Obama's Resume Lacks Experience

At the risk of political incorrectness, Barrack Obama's nomination really had to be beyond the political pale at some level. He is a first time U.S. senator, has no real experience and started his presidential campaign from the get-go just after receiving his office assignment in the Senate Office Building.
He didn't even take the time to put out his desk calendar or pictures of his wife and kids. He threw his hat in the presidential ring, not on his Senate office coat rack.
And not to put this delicately, Hillary Clinton's people were correct when they said no other ethnic, racial or gender homespun could have pulled this off. The Democratic stars were in proper alignment. It was her nomination to have, but she had incredibly high negatives, and she gave the misogynists a reason to vote for Obama.
Think about it. No other woman of color or minority ethnicity or a white man, for that matter, with this thin a resume could have pulled it off. Obama's inner circle of advisers brilliantly figured all this out. (Similar to California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had to run for governor during the Gray Davis recall. He would never have been nominated by the Republican Party, so he could never have been elected.)
At another level - you even hear Republicans saying this - Obama's nomination is a stirring vindication of the character of the U.S., which is still being portrayed as racist and anti-Muslim by many detractors of America. (The last "Hussein" to make the news big time was Saddam, not exactly an American role-model.) Many Americans - Republicans included - are quietly pleased or fascinated with his nomination, even if they do not support him politically.
Maybe this is a form of subliminal reparation. ("We're sorry, but we'll make it up to you this way.") Obama's nomination was more thrilling than if it had been a woman. After all, we all had expected a woman to be nominated some time soon. With more than 50 percent of the population being female, it doesn't make sense that we haven't had a female president yet. Other countries have.
Obama's resume as an Illinois state senator is more interesting for its subtext, as detailed in a recent New York Times article. It lays out the important legislation he sponsored as state senator. All have an asterisk beside them. Why? They were proposed when he decided to get into federal politics, and were voted on after he left office. He needed to burnish his credentials.
As a young state senator in his first term, he decided to run against iconic Black Panther African American congressman Bobby Rush. (Bill Clinton supported Rush.) Obama lost. It was a good thing or he would have been stuck in the House of Representatives. As it turned out, an Illinois U.S. Senate seat opened up with no sitting Democrat to displace, and once again the stars were in perfect alignment. (And now he had a first rate team of advisers, including David Axelrod.) He ran against Alan Keyes, a conservative black Republican, who never even lived in Illinois! Guess what? Obama won.
Remember when Bush 43 was running against sitting Vice President Al Gore and the media's mantra was George Bush had "No gravitas!" Bush had only been elected as governor twice by the citizens of Texas. But still the point had some merit. Being governor of Texas is no big deal. But being one of 59 state senators from Illinois? And now being one of 100 U.S. Senators with no record of leadership?
Moreover, Obama is the product of the most corrupt political Democratic Party machine in the U.S. (79 of Chicago's local elected officials have been convicted of crimes in the past several decades.) Obama is trying to dance around his friendship with "convicted of corruption" Tony Rezko and Weather underground terrorist Bill Ayers ("I don't regret setting the bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.") This is a man who ballyhoos his impeccable judgment. This could come back to haunt him, but the traditional media will ignore this.
This is a resume? Only in America.