They're perhaps the toughest jobs in the world, but for some reason they draw all kinds of applicants.
But what is it, specifically, that qualifies a candidate to be president or vice president of the United States? Can anyone other than a former president or VP have the necessary experience?
About.com guest writer Jack Kerwick examines the charges of inexperience being leveled against Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and finds them to be without substance.
From the column
... In spite of the seismic energy that seemed to have resurrected a largely lethargic and disillusioned conservative base, there were even some on the Right that were less than enthusiastic with McCain’s choice of Palin because of the latter’s alleged “lack of experience.” Their concern is that since McCain and Republicans generally have made Barack Obama’s “inexperience” a key issue in this presidential race, Palin’s addition to the ticket threatens to nullify this strategy.
I reject the argument from inexperience, whether it is used against Palin, Obama, or any politician running for the presidency.
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Comments
Over the next few days and weeks all the obamatron drones will snap out of their trance like state when they discover how they have been fooled by a platform built on a thin tissue of deceit. Obama lies and the liberal media backs up those lies because there is nothing else to prop up his rhetoric with. Google “Obama LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES”. Also find the various failed attempts to counteract that list with more lies.
Obama has a long time association of many unsavoury characters incuding Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi, Auchi (Batcher, 2008) and his pastor the Rev Jeremiah Wright who tells his congregation to sing “God damn America” (ABCNews, 2008)
Obama was a rabble-rousing Chicago street thug (Politico, 2008) before becoming a state and a US senator. His senate stint has been sub optimal at best with a very liberal voting record (Friel Et Al, 2008). His only *executive* experience was the failed chairmanship at CAC (Kurts, 2008) were he had a very close relationship with Bill Ayers the unrepentant terrorist, an association he desperately wants to be kept hidden. Obama tried strong-arming the Justice department to stop any talk about his close friend Bill Eyers (Politico, 2008) – this will come back to bite him soon.
Obama’s so called *change* was born out of the communist manifesto (Zimbio, 2008). He is using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as his guide to implement *change* through social engineering and deceit. He practiced and perfected this dark art as a rabble-rousing thug in the streets of Chicago (TheNation, 2008) and now wants to do the same in your towns and streets. Don’t fall for this; his win will be your loss of freedom and liberty.
Nancy Peloci’s said he is “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time.” These are words of a fool desperately trying to get America to accept Obama. But Americans are not fools; they see the Obama sales gimmick as a hard sale scam pushing a defective product.
So what do we really know about Obama? Nothing other than Bill Clinton believes he has the mindset of a Chigao street thug (Politico, 2008), that his closest associates all hate America (Free Republic, 2008), and that he is the darling of the liberal media (Crouere, 2008). That’s it, thats all we know of him. So Is Obama experienced enough to be leader of the free world? No!