Obama not experienced enough...? How about this guy...?

[SaveElmer]

The last President from Illinois...

Four terms in the state legislature, and one term in Congress....

He did pretty well as I recall!!!!

[usregimechange]

1. Senator and Constitutional Law Professor...

[Hosnon]

6. I saw that for the first time on CNN tonight. Also President of Harvard

Law Review.

I decided tonight that right now, he is my frontrunner. Now I want to see him on issues.

[ripple]

8. He proposed a detailed plan for Iraq today

Watching it on CSPAN now. It's a realistic plan and it gets our troops out ASAP, without causing further chaos in Iraq.

The most significant thing about this speech for me is that OBAMA IS CLEARLY RUNNING IN 2008!

:woohoo:

[Catchawave]

2. Oh, I agree, the "experience"

argument is so silly. Otherwise we'd be "Mo'Joementum 2008" right now :evilgrin:

[BluegrassDem]

3. He led the country through war

and seems to have made good judgments. Obama would have something to great to fall back on if opponents start throwing out the experience stuff.

[Doctor_J]

4. Obama is alot more experienced than Smirky

For one thing, he's actually been employed.

[rep the dems]

5. As I recall, Lincoln actually lost the last election he was in prior

to his being elected President. And he beat the guy that he was running against for Senate.

[beaconess]

7. The experience claim is largely BS

I don't think I've ever voted for a presidential candidate based upon whether they had a lot of experience in federal government.

If that were the deciding factor, I would have voted for:

George H.W. Bush over Bill Clinton
George H.W. Bush over Michael Dukakis

And I would have voted for Joe Lieberman over just about anyone in the 2004 primaries.

The experience argument, in my view, is really only ever used AGAINST a candidate that someone doesn't want to vote for based on other reasons. It is rarely used IN FAVOR of a candidate.