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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (381912)	5/1/2008 11:45:15 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1575607

To Obama's credit, it seems he actually studied and did well back in Harvard, unlike the Yale guys Bush and Kerry. I don't think you could be on the Law Review, or for that matter, in Harvard Law School for very long, unless you "studied and did well". I think Obama is problematic for a number of reasons. But first and foremost, as I told MM, you can't sensibly elect a president based on charisma alone. It may be a great quality for a president to have, but it is insufficient. There must be some record of accomplishment beyond merely having been a good student and a state legislator for a couple of years. It is laughable to me that the Left would run a candidate who literally has, to his credit, three years of experience as a Senator -- a substantial portion of which, he was already running and apparently manipulating his voting record in preparation for the run. He may make a great president; people change when they're confronted with the job. But the last 8 years has been the most critical time for America in my lifetime, and the next 8 may be just as critical. We don't need an amateur running the country. We don't need someone whose motivation is political. Bush has been criticized for about everything, but his political courage is something that the next president needs to have. I see nothing in Obama's campaign that makes me believe he has any more political courage than Clinton did.