quakerboy
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Thu Feb-14-08 07:40 PM
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Why is experience important? |
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No.. Really. Why is it important?
It strikes me that with all the different types of leadership and life experience, what weights experience in politics so heavily in our considerations?
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Mz Pip
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Thu Feb-14-08 07:44 PM
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Edited on Thu Feb-14-08 07:44 PM by Mz Pip
pretty crappy Presidents who had lots of "experience". Nixon comes to mind.
Eisenhower didn't have legislative experience and he didn't wreck the country.
It's a talking point. McCain has been around for years so I guess he has experience - experience in voting wrong on all sorts of issues.
Mz Pip :dem:
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Thu Feb-14-08 07:46 PM
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2. Because when it comes to a really important issue like knowing |
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whether or not you should go to war or not you will make the right decision
oops never mind
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Thu Feb-14-08 07:48 PM
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3. Experience can be good. Obama has the kind that is good. Hillary doesn't. |
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If a candidate's experience is mainly her husband's experience, that doesn't count for much. If it's 6 years of nonstop selling out in the senate, that doesn't count for much either.
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Thu Feb-14-08 07:55 PM
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5. no one has the experience to be a president, |
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unless he's been president. that's sound kind of zen, doesn't it?
seriously, that's why they hire advisors.
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Thu Feb-14-08 08:02 PM
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6. It's not as important as some make it to be. |
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A person can have twenty years of experience, or one year of experience twenty times.
I'll always remember back to my early days as an engineering officer in the merchant marine. I had a new second assistant engineer's license, and took a job on a San Clemente class tanker, a type I'd never sailed on even as a third engineer. The old chief engineer asked me if I'd sailed on this class of ship before, and when I told him I hadn't, he said
"That's good. At least you haven't picked up any bad habits."
I used that line a few times myself when I was a chief engineer and had a young pup come aboard.
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