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Is this really what we have left to choose from?

We know basically nothing about Obama other than he's a great orator and he's charismatic. I've now asked 5 hard core Obama supporters to name me 1 significant accomplishment of his and so far there's not been a single example cited. (And running for President doesn't count). According to Democrats for Hilary, he apparently voted "Present" instead of Yes or No in over 100 votes to keep his record as uncontroversial as possible so he could run without a record to haunt him.

Clinton has tons of baggage and lots of negative detractors from both parties. She's facing claims of being a liar, shady business practices, failure in the responsibilities she did have (health care) and taking money and inside info for political favors. The Democrats are now accusing her of illegally laundering funds from Dubai through Bill Clinton to loan her campaign. And that's before the Republicans even get started on her in the general election. Yikes. Obama's wife says she'll vote for McCain over Clinton if she wins.

McCain seems to be considered honest and he's a war hero. The only negatives about him are that he supports the war from the left and that he's too liberal on the right. Right wing nutjobs say they'll vote for Clinton over McCain. His other faux pas was his support for allowing illegal immigrants an easy path to citizenship without securing the borders first.

Huckabee is too moderate for most serious conservatives and too religious (a creationist?) for everyone else.

Ron Paul isn't taken serious by either party or the media, but actually has a significant number of passionate followers, but they only make up about 5% of the Republican and about 1% of the Democratic party.

Have I missed anything?

Brian