Barack Obama strikes you as hollow because he, like Sarah Palin, is an effective politician. But the difference between the two is that Obama doesn't create drama to attract cameras, and most importantly, we had many many many oppurtunities to see him interviewed at length over a large variety of policy matters during the campaign. He demonstrated time and again a versed understanding of the issues and the background necessary to tackle solutions to these issues. TWBA and others think he's "an empty suit" because they don't agree with his policy prescriptions. That's just disingenuous. You know it, and I know it.

Barack Obama was vetted. More to the point he had a chance to be thoroughly vetted by the primary electorate, and thanks to Hillary's tough primary campaign by the larger voting public, prior to being elected president. He may not have been tested in real terms, but at least we know that he understands the issues. The voting public was more aligned with him on Election day than with John McCain. That's democracy. When Sarah Palin sat down in extended interviews we came to know that the opposite was true about her. Everyone is generically in favor of lower taxes, so its not enough to simply state your support for that. But that's all she does. I find it amusing that you go on in post after post about how Sarah Palin drives liberals nuts. That's true. We don't understand her appeal. The upside is that we know from your endless ad-hominems that Barack Obama drives YOU nuts. I'm guessing its because you don't understand HIS appeal. You can't say that he lacks substance however, or that he has no specific agenda.

After all, he did win the nobel peace prize.

by hazmat on 11/19/2009 04:43:16 PM EST

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