Sour grapes, Obama fans!

I woke up this morning expecting to write a funny poem and found an e-mail in my in-box from a friend forwarding a note from moveon.org about the presidential debate from Constitution Hall in Philadelphia that took place Wednesday night on ABC. The writer accused the moderators, George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson of skirting issues and focusing on inside the beltway petty politics, and failing to get around to the good stuff.

Funny, we watched the same debate and thought Barack left himself hanging by not answering any of the policy questions with solid, tangible information, and then getting testy when the questions got personal. Apparently he doesn't know enough details of supposed solutions to deal with various issues, to explain his strategies and truly attack the key issues in the campaign. Hillary does. She performed admirably, explaining herself clearly on everything from health care reform to social security to the war in Iraq and more. It was a sad day for Obama fans as they watched him do what he does best -- talk. He's an excellent rhetorician, but he doesn't hold a candle to Clinton when she's on the ball. She knows her stuff, and she knows it because she's lived it. That's the difference. If Obama had the experience she does, he'd be a great uniter, a terrific leader. But he's just out of the chute and we don't need someone to undergo on-th-job training. He'll be trounced by a Republican whose been around long enough to show him what is -- so far -- just the dark before the storm.
Sour grapes, Obama fans!
As for the moderators, yes, they asked some inside stuff, but if you think their questions were trivial, just wait. If Obama can't handle it now, watch him wilt in the heat of the presidential campaign battle.
Right now Obama's all about titles. Jumping from the Illinois Senate to the US Senate, starting a campaign for President and using that to explain why he hasn't held a meeting since he became head of a key committee on veteran's affairs, makes it perfectly clear to me he's more interested in hearing the music than in writing the song. Give Barack another 4 or 8 years in the Senate, where he can plunge his hands into business, and we could see a Democrat at the helm of America for the next 16 years.