FROM THE DEPTHS OF HIS SOWELL

Posted at 10:25 a.m. ET

Thomas Sowell has been one of the most vigorous Obama doubters during this campaign, and now he tops off his effort with a final blast, predicting no great things from The One.  This will not make Obama's day:

After the big gamble on subprime mortgages that led to the current financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only qualifications are ego and mouth?

Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.

Well, Thomas Sowell just got scratched off Michelle's Christmas-card list. 

The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges-- very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in real world.

No White House invitations either, even for the Easter-egg hunt.

"This is our time!" he proclaimed. And "I will change the world." But ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon.

Oh come on, he can bring in Oprah to work on those things. 

After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He can cripple the military and gamble America's future on his ability to sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.

Oh, Sowell, so real world!  Don't you realize we don't talk about "enemy nations" in the Age of Obama?  They're "societies with alternative visions."  Get with the program.

Senator Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden, has for years shown the same easy-way-out mindset. Senator Biden has for decades opposed strengthening our military forces. In 1991, Biden urged relying on sanctions to get Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait, instead of military force, despite the demonstrated futility of sanctions as a means of undoing an invasion.

People who think Governor Sarah Palin didn't handle some "gotcha" questions well in a couple of interviews show no interest in how she compares to the Democrats' Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Biden.

Joe Biden is much more of the kind of politician the mainstream media like. Not only is he a liberal's liberal, he answers questions far more glibly than Governor Palin--grossly inaccurately in many cases, but glibly.

Yeah.  One heartbeat away.  It's an argument for hoping Obama stays in good health.      Permalink          

Finally...

Add to Obama and Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and you have all the ingredients for a historic meltdown.

And The New York Times will blame Bush.

November 2, 2008.