Reply #17: still need to clam down [View All]

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Um, you must not have read my post above where I stated that his experience in the national Senate WAS qualifying experience to be in the White House.

I also made a very good arguement regarding the State Senate. The sate senate is on a much much smaller level than the national senate and even smaller level than the presidency. I pointed out that if you were a local regional director... that wouldn't qualify you to be national director. It might qualify you to be state director. I also used the McDonald's example.

Obama has experience making local state laws. That is not experience that is in anyway closely connected with the decisions he will have to make in the White House. It is not experience that is connected to the White House at all. I am perfectly willing to discuss why I do not think that State Senate is a qualifier to be in the White House. It is a nice plus to mention on the resume, but i don't think it is a qualifier.

Being in the national Senate does make him qualified. But other candidates have also served in the National Senate for longer than he has.

I think the best arguement is his judgement, and you can use the Iraq War to defend that arguement. Though I wonder what he would have done if he had been in the Senate at the time... he still has opposing that war from the start on his record as a plus.

But please do not pretend that State Senate makes you qualified to be president.

I am not one of those irrational Hillbots, or crazy Edwards supporters. I support these candidates strongly, but I never let support cloud my judgement and have never bad mouthed or made a personal attack on Obama. Even over the gay rights issues that some try to pin him on, and I'm GAY.

I am simply laying things out how I honestly see them.