Obama's Midnight Runners

I was thinking how easy it is for Obama to criticize McCain's record, because McCain has a record. The difference here, using the word "record" as the cue, is that McCain has a multi-CD discography, like Led Zeppelin to use an example (or Frank Sinatra if you prefer). Sure, there are going to be songs you don't like on, say, Houses of the Holy, but that's because there's such a large body of work. Obama, on the other hand, is the one-hit wonder. His "Come on Eileen" is "I Want Out of Iraq." That's all he's got, and you either agree or disagree, but beyond that he has no record. His big criticism of McCain is "McCain is the Washington insider." Well, Obama is an insider, too- he's a Senator. You don't get more "Washington insider" than that, but he's touting his lack of experience as being a positive, but it's as thin as a cloud. Everything he is saying in his campaign is improvisation now, he has no history to back him up, and we have no way of knowing how well he leads or works within government. McCain is known as nonpartisan, maverick, and widely respected. What is Obama? Compromiser, stubborn, bull-headed, open-minded, what? We don't know, and that's what makes his criticisms of McCain, a man whose record of service to this country is enormous, not just hollow but flat, 2-dimensional. Obama's campaign is like watching the ocean on a movie screen. It looks realistic and the camera angles can make you feel like you're right there and the whole thing can stir your emotions, but try jumping into it.