Barack the Vote! and I Like Mike! What Kind of Experience Matters?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) January 5, 2008 -- Columbus, Ohio- First I must confess; my enthusiasm for Obama and Huckabee rises from my disdain for status quo politicians. Two things I would like to see this year is the NFL Patriots put down and the McCain and Clinton machines sidelined. So far it looks like the Patriots are tougher than Team Clinton.

Now to the experience question; does a president need all of this so called experience that Hillary Clinton and John McCain claim to have? A better question is what kind of experience do Clinton and McCain really have? I believe once you are president you have full choice of the finest advisors from both parties. I think Huckabee could quote Proverbs, "There is wisdom in many counselors." And surely Senator Obama has a few wise counselors from his Ivy League background.

Wise cabinet choices and foreign policy advisors could plug the "experience" gap for almost any candidate. Unfortunately this doesn't prevent a candidate from opining on something he or she knows little about. Ironically after the Benazir Bhutto assassination the pundits on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, et al. gave wings to the erroneous fact that this event would be a plus for Clinton and McCain the so called "experience" candidates. Each of the 14 or so running for president rushed out press releases and made shallow Wikipedia level statements-in attempts to display their foreign policy virility.

When hit directly with the no experience charge, Huckabee or Obama should immediately ask: what kinds of experience do you mean; twenty five or more years on the public teat-of surviving? Twenty-five years of large professions and little deeds? Does seniority denote competency? When we hear a candidate in their best "phony-I'll take care of you voice" proclaim they have been fighting for 25 or 35 years for change-shouldn't we conclude they must not be very good at the "change" thing? Change means doing not just crowing. Change is having an opinion and a will-not changing as the wind blows or bowing to focus group tested wording.

The Iowa Caucus illustrates my level of frustration with government is not unique. As a Reluctant Republican I would have to take parts of four or five the candidates to make one close-to-ideal candidate. Perhaps we could take Obama's oratorical eloquence, Huckabee's wit, Romney's hair, Ron Paul's free market and Austrian Economics, and perhaps Duncan Hunters foreign policy. Most of all, I wonder if the electorate will ever realize government can give you nothing it first does not take from you. Whether we elect a Republican, Democrat, or other, until the "something-for-nothing- mentality" recedes, little progress will be made. While wringing hands over global warming, how about some consideration of financial sustainability? Maybe Global Debting, is more a risk than Global Warming.

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