Meet Your Candidates! Part I, Section i.

First up, the Incumbent Junior Democratic Senator from Illinois. He's a Kenyan-American and grew up throughout the country and abroad including time in Hawaii and Indonesia. That's right, he's a darkish man...with dark eyes and hair and broad features and...well, black.

Ladies and Gentlemen, you know him, you love him, it's Sen. Barack Hussein Obama! He's cool and articulate...and um, eh-hem, "clean" according to Joe Biden.

And although it was my opinion that Al Sharpton gave a rousing speech at the '04 DNC and was leaps and bounds above the heads of Democratic opponents during that elections primary debates, come on...it's Al Sharpton.

So it's looking like this skinny black man, with a funny name (that the neo-cons wouldn't dare use to compare him to recently departed ass-head Sadam!) is looking like a front runner in the upcoming and ever so far away 08 presidential election!

He is in support of all the things a Democrat should be: a woman's right to choose, gun control, socialized medicine and "New Deal"-like welfare programs.

Learn more about the "Hoosier Daddy" (I'm not kidding) at his official website: here.

FAVORITE THING ABOUT HIM SO FAR:
It's not even really about him. Heard the slogan on the internet:

"Once You Go Black, We're Out Of Iraq"

Sure it's thinly racist and an extension of an ignorant long standing misrepresentation...but it's funny and it's true. It's funny cause it's true!

BEST QUOTE:

"I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. You want a fight, President Bush? Let's finish the fight with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, through effective, coordinated intelligence, and a shutting down of the financial networks that support terrorism, and a homeland security program that involves more than color-coded warnings."

--Remark on His Official Web-Site