Serious question: How will Obama overcome the attack "He has one year experience in the senate"

before he started running for president"?

Imagine McCain asking people whether the country should elect someone who has "one year of experience in the Senate" before he started running.

"Can we afford to take that risk in these times?"

Obama is a disaster waiting to happen for Democrats if he got nominated.

I didn't know that.

Rumsfeld and Cheney, just to name a couple, have had years and years of experience in government, and they suck.

That's how you answer that question.

Just to overcome the fear of a military presidency they gave him a university to run.

There's no comparison.

I'm afraid when the swoon factor pales that we will lose in November, after McCain calls him "young man."

I'd rather have someone more seasoned and less charismatic.

The Audacity of Hype.

What if a major terrorist attack or threat happens sometime this year near the GE or something massive like economic collapse.

I'm telling you now, they will run to the safest hands by a mile and it won't be Obama if McCain is on the Rep side.

Thats a major worry and a big reason i canot side with a 1 term junior senator.

and eight years in the Illinois Senate.

Why are you spreading misinformation with your thread titles?

Elected in 2004. Served in 2005 and 2006. Started presidential campaign in February 2007.

Why can't you get your facts straight before you publish them?

point to other qualities.

If you have experience, and the other guy doesn't, you pound on your experience. If you have other qualities that the other guy doesn't have, you pound on them. It's basic, really.

I keep hearing more and more about Rezko. I think his dealings with Rezko over the last 17 years will create huge problems for Barack.

If he makes it past Rezko, the GOP spin machine will make short work of smashing him, and we'll be posting about where we went wrong, and how awful that war President McCain is going to be for the next 4 long years.

If he makes it to the nom and the Clintons don't smash him he'll do just fine. And he's very strong against McCain on many different levels.

He received donations from a big Democratic donor for years JUST like any other Democrat elected official. His law firm had him work 5 hours for a development deal on behalf of a client of Rezmar. And finally Rezko owned an empty plot near Obama`s house and subsequently Obama bought a small piece of it to increase his backyard. Where is the scandal?

read the summary from the Chicago Sun-Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/757340,CST-NWS-watchdog24.article

...are the gridlock, ineffectual lawmakers, bootlicking of their special interest overlords, and problems remaining unsolved...then this bogeyman of "experience" is DOA.

Duke

perhaps there are some posters that would be an exception.

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since the beginning of time and the country has never been more fucked up than it is now? Can we afford to take the risk of more of McCain in these times?

Get it ? ...

You lied ....again.

It would seem that the less experience a candidate has in the Senate the more advantage over the others he has to the voters, IMHO

Education:

BA in political science (with a specialization in international relations) from Columbia University.

JD Graduate of Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude).

President of the Harvard Law Review (the first ever African American).


Experience:

Civil rights attorney (turned down a prestigious judicial clerkship1)

Constitutional law professor.

First Black editor of The Harvard Law Review.

Community organizer.

State Senator.

Chairman of the Illinois State Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

US Senator.

Member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Environment and Public Works Committee, and Veterans ’ Affairs Committee.

Author.

Husband and father of two daughters.

Board member of the Joyce Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.


Honors:

Grammy award winner (Spoken Word category).

Honored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (for narration of one of his books).

Honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston (for among other things, "advancing and protecting the interests of the less fortunate"2)


Seems rather experienced to me...


References:

1. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682433/bio

2. http://www.umb.edu/news/2006news/releases/may/060526_ob...


http://www.barackobama.com /
http://hopefundamerica.com /

I think he's terrific, just not yet.

People like that in elections with recession and war.

Serious question back:

Everything McCain has ever said in the Senate is public record. Every fundraiser he has attended has resulted in photos taken with Enron officials, organied crime members, etc. How will he overcome that?

That ought to shut the little bastard up.

Look how far their experience took us.

* had all that experience too. He had all that experience of failing at everything he did, and boy that really worked out great!

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(1) He will choose a VP with experience
(2) He will compare his resume with Lincoln's (and probably a few other presidents)
(3) He will emphasize that a leader is someone who brings in talent, and will probably start naming the people who will be in his cabinet during the general election campaign.

good shape in the event of an Obama nom. I fear, however, that "not enough experience" will be only the tip of the trashing, thrashing, and pummeling he'll be subjected to. The Kerry swiftboaters will look like a bunch of Sunday school teachers in comparison to what the r's will have in store for Obama.

I think that'll do fine.

Only among some Democrats. You have to keep in mind that Democrats have to get through a general election to get to the White House. They tend to forget that.

This is where Barack will have trouble. McCain's explanation of what should be done will be coming from a man who served long and honorably in Viet Nam and was a prisoner of war. He also has years of experience including strong foreign policy credentials. Obama's explanation of what should be done will be coming from an earnest, well-meaning guy who has not even a little foreign policy experience. Zilch. Democrats tend to be too self-centered in their thinking as they choose a candidate in their primaries. They think that if enough of them like a candidate, then of course the rest of the country will. This is rather shocking considering who the American people elected in the last two presidential elections.

If Obama continues with his message of change and unity, he'll destroy McCain.

:kick:

He was the Governor of Arkansas at the time. Never served in Congress.

Here's a video that includes Clinton's responses then to those who criticized his lack of experience. It appears that Clinton's response when he was debating GHWB also included the words "I represent real hope for change." Clinton should sue Obama for copyright infringement. (Kidding.) http://youtube.com/watch?v=FUm7tkgFGYs

we'd have a 3-way race between Biden, Richardson & Dodd right now.