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All but launching a presidential run, Barack Obama has added serious star power to the 2008 race -- and made history.
  • Experience...

    Experience also takes into account what Barack Obama hasn't done. And...

    • Barack Obama has NOT run an oil company into the ground
    • Barack Obama has NOT mismanaged a baseball team
    • Barack Obama has NOT mismanaged a huge American state
    • Barack Obama has NOT been an alcoholic
    • Barack Obama has NOT stolen an election
    • Barack Obama has NOT mispronounced the word "nuclear"
    • Barack Obama has NOT been handed entry -- and later, a degree-- to an Ivy League school without the necessary intellect
    • Barack Obama has NOT been born into wealth, and made more wealthy due to nothing he himself accomplished
    • Barack Obama has NOT turned into a born-again wingnut
    • Barack Obama has NOT put his fate in the hands of decrepit old vampires like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
    • Barack Obama has NOT allied himself with someone like Karl Rove
    • Barack Obama has NOT claimed to have messages from God
    • Barack Obama has NOT taken America to war on false pretenses
    • Barack Obama has NOT tried to get Osama Bin Laden and failed miserably
    • Barack Obama has NOT lied to members of Congress and his own cabinet about nonexistent WMDs and a nonexistent Iraq/Al-Qaeda connection
    • Barack Obama didn't sit there with a stupid idiot look on his face, reading "My Pet Goat" while our country was being attacked
    • Barack Obama has NOT landed on an aircraft carrier, wearing a flight suit, and declaring "Mission Accomplished" years before the mission was even close to being done
    • Barack Obama has NOT said "Heckuva good job, Brownie"
    • Barack Obama has NOT tried to take away a woman's right to choose
    • Barack Obama has NOT given tax cuts to the rich, and made sure that the poor got poorer
    • Barack Obama has NOT suggested that Christianity should be a national religion
    • Barack Obama has NOT supported war in Iraq, and never did
    • Barack Obama has NOT sold his soul to the devil - at least we don't think so, yet...