Durbin Promotes Obama Candidacy

Sen. Dick Durbin is leaping aboard the Obama Express with an online effort to promote the Illinois freshman Senator's bid for the White House (from Political Wire):

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is launching an on-line petition drive to persuade Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to run for president in 2008, the Chicago Sun Times reports.

Said Durbin: "In all my years in politics, I have only met one other person who connects with people as well as Barack does: former President Bill Clinton. That says a lot about Barack's superior skills as a politician and a leader. I have complete confidence that Barack will be able to unite Americans across our country in support of a new agenda of hope."

So, as long as you are a good communicator, it doesn't really matter what your experience has been or whether you really know anything about running the country. It's all about image.

Let's examine some other things Durbin has said to see what kind of credibility he has:

"If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

Yeah, he's the guy I'm looking to for advice on our next president.