A man who served 8 years in the state legislature and 2 years in congress ran for president

[liberaldemocrat7]

and won. People today question whether Barack Obama has served enough as a public servant to run for president. I say that he does. Barack Obama served several years in the Illinois state senate and he has served 2 years in the US Senate. So you see Barack Obama has served as many years as the man who served as the man I mentioned in the title who ran for president and won.

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Abraham Lincoln today would look approvingly upon Barack Obama whose walking in his footsteps in Illinois, the very state and congress that Lincoln has served.

So next time you get people questioning the experience Barack Obama has, then tell them Obama has as much experience as Abraham Lincoln.

[hfojvt]

1. also far more political experience than President Grant

"One of the most dangerous symptoms of our times is that we are beginning to distrust the common people; we think that political, social, and even religious leaders should be men of wealth. It is regaled as the height of absurdity to send to the national legislature a farmer or a mechanic, and almost as ridiculous to send such a one to the legislature in many of our states. The study of genealogy would convince most of us that our ancestors were quite every-day sort of people, who were more familiar with blacksmithing than with Blackstone, and who knew more about raising stock than manipulating stocks. Yet those same men worked out a political system that was the wonder, and is still the admiration of the world."

Arthur Hastings Grant 1898 "The Grant Family" introduction

"It is difficult to see how a man who knows that in his veins flows the blood of men who set at defiance kings, bishops, councils and royal governors, and seized the rights that were refused them, can meekly bow his neck to wear the collar of any party boss, or sit inactive while the franchises of city and state are being exploited by grasping corporations, whose paid representatives sit in council, assembly, and congress." ibid.

[laconicsax]

2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but

pResident *'s political experience was only 4 or so years as governor of Texas before he stole the 2000 election.

[Eric J in MN]

7. Bush was governor of Texas for 6 years. (NT)

NT

[BooScout]

3. He won't be President in my lifetime....

Face it........America won't elect a black man for President anytime soon.....no matter what his qualifications or abilities.

[Hekate]

4. Strangely enough, Obama's personal biography might just do it

He could be the "bridge" this country needs to jump the final hurdle of race to get to the White House. I'm not saying it *will* happen, but it *could*. He is a very intriguing young man, and this might be the right time.

The Bush administration (p'tui, p'tui) has paved the way with some very high-profile appointments -- namely Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice. We may not like their politics or the company they keep, but General Powell and Dr. Rice have risen very high indeed.

I'm hoping Obama doesn't peak too soon, as the saying goes. We have a lot of good potential candidates already in the running on the Democratic side. But I'm hoping he goes far.

Hekate

[OneBlueSky]

5. good guy, but he'd never get elected . . . we need Gore in 2008 . . . n/t

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[Sleepless In NY]

6. If Ford doesn't win in Tennessee

Obama can forget 2008.