McCain has years of experience working with legislation and legislators at the national level; he doesn’t have executive or leadership experience at any governmental level unless a year commanding a training squadron in the navy and the leadership of his senate staff counts as executive or leadership experience. While not in the navy, the same is true for Obama except much of his experience is at the state level and a couple of years at the national level. But the experience issue is a diversion used by Clinton and McCain for people who want an excuse to not vote for Obama because he is: a democrat, a liberal, not liberal enough, an intellectual, too black, not black enough, not a woman, on Rush Limbaugh’s list of people who hate America, a Moslem terrorist whose Christian minister hates America.

There is an axiom in politics that says: “If your campaign is weak on the issues, go after a weakness in your opponent unrelated to the issues. If your opponent has no weakness, make one up. Then repeat it often enough to make people believe it is the main issue in the campaign.”

If experience really mattered why would an incumbent president ever be voted out of office: Clinton should have lost to the first Bush; Reagan should have lost to Carter; Carter should have lost to Ford; and Roosevelt should have lost to Hoover. In a hypothetical election, if the governor of the state with the 2nd largest population ran against the governor of the state with the 32nd largest population, experience would mean that George W. Bush should beat Bill Clinton. But are Americans as a whole better off after nearly eight years of the more experienced governor than we were after eight years of the less experienced governor?

We’ve had good presidents with little experience and bad presidents with lots of experience. The really undecided voter should focus on policies, judgment, knowledge, character and the candidate’s advisors.

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u know i am actually an asian guy and i didn't know much about presidential condidates in america.......... i read few topics from the past few days about BARACk OBAMA and i think he deserve to be a president............. if i was an american citizen i would have gone for Obama............

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The first 'sentence' of this article after the title isn't even a sentence. How embarassing for you. You don't proofread your work and you want us to consider your opinion. Sad.

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This wiki article makes the argument that George Bush didn't have foreign policy experience when he took the oval office and that voters need to consider a candidates foreign policy experience when selecting which candidate to support in 2008. I couldn't agree more, which is why I absolutely will not be voting for Barack Obama. The man is indeed erudite and articulate. He may one day make a fine president. Unfortunately, he has minimal real-world, hands-on foreign policy experience. Yes, he served on a few committees. However, he really only served actively for about a year before he was influenced by the grassroots mania to launch a presidential campaign. I was always a domestic issue voter before Bush II. At this point though, there are so many utterly crucial foreign policy issues that threaten to plunge the U.S. and the world into dire straights that it is essential that the next president have the experience and the gumption to deal strategically and effectively in foreign policy matters. I'm not ready to hand the country over to what will essentially be an exercise in on-the-job training for Barack Obama when it comes to foreign policy. The man is over-reaching by a long shot.

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This article only dips into the discussion of Obama's experience. I was thinking about doing a detailed (Dreams from my Father heavily quoted ) background. And dividing his experience into some categories. I.E foreign policy , grassroots , health care... What do you think?

Remember this is a wiki. Don't be afraid to delete anything that doesn't fit or alter this entry in anyway. There's a history for a reason.

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