TJ wrote:
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
I'm voting for Obama, the candidate who has the wisdom and judgment to
make the important decisions, including picking a top-drawer running mate.
The respect I once had for McCain declines almost daily. He's not suited
by intellect or by temperament to be president, and his personal war
experience is completely irrelevant, strategically, tactically, and
morally. He's out of touch with today's realities, technologies, and
possibilities. Frankly, he reminds me of an aging barnyard rooster whose
world has passed him by.
He's a 72-year-old man with really serious health issues, a man who
could take sick and become incapacitated at a moment's notice, and who
does he pick for a running mate? A PTA mom with no experience on the
world stage, and why did he choose her? To pander to evangelicals and
women voters.
McCain would be a worse president than George W. Bush, who quite
probably is the worst president in the history of the United States, or
damned close to it.
The choice is clear...someone like Obama who can lead us into the
future, or someone like McCain...who will give us more of the same.
By the way, I appreciate your well-reasoned post.