Obama is inexperienced.

Reasons to agree

  1. Obama ran for the senate, in Illinois, after his main rival dropped out of the race because of a sex scandal.
  2. Obama has never been responsible for balancing a budget.
  3. Obama is one of the youngest senators.
  4. Obama would be tied for the 2nd youngest person to be elected president.
  5. Obama has never accomplished anything outside of the classroom.
  6. Obama has never had a job in the marketplace.
  7. Obama has never run an organization.
  8. Obama has never been the boss.
  9. Obama has never hired someone.
  10. Obama has never had to fire someone.
  11. Obama has never set goals for a team, and been responsible for meeting them.
  12. Obama has never conducted an exit interview.
  13. Saying Obama is inexperienced is not code for not voting for him because he is black. He really is inexperienced.
  14. A professor at Vanderbilt University showed that the majority of those who said they were concerned about Romney’s flip-flopping were really concerned about Romney’s Mormonism. It might be the same with Barak. People who say they are concerned about Obama’s inexperience, might really be showing that they won’t vote for a black man. But if you take this kind of logic to the extreme, you could never criticize a minority, or you are proving that you are a bigot. The fact is Romney changed his position on abortion. Maybe this should be a big deal; maybe it shouldn’t be a big deal. Yes it was exaggerated, and people used it to justify other more embarrassing reasons for not voting for him, but the fact of the matter is that Obama is inexperienced.
  15. Not everyone has "lived overseas", seems to have a "good family", and did well in law school should run for president. In a country of 301 million people we should be able to find people to run for president who have accomplished something outside of college.
  16. Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, and Clinton were more experienced than Obama.
  17. I was watching Bill Maher, and he wanted to respond to the accusation that Obama was inexperienced. He pointed out that when someone asked Bush who president Musharif was, when Bush was running for president, that he didn't know. And then Bill went on to say that at-least Obama knows who Musharif is. This stupid attempt at logic is what fuels so much hatred of politics from normal people, and fuels so much hatred of republicans. This is one of the scariest things about our future. We live in a time when opinion makers, that get paid millions of dollar, have no concept of rational or critical thinking. I guess if you are an idiot like Bill Maher, and we point out that Obama is inexperienced you could pick a very narrow test, that is supposed to determine who is experienced and who is not, that helps your guy. But if we wanted a someone who can name all the presidents of all the countries, we would just have Ken Jennings run the country. The simple fact of the matter that Bush, who was a successfully two term governor of the 2nd most populated state, was more experienced (in the sense of the word that you would use to evaluate presidential candidates) than Obama who hasn't even been in the senate for a full term.

Reasons to disagree
  1. Obama has lived overseas. This is a good experience. Mitt Romney lived overseas.
  2. Obama did very well at Harvard law school. This is very difficult. It shows that you are smart, can buckle down, and study an issue out. Romney did very well at Harvard law school, and this reflects well on both of them.
  3. Obama seems to be a good husband and father, like Romney. This takes good negotiation skills, and means that he is somewhat balanced. Obama certainly has a better relationship with his spouse than Hillary does.
  4. Like Romney, Obama does not follow stereotypes that have been set for him. People always ask if Obama is black enough. People like Jan Mickelson, always asked Romney if he was Mormon-enough. Like his father, Romney kept alcohol in his house for visitors, and people said he was a bad Mormon, because he once agreed not to change abortion laws in Massachusetts. Standing up against stereotypes is a good experience.
  5. Obama quotes JFK that we should never negotiate out of fear, but that we should never fear to negotiate. He then says that he would have one on one meetings with the president of Iran. Like a lot of things Barak says, this is very idealist and naïve. It is not fear that keeps us from negotiating with the president of Iran, but honor. The president of Iran kills intellectuals, tortures political opponents, crushes anyone who writes something in a newspaper or blog that is seen as criticizing him. You don’t sit down for a photo-opportunity and coffee with THE GUY who supports Hezbollah, funds insurgents in Iraq, denies the old holocaust, but promises a brand new holocaust. It is honor for the dead that he has killed and wants to kill that keeps us from speaking to the president of Iran. It is respect for the political prisoners that have been silenced that keeps us from having a photo-op with the president of Iran. It is respect for a free press that keeps us from having coffee with the president of Iran. It is HOPE for a future that is not dominated by religious extremest, that keeps us from meeting with the president of Iran. It is not fear.


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