He should run for Illinios Governor and get out of the senate I have a feeling...

Obama really doesn't like Washington all that much.

He'll be in the WH.

Season him...he'll be ready in 2012.

He's ready.

He meets all stated qualifications.

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"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
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Add to that a national profile, community-building experience, an extraordinary gift for language, plus a dedicated following.

Pretty good creds & combo.

buried once and for all regarding Senator Obama.

In support of that proposal I cite the case of Demosthenes of Athens, one of the great orators and public figures of history, at least in terms of his ability to politically persuade an audience on given events of his era.

It was a momentous era at that. Phillip II of Macedon had just been murdered and his heir was a 19-year old youth.

Alexander by name.

Demosthenes didn't like Phillip II much and there was resentment about Phillip's control of the silver mines and the matter of his extremely well-trained army not all that far north of Athens.

Demosthenes railed against Phillip, branding him a barbarian, a roughian, a drunk, a wild and undisciplined ogre. When Phillip was murdered, and it appeared that Alexander would become the new king at age 19, Demosthenes denounced him in public as an unformed punk.

The unformed punk, for his part, marshalled his father's army, almost certainly the best-trained force in the known world, and marched south to demonstrate to the flippant Athenians that Demosthenes was in the wrong.

Still Demosthenes dismissed the young heir.

The army continued its march south from Macedon. We're in 335 bce.

A combined force of Athenian and Theban soldiers, also very well-trained, stood against Alexander and the Macedonian force at Thebes.

Following that battle a different tune was heard on the floor of the Athenian Senate.

And Alexander was hegemon of Greece at age 19.

Obama is older by a long mile than Alexander and in addition to Constitutional sanction, there is nothing in his experience or attitude toward public life or historical perspective to suggest that he would be anything less than entirely and perhaps exceptionally, qualified for the Oval Office.

:evilgrin: That is what you meant!

interested in for which he is not qualified. President. U.S. Senator. Governor of Illinois. Secretary of State. Health & Human Services. And so forth.

Hard to tell what he and Michelle talk about regarding the Washington, DC power corridors, but both of them are brainy and bold souls who can hold their own just about anywhere, seems to me.

Robert F. Kennedy did not especially like the Senate either. But his brother Ted thrives in it. There's just no telling how people will respond.

My take on Senator Obama is that he is a man of apparently unlimited abilities and we would be the beneficiaries of those talents were he to remain in government and public life, no matter what position.

And it's going to be a cold day in hell before I tire of listening to his keynote address at the 04 Boston convention.