

Here ya go..

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_ GOP_takes_pride_in_being_ignorant?t=1755 8647

Mary Houghtaling, who runs a hospice in Wilmington, Ohio, choked up as she told McCain of DHL's plans to close its domestic air hub in her town, a move that could throw 8,600 people out of work. "This is a terrible blow," McCain told her. "I don't know if I can stop it. That's some straight talk. Some more straight talk? I doubt it."

[...]
"Those jobs are on the chopping block because Sen. McCain and his campaign were involved in a deal that resulted in control of those positions being shifted to a foreign corporation, and there's no getting around that," said Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO.

He can't stop it, but he made it possible for it to happen.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/ 08/mccain_and_the_dhl_deal.html#more

Thank...just bookmarked it for the future..

Sen. Obama can answer your charge much better than me..
WARNING!!(He goes beyond monosyllabic words)

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_ Explodes_Mischaracterizations_About_Ener gy_Policy

darwinism needs to be careful about regurgitating McDesperate's talking points -- on this Democratic site, at least.

That would never happen.