The Chicago Tribune has an amusing report on Barack Hussein Obama, who appeared last weekend on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos":

    Obama's criticism of Bush for his combative rhetoric came in answer to a question about whether the senator had the capacity to act ruthlessly when necessary if elected president.

    "It's not just talking tough, because the truth is nobody's talked tougher than George Bush over the last six years. Being tough means, first of all, not having to talk about it all the time," Obama said. . . .

    Without going into any specifics, Obama cited his testing in Chicago politics as a sign that he had an inner toughness. "Somebody who has arrived where I am out of Chicago politics has to have a little bit of steel in them," he said. "I have the capacity, I think, to make strong decisions even if they're unpopular, even if they're uncomfortable, even if sometimes I lose some friends."


So Obama says the first test of toughness is "not having to talk about it"--and he then proceeds to talk about how tough he is.

If Obama is being sincere, by his own standard he's a jellyfish.