The guy was the editor of the law review at Harvard. He writes and speaks with eloquence. You simply cannot say with any fairness that he is dumb. To be frank, there is a whiff of racism to it, like black people can't be smart.

Mike, I'm sorry, but you started the "dummy" talk. And I don't see anything resembling racism.

IMO, Palin and Obama are equally unqualified, for different reasons. Palin has a very limited intellectual base and strikes me as nothing but a "me-too" type of politician. Obama has a ton of ideas - and most are apocalyptically dangerous for the United States.