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TJ[_3_]

wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:14:13 -0700, CalifBill wrote:

Actually is not obvious at all. Obama has no, zero, nada executive
experience.

You are overlooking the obvious. So far, he has run a successful
campaign. It may not seem like much, but, if you pay attention,
campaigns to show how a candidate behaves under pressure, his
organizational skills, finances, etc. My left leaning bias may be
showing, but so far, I haven't been impressed with McCain's campaign. I
have been with Obama's. However, this is where the fun starts. The next
10 weeks will be interesting. It's close. It's relatively clean. I'm
interested.

Candidates don't run campaigns anymore. That's what they hire campaign
managers to do.

Someone said during the primaries that the Presidency is no place for
on-the-job training. That sounds like something someone who has never
actually run something would say. Even Vice Presidents don't know what
it really involves to be President, though they probably are closer to
it than almost anybody else. As someone who has been an "XO" who later
became the "CO," I can tell you that until that responsibility actually
rests on your shoulders, you don't know what it is, and you soon find
out that many of the things you thought you could do can't be done after
all.

As there is no one running that has been President before, there isn't a
one of them that has any "experience." That's the case with at least
half of the elections in the history of the country. What makes this one
so different? What we need is someone with the ability to learn and
adapt, and to do it quickly, because the country might not have the time
to wait. Obama is young, and he's arrogant enough to still think he has
all the answers. McCain is seasoned, but is he so old that he can't
adapt to the situations he would face?

There is no clear choice in this election, if you ask me.

TJ