The sad thing about Ben Shapiro is that he's one of the nation's more capable movement conservative pundits. Let's begin:

Barack Obama is the Halle Berry of American politics -- he's a pretty, nonthreatening face who happens to be the right color and, therefore, demands our plaudits. Never mind that he was brought up by his white mother, went to a private high school and has spent about as much time facing down serious racism as Mitt Romney.

Did you know that going to a private high school innoculates one from having to face down serious racism? When a black kid enrolls, the principal gives him or her a magical voodoo talisman that the child may wear around his neck. There have been plans to implement this in public schools, too, but apparently there are some church-state issues involved, what will all of the magic voodoo this entails. It's a shame, really.

He's got African genes, and we're all supposed to pull the lever for him to prove to ourselves that we're not racists.

Really? I don't remember anyone telling me I had to vote for Carol Moseley Braun, Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton. And I didn't. Most people didn't. Perhaps some people actually think that Barack Obama would make a good president.

Obama is a candidate whose empty bombast could float a fleet of hot air balloons. "We are more than a collection of Red States and Blue States," Obama spouted on Super Tuesday during his victory speech. "We are, and always will be, the United States of America." This prompted my 14-year-old sister to exclaim, facetiously, "So that's why they call it the United States."

Clearly, Shapiro's sister is quite a stitch. I'd love to have heard what she had to say about Bush's most recent State of the Union address. As I recall, the State of the Union was "strong," and Bush was of the opinion that the American people are swell.

Obama is a candidate who knows less about foreign policy than Rick Salomon, who at least knows about Paris.

I don't know who that is.

He has suggested unilaterally invading Pakistan while inviting Muslim dictators to a sit-down, no questions asked.

... which reminds me of an interview with candidate Bush in 2000 during which it was revealed that the soon-to-be president didn't know the name of the Pakistani dictator, with whom, incidentally, our current government has held a number of no-questions-asked sit-downs. It also reminds me somewhat of al-Qaeda, the organization that attacked the U.S. in 2001 and which is based to a large degree in northwest Pakistan. Memmmmmmories....

He points to the gap between "worlds of plenty and worlds of want" as the source of Islamic terrorism. He states that the real threat to peace in the Middle East isn't Islamic extremism, it's "cynicism." He's Pollyanna on steroids.

How does that make him Pollyanna?

Obama is a candidate with the same amount of federal experience as Ken Salazar. Salazar is a Democratic senator from Colorado, elected in 2004.

Which is to say that both Obama and Salazar have more federal experience than Bush, Clinton, and Reagan had when they ran for president. Do go on!

[Ken Salazer] has actually been involved in major legislation.

As has Obama, who co-sponsored a 2005 immigration bill and attached amendments to another,