Dickerson does not know what he is talking about. Indiana is such a "next door" State to Illinois, that Obama can practically be considered a Favorite Son candidate in Indiana. Yet, Clinton tied him there, and beat him in North Carolina. How in the world do Democrats propose to win the White House without Hillary Clinton heading up their ticket? They live in a fantasy world if they think that Obama is the least bit electable come the Fall General Election. This guy has more skeletons in his closet than Vincent Price or Bella Lagosi ever did, and I guarantee you, come Halloween time, they are all going to come out to haunt all of us for sure, should Obama ever be the Democratic nominee.
One of the original American Black Mayorships was occasioned in Gary, Indiana, just South and East of the South Chicago neighborhood of Barack Obama's Heartland territory.
I have to admit, Barack Obama reminds me more and more of Abraham Lincoln, all lean and cool, elegant in his self assurance, and intelligent and well spoken in his verbal electioneering pablum. But let's get real -- He is a Harvard Elitist, which makes for absolutely the worst credential for running for U.S. President that there is. I mean, look at it this way: Mitt Romney merely served as Governor of the State of Massachusetts, and the guy went nowhere on the national stage. Obama, similarly, is tainted forever by his Harvard imprimatur. I do not want him as my President, period. He can be the Veep, and maybe succeed to the top job that way, but "right off the bat" forget it. The guy has not even put in any serious amount of time as a U.S. Senator, and his record as a Senator is quite unimpressive.
We have had six years of War in Iraq Two, and all Obama can talk about, is how he was right six years ago, supposedly opposing this wasteful, stupid war because he made a Harvard like Oration opposing it, during the run-up drumbeat for War.
However, at the time, I did not see Obama giving hour after hour of speeches on the floor of the U.S. Senate, turning purple around the collar at times, like West Virginia Senator Harry Byrd did. In fact, while watching Byrd speaking vividly and unforgettably in opposition to this Bush Junior War, quite frankly, Obama was about as cool and nowhere to be found as anyone I remember. Talk about cool and collected. The guy is a total "Lightweight."
Hillary Clinton was willing to rattle the saber then and now, but she was not anywhere near as incompetent as to actually start an unasked for and unnecessary war. Remember: Under Bill Clinton, we did not have any unforgivable "foreign entanglements." Under Bush Junior, it has been one after another nonstop "foreign entanglement." I do not see John McCain offering any solution to this American foreign policy folly, but neither do I see Barack Obama as a politician with the Gravitas to address my concerns, whether foreign or domestic.
Hillary Clinton is and remains my Gal Pal for the U.S. Presidency, not because I agree with her about everything -- I don't -- but because she is intelligent, competent, experienced, knows the issues and the opposition, can "hit the ground running" and yes, has the requisite Gravitas.
I would forgive Hillary if she presented Barack Obama as her Vice Presidential running mate; I would not forgive the Democratic Party, should they pass over Hillary to choose this Obama neophyte to head their Ticket this Fall, over her.
As to Slate's Author, Dickerson, he does not garner my vote nor my approval, either. I do not see a Cabinet or appointive position in Hillary Clinton's Presidential Cabinet in his future.
