Roger L. Simon: Obama doesn't want to be president

I missed last night's Democratic presidential debate, on such occasions, I turn to a blogger whose opinion I trust to see what I missed. Roger L. Simon is my choice, and he hits Barack Obama hard--view the YouTube video first, though.

I caught most of the Democratic debate tonight and I was astonished by how unprepared Obama seemed to be on the most obvious question of the evening - how he stood on illegal aliens having driver's licenses. This is the very subject he had used to nail Hillary Clinton at the previous debate, yet his answer to this same question this time was, if anything, more evasive than Hillary's at the other debate.

Surely his handlers must have prepared him for this question. Otherwise they are rank incompetents. So there can only be one conclusion: Barack Obama does not really want to be President.

At least that was what was going through my head while watching the rest of the desultory performance by all concerned. (Only Biden is able to really answer things directly, agree with him of not.)

Now I can't say I totally blame Obama, because he must know what we all do - that he is way too inexperienced for the job at a time like this. During the last week, when the press was making a big deal out of Hillary stumbling, he must have been wrestling in his unconscious with the possibility that he actually could win - a surprising development under the circumstances. The result: he sabotaged himself at the most obvious moment. You don't need to be Dr. Freud to figure that one out.

And exactly who is Obama trying to impress when he brings up his record in the Illinois State Senate? It just reminds people that he was a minor player in the scheme of things just three years ago. Also, regular readers of this blog are well aware that Illinois is a very corrupt state, one that esteemed political scientist Larry Sabato recently called part of the "holy trinity" of corruption. Louisiana and New Jersey are the other partners in crime, according to Sabato.

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