How do you make Hillary look Presidential?

You place John Edwards and Barak Obama in close contrast with her.

One would say that Edwards’ campaign is floundering but that would mean that it was ever floating. Edwards has remained in a distant third in the Democrat primary since the ‘08 campaign began, back in November of ’04.

Perhaps it’s because Edwards’ theme of “Two Americas” is idiotic in a time of such epic and widespread prosperity. There is a reason that Edwards’ theme of poverty has not caught on-most people think they are prosperous. Consumer confidence is soaring, which, of course, means that the American public thinks that it is experiencing individual prosperity. Since virtually every economic trend has been hot for the last four years, it would appear that today’s high consumer confidence is not an expression of collective irrational exuberance.

As Edwards Presidential aspiration continue to stall he drifts further into the lunatic left conspiracy theories that used to be reserved for Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, and Martin Sheen. His latest target has been media monopolies, attacking Fox’s acquisition of the Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. Strange how he isn’t concerned with the extreme left monopolies of the three television networks, or the AP, or…….. Edwards’ numbers show he is joining Kucinich as a twice-defeated crank, and not an election cycle too soon.

Obama presents quite a different proposition altogether. Where Edwards is silly and fey John Edwards, Barak Obama is neither. Obama seems like a serious and decent man. Many of Obama’s thoughts on generational transformation, race and poverty make a lot of sense. Obama is very articulate, quick on his feet and impressive in presence. Moreover, as strange as it seems, he appears to be honestly saying things he really believes.

That is where the tragedy begins. Obama sound’s like a child when he discusses job skill number 1 for the President, C-in-C of the most powerful, feared and loved nation on earth. In the last week or so Obama has said he would engage in immediate and personal Presidential meetings with the leaders of places like Iran, North Korea and Syria in his first year in office and invade Pakistan.; Now, Barak has disclaimed the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstance in the War on Terror.

Concededly, it sounds appealing to say that more open and unconditional diplomacy with enemy regimes like Iran and Syria would make the chaotic world more peaceful. Yet neither Obama nor the other liberals who advance the proposition can explain either the content of such a discussion. Similarly, the idea of striking at al Qaeda inside Pakistan sounds like TR calling for the Raisuli’s head in The Wind and The Lion. The Real Sporer is usually for killing the bad guys wherever we find them. However, the cost of destabilizing perhaps our most important ally in the War on Terror, Pervez Musharraf and his moderate but nuclear missile armed Pakistani government, are infinitely worse than whatever benefit we could gain from any significant military action inside Pakistan, even if we could blast Osama or his leadership posse. Think of the catastrophe is we swing and miss.

With today’s abrogation of the concept of nuclear deterrence, in the face of a nuclear-armed world and some breathtakingly evil people whose goal is the quite literal, physical destruction of our culture, what other than child like naïveté could explain an intelligent and seemingly honest man’s advocacy of such a position?

As weak and feckless as was much of the Clinton foreign policy, Bubba at least showed the American fangs with sufficient frequency to keep the Islamofascist terrorists from doing anything truly horrific. At the very least, the Iranians and their allies in the terror culture had to assume that Bill Clinton would unleash G.I. Joe if they openly attacked us, developed, or deployed nuclear weapons.

Clearly, the Iranians fear that W’s response were they to actually develop nuclear weapons, much less use them on Israel or provide them to a terror group for employment here or elsewhere. You have to believe that the mullahs think that a devoutly Christian cowboy from Texas just might nuke ‘em. Now Obama says he will not.

As admirable and agreeable as one could find many of Obama’s attributes and ideas, history would seem to mean the Democrats need a little more Franklin and Harry and a lot less of Jimmy.