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The Obama campaign can be dismissive of the number of people in Palin’s leadership positions, but at least she had some leadership positions.

Obama legislating for a small section of Chicago isn’t the same job as Palin managing a government for a small city.

Running a State, even with a small population is still more leadership than Obama’s similarly short years in the US Senate.

In both cases Obama never had enough seniority to ever chair a committee nor did he ever lead in any significant way. As factcheck.org notes: Obama tends to vote straight in line with his party. Even the issues he likes to pad his resume with were generally handed to him by parties leaders in Illinois or the US Senate who wanted to help push his career along. That’s not leadership, that’s being groomed.

I sincerely hope that the Democrats keep making an issue out of the experience, since the more voters are focused on it, the more they’ll notice that Obama isn’t qualified for VP himself… let alone the Presidency.

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As a Clinton backer in the 90′s… I’m pretty amazed at the irony of last night’s security line up… A president, a Senator and former presidential candidate, and now a Senator and current VP candidate who all argued for unilateral military action against Iraq, noting France and Russia would never support us, because of the threat they posed with their WMDs… whining about McCain support similar policies.

And all of them are now claiming they have a right to judgment for McCain’s vote? While I agree there’s plenty to criticize Bush on when it comes to Iraq, when it comes to McCain’s support and consequent criticisms of how Bush was executing that policy… it puts him far ahead in judgment than all three of these yahoos who all seemed to flip when it became politically expedient or popular to do so.

Below are these same three foreign policy ‘experts’ disagreeing with Obama, even before Bush was in office:

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Hillary did everything she was expected to do. But the most interesting part of her convention speech last night was what she left out, some might think intentionally…

From CNN:

(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton may have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president in a speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, but Sen. John McCain’s campaign said she stopped short of saying that he is ready to lead the country.

“Sen. Clinton ran her presidential campaign making clear that Barack Obama is not prepared to lead as commander in chief. Nowhere tonight did she alter that assessment. Nowhere tonight did she say that Barack Obama is ready to lead,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

On a more humorous note, one of the first things we noticed:

I am so honored to be here tonight.

(APPLAUSE)

You know, I’m — I’m here tonight as a proud mother, as a proud Democrat…

(APPLAUSE)

… as a proud senator from New York…

(APPLAUSE)

… a proud American…

(APPLAUSE)

… and a proud supporter of Barack Obama.

Proud wife? Interesting dig by omission at the beginning of her speech… which set the theme of the speech: Pay attention to what I’m leaving out.

And the biggest coverage of Obama’s convention? More about the Clintons and speculation about the Clintons than anything else. Makes one wonder if the tracking polls will still continue to show an Obama slide in the polls.

Given some have described last night’s ‘unity’ attempt as “the biggest stunt of her career so far” by “one of the most accomplished practitioners of the fine art of political deception” and warning their readers bluntly: “Don’t believe a word of it.”

…let’s just say there’s plenty of reason for people to have their doubts.

Great timing. On the eve of the ‘unity’ convention for the democratic party, Obama’s political mentor (yeah, another crazy mentor… noticing a pattern yet?) attacked a Hillary supporter, witnesses confirm, with a racist insult.

NOW of Illinois is demanding his resignation:

DENVER — The chief of Illinois’ National Organization for Women chapter today called on Barack Obama’s “political godfather” to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for calling an African-American Hillary Clinton delegate an “Uncle Tom.”

“That was a pretty horrible comment,” said Illinois NOW president Bonnie Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, who issued the demand for Senate President Emil Jones’ resignation.

Feminists who make up the Illinois Clinton delegate contingent at the Democratic National Convention were outraged to learn of today’s exclusive Chicago Sun-Times report about Clinton delegate Delmarie Cobb’s accusation that Jones directed the racially loaded slur at her.

Unity!

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