Well, it looks like we know the answer to the so-far unasked question about why the Obama campaign wasn’t a bit more assertive trying to fend off charges of inexperience against their guy by trotting out highly polished, if not slightly embellished, examples of his various and sundry achievements and accomplishments.

Because it’s looking seriously like they know better than to try and polish a (couple of) turd(s), and since they’d probably rather not discuss their candidate’s support for baby killing. . . guess they’ll just have to keep calling everyone that doesn’t support The One racist, gun fevered and bitter Bible Thumpers. Yeah, that’ll work.

But wait! Turns out Barry does have some experience, and there is a track record to consider - despite Barry’s and his Budz’ efforts to try and keep it all hush hush - and what is available clearly shows that in at least TWO going concerns (first housing and neighborhood development, now education), in which BO was a mover, shaker, player, gadfly, hanger-on, also-showed-up-for the photo-op, whatever - were both just less than fantastic examples to use for a Nutroots Urgent Action Campaign, much less even passable via trusted agents such as Olbermann, Matthews, or Mitchell into the MSM as talking head fodder to pump their guy up.

The thinking has got to be that it’s best just to let steaming dog poo alone, and just hope that no one smells it or steps in it, since it can no longer be cleaned up without drawing attention and someone noticing. All the while making every effort to deny that their dog is the one that actually took the dump, without admitting there even is a dump, or that there even is a dog.

The involvement in the education project probably hasn’t garnered more attention due to the program being so apparently ineffectual that it actually caused no measurable damage of the sort that gets people to ranting for reporters, such as we were treated to courtesy of Barry promising to turn parts of the South Side into Disneyland using Wacker Drive and OP (Other People’s - as in Federal - as in our) dinero, only to have the buildings involved turn into unlivable hell-holes, and the money disappear into the pockets of the likes of Barry-Bud Tony Rezko.

Not that Barry’s dabbling in Education, while working as the Chairman of an Organizational Board, while not exchanging ideas very often with the Organization’s ultra-left wing, domestic terrorist founder, was a complete failure, depending upon one’s perspective. Quite a lot of money (49.2 million enough?) flowed through these pipes, for one, and the only statistically notable difference for around seven years of effort (h/t - JustOneMinute) was that the teachers were following measurable didactic methods (translation - teachers and local school administrators were having to accomplish additional paperwork to report in further detail what they are doing, in order to feed an additional beauracratic maw - which wasn’t necessarily the school board), and that Instructional Program Coherence was weaker (translation - what most likely already seemed to be confusing mush to the teenage brain was made. . . mushier). Sounds like a rousing success from Bill Ayer’s and Barry O’s point of view - the people that see the warts are supplied with make-work and motivational claptrap to keep them occupied and quiet; potential future left leaning voters are given the same sub-standard education as before, only now with less coherence, thereby suppressing the “wtf” factor in future potential Obama voters; plus there was plenty of cash-flow to control and dispense, making all involved very, very important and influential functionaries and glitterati.

In summary, it’s not really fair to say Barry has no experience. He has the experiences of Chicago, of which it is fair to say that Barry’s (and Bill’s, and Tony’s) “Chicago Way” made things worse, not better. For the very people they were supposed to be helping. Directly. All the while soothing his soul via the tender ministrations of Jeremiah Wright’s vision of god-damned America. Oddly, in a way, it does seem to humanize Michelle somewhat, explaining her lack of things to feel proud about feelings, at any rate.

That’s not the type of ‘experience’ that this country, or the rest of the world for that matter, really need to go through for the next four years. Been there, done that. Hoped for change, but on the domestic front all we got were insanely high, economy crushing inflation, tax, and interest rates, plus a leisure suit era fashion recommendation lecture instead of a useful energy policy, and an entrenched medievalist theocracy where a staunch westernized and relatively secular US ally once existed, which we’ve been having fun with ever since, thank you very much, on the foreign policy front.

Thus, it’s a blessing that the Democrats are either so obtuse, so brazen, or so utterly delusional that they believe trotting the rabbit-fearing, lust in his heart peanut farmer out for the opening night of their convention, then following up their cypher of a nominee with the biggest “I tell ya we’re all gonna DIE if you don’t do what I say!” hypocritical charlatan alive is a really, really great idea.

And it is a really great idea. And one hell of a national Rorschach test. . .

Update - Nice quote -

Like Dr. Kurtz, I have conducted archival research on several continents and in dozens of libraries, from London to Managua to Berkeley to Palo Alto, even in Chicago itself, at several of its libraries. I have conducted research on issues as sensitive as the origins of the Manhattan Project to the police state set up by the Sandinistas. And not once have I found a library door closed in my face like this. Not even by the FSLN in Managua itself. [emphasis mine -ed]

And some good questions, too.

Update 2 - 3. . .2. . .1. . .Hey! That’s RACIST!