Believe it or not, I've had Barack Obama supporters try to convince me that a vote for Sen. Obama is a vote for moderate, middle-of-the-road consensus politics. And that may be true in France or Germany, but not in the US of A.

Peter Kirsanow heard Dick Morris say that Obama was "not a radical" and he had the same reaction I did:

consider that according to recent polling, Obama's positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:

• Obama supports giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
• Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions
• Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions
• Obama would cut funding for research and development of "unproven" missile defense systems
• Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government
• Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children
• Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortions

Kirsanow goes on to cover other areas where Sen. Obama is far outside the mainstream.  I have racked my brain and I can't find a definition of "moderate" that would include the politics and ideology of Barack Obama.

That doesn't mean that Obama is wrong on the issue (though I think he is). John Adams and Alexander Hamilton were radicals, too, and I think they were absolutely right about the big issues of their day.  But if someone had told the British parliament that they were moderates, he would have been laughed out of the room.

Obama runs as a moderate....why aren't we laughing?