What's hidden under Barack?

Barack Obama is an amazing politician. Able to persuade his followers(and make no mistake, they are followers) that he somehow can lead them to "change". In my daily walk I see no ambiguous supporters. No supporters that are half way there. People seem to either like him or not. He has no demonstrable experience in changing diapers (see his wife's early comments), much less society.

But, oh can he speak. I love to watch him communicate, almost as much as I admired Reagan's ability. This begs the question though. Other than this campaign, which is a function of personality, how has he brought anyone together to accomplish something of value? Reagan had been around for 20 years in Politics we could see, rightly or wrongly his impact. How about Obama, 24 months, 36 months? 5 years if we give him the benefit of the doubt and offer a Clintonian stretch? He has no practical experience creating change by "uniting". And even if that ability were visible on his resume, under what view of democracy do we believe that "uniting" the country requires unanimous agreement? We are the "United States of America" yet the US constitution was agrued about all the way to Independence Hall. Once it was signed the disagreement on execution continued. (Ever heard of the federalist papers?) What we need is someone that is not afraid of disagreement, acknowledges the options, persuades and influences our legislative bodies and then signs the resulting legislation.

With Obama I suspect that we have an individual that will let personality and political shrewdness drive him to the nomination (an amazing feat in itself given his democratic competition) -- then sit back and watch as a lack of personality and passion (on the republican side) gives him the keys.

Then all of these friends that Mr. Obama has chosen to cultivate, and will continue to creep up in this campaign will (in Dr. Wright's words) "...come home to roost..." Watch closely as 12 million illegals are given the keys to the kingdom and 20 years of a Pastor's influence result in an apology and the resulting fiduciary obligation of said apology to this country's "original sin".

May God Bless America.