John McCain just stole all the wind from Barack Obama's sails. You heard me right. While this election is far from over, Obama's biggest problem is still Obama, and McCain's selection of Sarah Palin just proved it to the world.

Palin has a lot going for her. She is a maverick - she has bucked heads with the Alaska GOP on several occasions. She is pro-life and she is willing to walk the walk - her youngest child has Downs Syndrome and she knew it prior to giving birth, yet chose to take on the "inconvenient" challenges. She is pro-Second Amendment - she is a Life Member of the NRA and understands that the Second is not about duck hunting. She is personable - she won the title of Miss Congeniality when she was a Miss Alaska beauty pageant contestant. She is easy on the eyes - something that should not be a factor in politics, but too many Americans vote for candidates based upon who has the best haircut. She has held a real job - and a tough one at that. She and her husband run a commercial fishing business.

And, she is a woman. Many hard-line feminists won't support her because of her position on abortion, but there are a significant number of women who will support for her because she is a woman, just as a significant number of women supported Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. Some women suggest they are insulted by McCain's choice and call it pandering, and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to appease disenfranchised Clinton supporters entered into the decision. How many times have we have heard in the news from Clinton's supporters that "it is time for a woman to become president." To deny this truth is to deny reality, just as it would be to deny that some men will not support Palin because she is a woman.

Palin has also re-energized the Republican base. Many of us don't trust McCain. He has a poor history with conservatives - it includes trampling on First and Second Amendments, not being a staunch supporter of securing our borders, etc. Since announcing Palin has his running mate 48 hours ago, McCain raised over $4 million and a lot of disenfranchised conservatives who would have otherwise not voted, written in Ron Paul, or voted for McCain begrudgingly, now find reason and genuine hope to pull the lever.

But, none of the above explains why Obama is Obama's biggest problem.

You see, the Obama camp, right now, has a big complaint they want to share with America about Sarah Palin - she is too inexperienced and not ready to be president.

Palin, of course, has more experience than Obama does, despite being younger. She has held the executive position of being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Obama's response? Well, it was a town of less than 7,000 people - like that matters. She has held the executive position of governor of Alaska. Obama's response? Well, it is the least-populous state in the nation (not including the 51st through 57th states Obama has visited). Palin's executive experience even trumps Clinton's executive experience (Clinton, as First Lady, made important executive decisions, such as choosing White House china patterns and deciding which lamp to throw at Bill when she was mad).

Obama's executive experience includes... well, nothing. Even the Daily Kos, desperate to come up with something, claims "Obama has spent the last 18 months leading one of the most brilliant and well-organized campaigns in political history. That's 'executive experience...'" While that's not even a worthy comparison, it isn't even true. The leader of Obama's campaign is David Plouffe, his campaign manager.

The second, and more important problem, is that when your chief complaint is that your opponent's vice presidential choice is the same complaint your opponent has of you - the headliner - it means that you've got nothing substantive to work with, and the only thing filling your sails is the hot air billowing from your mouth.