Charon has responded to and essentially demolished the idea that Obama gained vast amounts of experience in the Illinois Senate. He was indistinguished at best until his last year or so and then he persuaded Emil Jones to grant him favor. Jones was the Democratic leader in the Senate.
This is from a New Yorker article; the New Yorker is not a conservative magazine.
...That’s why, in 2002, as Obama planned his next campaign, he sought out Jones. “We never discussed it, but he had to analyze that race and recognize he had no other powerful elected officials supporting him,” Jones said. “And so he felt I could be very, very key if he was going to make the run for the U.S. Senate.
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In the State Senate, Jones did something even more important for Obama. He pushed him forward as the key sponsor of some of the Party’s most important legislation, even though the move did not sit well with some colleagues who had plugged away in the minority on bills that Obama now championed as part of the majority. “Because he had been in the minority, Barack didn’t have a legislative record to run on, and there was a buildup of all these great ideas that the Republicans kept in the rules committee when they were in the majority,” Burns said. “Jones basically gave Obama the space to do what Obama wanted to do. Emil made it clear to people that it would be good for them.” Burns, who at that point was working for Jones, was assigned to keep an eye on Obama’s floor votes, which, because he was a Senate candidate, would be under closer scrutiny. The Obama-Jones alliance worked. In one year, 2003, Obama passed much of the legislation, including bills on racial profiling, death-penalty reform, and expanded health insurance for children, that he highlighted in his Senate campaign.
Obamessiah was made by Jones; it's that simple. Obamessiah did do diddly in the Illinois Senate except what Jones pre-planned for him and told him to do. Maybe they should have run Jones..........
Other than Illinois, he has ~ 140 days as a US Senator, using most of that time to run for President.
If you want to say Obamessiah is as experienced as Bush, you'd be wrong. But I'm not sure, if you're pushing Obama, that you want to try to make a claim that Obama will be as good as Bush.
As for Obamessiah being as qualified as Palin, I really don't think so. But then neither one is exactly a world statesman.
Anyway if Palin is not qualified, then Obamessiah is even less qualified AND.... Obamessiah is the top of that ticket.
Dems had this election wrapped. Hill the Prez and she would have been smart enough to make Obama the Veep. But Noooooooooooooooooooooooo....
. they had to jump the shark.
