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Barack Obama, Rock Star, Man-god and saviour of the free world is touring Africa. Here in the Chicago area we get daily reminders from the biased and smitten Lynn Sweet in her paper, the Obama News which is the Democratic mouthpiece otherwise known as the Chicago Sun-Times. Sweet has been following Obama around Africa along with the rest of the media horde while he tours the home of his father. Sweet is so immersed in all things Obama that she feels the need to share it with us in the riveting series Obama in Africa, available at a newsstand near you.

We get treated by the fawning media with images of Barack and Grandma, Barack and his wife Michelle getting an AIDS test, Barack getting the bribe money charged to some media members back from corrupt government officials and a myriad of other images of Saint Obama. What’s next, Barack in the bathroom? We all know he is so pure that he creates no soil and wouldn’t even need toilet paper. He has been floated as a possible Presidential candidate in 2008 or 2012. All of this from a man who has done nothing since entering the US Senate.

He is articulate, presents well and is the prerequisite minority that makes the Democrats appear “diverse” but Obama is nothing more than an empty suit who tries to appear the “reasonable one” in fiercely partisan Washington. He has done little to distinguish himself from the pack and has spent his tenure in the Senate playing lapdog to Illinois’ Senior Senator Dick Durbin and his obstructionist ways. He better take his shot at the brass ring now because if he waits until 2012 the blossom may be off the rose and he will be forced to run on his record, or lack thereof. The distressing thing is that people (and parties) accept this as substance these days and the only requirement is to put a pretty face on their blind ambition.

It is time we start demanding more from our politicians.

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