I have a bit of a problem with the seeming enthusiasm for Barack Obama's run for the Presidency. Aside from my perception that he sounds like a smooth talkin' snake oil salesman, I'm still trying to find out what he has actually accomplished in his young life - politically related to the good and welfare of the country's citizenry.

Oh, I know that he's considered a great speaker and is called inspirational. Damn right he is - he inspires me to vote for someone else.

Look, he hasn't accomplished anything as chair of the subcommittee on foreign policy. He voted against the resolution calling the Irania Guard terrorists - I guess that wouldn't be playing nice...

Now he's been moaning about being picked on by Bill Clinton. Maybe he should hold a conference, like he would like to do with all of this country's enemies, and inspire the former Prsident to play nice.

Obama should understand that he's running to become the President of the United States - not some local organization or church group. As the president, he will face constant attacks upon his actions and his personality, and that's only from guys like Putin, Chavez, Mushariff, as well "We the People".

And let's not forget about the Reverand Jeremiah Wright, Jr., the pastor of Obama's church - Chicago's Trinity United Curch of Christ. Wright, a friend of that hate monger Louis Farrakhan, agreeing with him as a "black power" advocate, as anti-Israel, and as an anti-Semite. Now Obama knows all about that, but still maintains membership in Wright's church, and has not said a word about that ideology.

Regardless of all this, the media still treats Obama as a "wonder boy"; Chris Matthews, of "Hardball" fame, sometimes seems to do the same. Could it be because Obama is the Affirmative Action candidate - you know, the poor lad who needs all the help he can get to make it in this world?

Regardless of Obama's ethnicity, if he wants to be President of the United States, he cannot just say that we have to believe everything will be all right, that change will take place once he's sitting in the Oval Office.  Change for change's sake is not change - it's the tool of the con man. Hey, Germany in the '30s had a political change because people thought a change was needed from the then current way politics was conducted, and look where that took us.

The world is in too much of a chaotic state for the United States to experiment with new and untried political thinking. We have an excellent basis for success - it just needs a little fine tuning for a return to the greatness which is, and should be, ours.