An Overseas Perspective on Senator Obama

An excellent article in The Jerusalem Post, from January 23, discusses the odds against a successful Presidential campaign by Senator Barack Obama on this try. I agree with much of what they say, both in substance and in analysis of American voters and media.

I do believe that the Senator has a place at the table, and in the long run he could be a fine Presidnt, but it may be a bit early, not for any real substantive reason, we've already proven a not-so-clever man can be elected President (the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue), so why not an inexperienced but sincere and eloquent, well-educated man? But with the strikes of his youth and his race against him, he's going to need a proven resume.

Yes, the time has come for America to demonstrate more to our concepts of diversity than prime-time sitcoms, but I think 2008 might play its role in that history by being the year we get our first female Chief Executive.