It is with some amusement and some boredom that I have watched the developing field for the Democrat nomination. Most especially, I love watching the Left in the media (which is most of it) slobbering all over itself to describe each Democrat candidate more breathlessly than the last.

My thoughts today are on the man the antique media can't help but refer to by his skin color, Barack "He's an articulate black" Obama. Well, articulate or not, he sure makes his fair share of gaffs. That might be because he's a major political lightweight. It's a sad statement when John Edwards has more federal experience than you do, and Barack fits that bill. He certainly seems to have more foreign politics savy, as he didn't quite make the mistake that Senator Obama did just a few weeks ago. Do you recall this excerpt from the New York Times on August 2nd?

"Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination, said he would order strikes on Al Qaeda targets and withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid if the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, did not blunt a resurging Taliban presence in the country’s tribal areas. This, he said, is the “right battlefield” to make the United States safer.

“If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act,” Mr. Obama said, “we will.”"

To digress for just a moment, I remember back in 2000 when the TV news would spend hours going over how Bush didn't know the leader of some bannana republic in the middle of nowhere or that he wasn't aware of the ruler of the week for Kerplackistan. This was cited as proof that he had no skill in the foreign policy arena and was seen as enough to disqualify him from the Presidency by many of the annointed talking heads.

Now, you get a major contender for the Democrat nod (not some fringe uber loon like Jackson or Sharpton) saying something that qualifies almost as a threat of war against a sovereign nation (and ally) and it barely gets a mention. Does Obama even know who Pervez Musharraf really is, his situation in Pakistan or what he does for us?

Does he know that Musharraf is a former commando, not just a barracks commando but a veteran of several combat operations? Does he know that Musharraf walks a fine line daily in trying to hold his fragile nation together while keeping the Muslim radicals at bay? Does Obama have an inkling that Musharraf has survived over a dozen well-publicized assasination attempts (and several that haven't been so publicized)? Is Obama aware that unlike previous leaders of Pakistan who addressed Pakistanis in their speeches as "My Muslim Brothers", Musharraf says only "My Countrymen"? Has he considered that the alternative to Musharraf, who is decidedly pro-American, is a new radical Islamic republic (like Iran), this time armed with nuclear weapons?

if he is, then his comments were threats against an ally in a time of war and at the very least should make us question whether we want such a man in the Senate at all. If he is not aware of these things, then he seems to lack the experience of even someone with an internet connection and a little research time, because none of these facts are hard to find. Again, what exactly is he doing in the Senate?

I don't think he's qualified for even that. The Democrat Party in Illinois, well known for the miracle of getting dead men to vote, was able to find sufficient dirt on his opponent, Jack Ryan, that he would have ran practically unopposed. Instead, he went up against carpetbagger Alan Keyes, which when considered in hindsight might have been the worse of the two options.

Other than being your typical run of the mill, completely out of touch leftist state legislator, he had and still has no real special qualities that would suggest him to the office of a U.S. Senator, let alone President. Of the Democrats running, even the likes of the loony Mike Gravel are better choices among the liberals in the Democrat Party, but maybe they continue (as they did in the '60's) to judge people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character (or political expertise). Barack is a disgrace even for Democrats.