On the subject of “experience”, none of the candidates have any real experience at the helm in the Oval Office. If they had any, they would be incumbents. As far as I can see, they all bring the same amount of experience but just in different ways. The “ready at day one” stuff is hogwash.
The president isn’t changing lightbulbs, writing reports, monitoring alarm systems et cetera. The president oversees everything to make sure it’s in the hands of the most capable. In other words, the president makes sure some moron like Donald Rumsfeld isn’t the Secretary of Defense.
So what do we go on? Well … one important deciding factor – perhaps the most important – is how they run their campaigns. Clinton is in major debt and had to resort to attack ads which don’t work. She won West Virginia because the worthless rednecks won’t vote for a black guy. She seemed to be proud of extolling some of the ugly character traits of the lesser educated, isolated and poor people in the Appalachian Mountains. It’s not really a win for Clinton as it was a loss for Obama, and for the nation.
Obama is financially in the black (no pun intended) and ran a negative attack ad-free campaign. He unites and inspires people, stays calm and keeps focussed on his campaign. Obama’s campaign is open, clean and honest; three traits that are long gone in the current political landscape. Like Clinton, his family is in the wings but not completely isolated from the political process.
Obama is a change. He’ll bring a fresh start and some new people. He’ll be able to work with the nearly useless Congress with a degree of efficiency, if he can get by the inevitable GOP stonewalling.
Then we have McCain. Some how he appeals to the uneducated and paranoid who think he’s “stong on terrorism”. Right. We’ll be safe, secure and prosperous just like with Dubya. McCain is old – literally and figuratively. He represents everything that is wrong with this once-great nation and everything that needs to go.
We can’t take 4 more years of military/corporate rule.
