Nobody is qualified for the job until they actually have the job. That's why the qualification should be one's character.
Obama's a politician, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word. He got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist.
But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word, in the sense of choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-speak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote. It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican. The debate should be over: "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".
Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican
Ideologically, Obama's a Republican -- More precisely he's a neoliberal (no relationship to liberal at all) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism .
Doing what is good for transnational corporations is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican, "What's good for GM is good for America."
He did a job on everybody.
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