… that misses the point.
Talking to an Associated Press reporter writing about the anti-Obama focus of John McCain’s presidential campaign, Obama said: “It’s a leap, electing a 46-year-old black guy named Barack Obama.”
Obama, you see, is trying to make out like any attack on him is an attack on “the black guy,” despite the fact that, as another AP story notes, “McCain has not raised Obama’s race as an issue in the campaign.”
Electing Obama is a leap:
Not because he’s black.
Not because his first name is Barack.
And not because he’s young.
It’s a leap because:
–He’s got very little experience with even on the domestic front, where he claims to be such a champion (he went from “community activist” to civil rights attorney to constitutional law professor to the Illinois Senate to the U.S. Senate, where he’s served only three years).
–Aside from his recent jaunt through the Middle East and Western Europe, he has virtually no foreign policy experience
He has a naive view of foreign policy, as evidenced by his claim that Hillary Clinton was being reckless for saying that if Iran launched a nuclear attack on Iran “we would be able to totally obliterate them,” his own foolish statement that he’d send forces into Pakistan with or without that ally’s OK, his desire to give thugs like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stature by talking to them, and
–And, finally, perhaps like never before, foreign policy matters these days.
While nobody likes “negative” campaigning, I think it’s fair for McCain to question whether Obama is prepared to lead a nation at war with terrorism.