If someone at work blurts out something about politics or how much want Senator Obama to win or how much they hate George W. Bush or they regurgitate some meme that Sarah Palin isn’t experienced, just take a deep breath and ask them the following questions:

• What is the Chosen One’s philosophy or What does he believe? Usually, the person will murmur for a bit or even throw their hands up in disgust since…well, they really can’t pin him down. If you happen to work with women, you can start to shed light on the way he treated Hillary during the Primaries. Women don’t seem to like when men pick on women, even in politics.
• What’s he done in the Senate for the past 4 years besides run for President the last two? He says he opposed the Iraq War, but he was not a U.S. Senator back in 2003. But what else has he done?
• What a bill has he championed or brought the Senate floor? Does he have McCain/Feingold to stand on (even though it wouldn’t be the greatest thing to boast about these days)? Did he offer up a middle-class tax-cut for those he truly cares about?
• What did he do in the Illinois Senate? His time in Chicago will probably start to bubble up from here on in.
• Do you know what sort of people he’s surrounded himself with? Everyone probably knows about Rev. Wright, but like his grandmother, he was thrown under the bus. Bring up Bill Ayers and you’ll get the standard “Who?” and there’s where you can throw out every other cretin Barack has in his closet that he doesn’t want anyone to know about.

Anyone who buys into the argument that Barack Obama is some poster child for change and hope probably will make excuses from now until the November elections. Don’t worry about them, try to get the people who may not know enough about the man and once they hear more about him, won’t worry about his skin color but will worry about what he wants to do with this country.