Mr. Judge would now have us justify that Obama is an “empty suit,” on the grounds that Bush was also, it turns out, an empty suit.  His accomplishments in law school qualify him for a position in a presitigious law firm, not for the presidency of the United States.  In fact, the country was duped by Bush.  The electorate “trusted,” that his governorship in Texas, and his “alleged” miltary career amounted to something.  Obama doesn’t even have either of these to make pretense over.  In other words, you’re saying, that people ought to vote for a hypocrite that has gone back on nearly every promise he made to support progressive leadership, on the grounds, that he’s as bad as Bush.  Huh!?
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Those GOP supporters weren’t so hot on “experience” in 2000 when they cheered the inauguration of a man who couldn’t even say the names of important foreign leaders. And the way they sneer at Senator Obama’s alleged “inexperience,” you’d think he was some 17-year old kid fresh out of high school (which, I’ll grant, he may look like in comparison with his almost doddering opponent). They’d like voters to forget Obama’s distinguished scholastic record and Harvard Law degree - including his tenure as Law Review Editor - and his service in community development work in Illinois. They’d also like voters to forget Obama’s role as a professor in one of the country’s premier law schools (University of Chicago) where he taught Constitutional Law (yeah, that Constitution - the one George W. doesn’t seem to know much about except for what John Yoo and David Addington tell him). True, Senator Obama can’t match W’s record of “miltary service”, which seems to have featured cushy assignments based on his family money and connections and lots of extended leaves so he could play politics instead of maintaining his flight proficiency. But, as Joe Conaston says, the GOP leaders and the present administration don’t seem to have learned much for all their vaunted “experience.”

Big B, you couldn’t have misjudged me more.  As far as I’m concerned, McCain is a pathetic old fool, and the invasion of Iraq, perhaps the worst and most inhuman tragedy that has befallen this country.  Yet, you can still hear media broadcasts that pretend that Obama’s pretense of opposing the Iraqi invasion was noble evidence of his “sound judgment,” when he actually did the most important thing you can do to perpetuate an illegal war: he voted to fund every demand made by the Bush admin. to finance that invasion.  But neither Obama or mainstream media ever mention this inconvenient fact.  Obama’s hypocrisy is stunning.

It isn’t that Obama simply lacks “foreign policy,” or “battle” experience; he lacks “any” experience.  He has a charming smile, and a smooth tongue, when he’s scripted.  When he isn’t scripted, he hems and haws, trips over his own words, and generally sounds like a inexperienced lawyer.  Is this what we’re supposed to accept for the presidency of the free world?  The man is a ham and a poseur, a deceitful, bellicose, easily manipulated, and ethically challenged imposter.  People like this guy, just to the extent that they “don’t” know him.  Do your own research, but do it with some thoroughness.  Try to get beyond the mainstream media song and dance, and his Hope and Change jingle.  Its all bull.....

Better do some research on the state of American and how it got here.  The axis of evil in the current White House, even the underhanded lying of the Clinton Admin. points to a need for a change of direction.

Do we want to continue to destabilize other governments for commerce?  Look what Americans have today.  A lot less.  The imperialist, illegal attack on Iraq, Vietnam, Central America, ad naseum has been done for the cause of corporate greed and control of the people of America and other countries.  President Cheney supports genocide in Darfur and at home. 

McCain doesn’t know foreign policy.  He knows how to bomb. And he got caught.  He’s no war hero, he was just shot down and imprisoned.  So were a lot of others. The heroes of those illegal conflicts were those who refused to participate. 

I am deeply upset that our young people are being killed in Iraq.  My advice is, don’t go.  Join up only if it is known without doubt that the world and not Big Oil will be helped by our military actions.

McCain is a warmonger, Bush was an idiot.  If McCain gets in we will have an idiot warmonger.

Wow, the blind leading the blind.  What kind of bullshit are you people talking about here.  Experience is “at” something.  It’s not a thing by itself.  The effort to justify Obama’s pathetic lack of experience, in addition to all his other problems, has reached ludicrous proportions.  If I’m a deceitful and corruption-ridden politician, I can be a beginner at it, or I can be experienced at being a political criminal.  For those that value political criminality, the more experienced you are “at” it, the better.  If a politician seeks to expand his horizons, to deepen his awareness of other cultures and societies with increased travel and study when he reaches these destinations, the more experienced he is in this area, the better.  If you want to drive a car, is anyone here suggesting that there is no value in being an experienced driver?  What incoherent bullshit?  If you’re an effective and honest politician, then the more experience you have being effective and honest, the better.  According to the imbecility I see in your posts, there is no difference between someone that has just learned how to fly an airplane, and someone that has been flying an airplane for 20 years, right?  You are the morons, that have given us Obama.  Thanks a lot; and you all love him.  Obama, Obama, Obama.  I can’t believe what a bunch of saps you are.

...given the overall voter intelligence in this country, I’m afraid that McCain will be seen as a smarter version of Bush and therefore a more attractive candidate given Obamas so called inexperience.

In politics, the more things change, the more everything remains the same.  Washington cannot keep up with the world today because they have doomed themselves to commit the same old mistakes.

The useless layers, countless cronies, and same old bureaucrats continue to create chaos to fill their lifelong dream of continued service.  Nothing can be fixed and nothing is ever completed.  If so, they would not be needed.

McCain is too old to be a Senator, let alone President.  His views are as outdated as he is, and the insiders do not trust him.  He just might go off on his own and destroy the insiders plans.  McCain is out of control.  Those who know him best fear him becoming Commander in Chief.  The man is nuts!

Obama is inexperienced and will be nothing more than a puppet on a string just like GW Bush.  Except, GW was a complete moron who couldn’t even speak correctly enough to get THEIR message through to the sheeple.  Obama is the prime meat Washington wants onboard. Someone they can control.  Someone who will do what they tell him to do.  Someone who can speak and not sound like a complete idiot. He isn’t the media darling for nothing. 

At any rate, nothing will CHANGE and all HOPE will be lost once the economy completely falls into the toilet due to the MASSIVE DEBT “CONSERVATIVES” have left us with.  They are just holding back the bad news until after the election.

McCain was disasterously wrong about Vietnam as well as Iraq and he sees Iraq through the lens of that national humiliation. His “experience” is old and irrelevant to today’s threat from extremist terrroists.  If I were Obama, I would take on the “experience” factor quite directly.  McPain, as we call him, may not have the highest IQ or a keen memory, but his vaunted heroism and experience are wide open to deconstruction.

Mr. Joe, you forgot to mention that Obama’s team of old Democrat hands includes Allbright, Armitage, ZbigDaddy Brezinski, Holbrook, and most of the hacks and retreads from Clinton/Carter. Chicago Boys for economic advisors. The only new face at the White House and State Dept. will be Obama’s, if he is elected. Same old same old.

Not wrong decisions by their lights. They were smart enough to know that you don’t effectively counter non-state terrorists with a military machine, but with intelligence gathering, cooperation with other nations and police work. They knew this full well, but went ahead and attacked Muslim countries anyway. They knew they were making the problem worse and driving recruiting by extremist organizations. THEY KNEW IT!!! The old hands (or at least the Bush II people)had bigger priorities than making America more safe. They wanted endless war so they could loot the economy and roll back the Progressive advances made in the U.S. during the past century. Can’t people get that?!! The evidence is in for all to see.

Political experience corrupts you, that’s a no-brainer. It’s better to elect someone relatively new to politics, with wide experience in other fields.