Are You Experienced?

Doesn't matter which candidate you are pro or con for - What a ridiculous article! Newsweek, you insult our intelligence.

But I guess your stance would probably be that why should intelligence matter?

Obama will win because he is the "establishment candidate". Now that Hillary is out of the picture so is universal health care and the doctors, lawyers, insurance companies and pharmaceutical pushers can sit back and watch the profits continue to roll in. Obama will take their money and talk about change but the most important thing American's might have got from this election "universal health care" came off the table before the election started. We are not leaviing Iraq. What will that do the newly formed Democracies in Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and Nepal? So what is the first thing Obama will change when he gets into the white house? Probably his mind about reforming the system that made him the most man in the world.

I bet he won't even have the stones to paint the white house black.

"NO AMERICAN LIFE IS WORTH IRAQI FREEDOM.
ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS NOT A REAL AMERICAN eddiewhere 2008."

We need to get out of Iraq and transfer responsibility and management of that country to the IRAQ's themselves. THEY SHOULD be backed by a multinational force led by Middle Eastern countries until they are able to fight extremist on their own.
Our unilateral approach in the MIDDLE EAST has to come to an end. ECONOMICALLY, IRAQ IS KILLING the average tax payer and making a few private contractors and oil firms rich.

We need Oil. WE NEED OIL. Therefore, getting rid of the Iranian regime is at the top of our agenda.
The majority in Iran want change but not under and American led invasion. It has to be done from within. We lost the support of moderate Arabs and Muslims over the last six years. Hopefully, PRESIDENT OBAMA can empower this group and encourage them to meet with their counterparts.

Inotherwords there should be an alliance between all moderates in the Middle East, JEWS, ARABs, MUSLIMS, ect... These forces must be self motivated by a common cause, Peace. IF this group can be strengthened they themselves will defeat or at least contain the force of extremism.
WE must strengthen the forces behind peace and weaken those against peace on both sides.

THE UNITED STATES CANNOT SOLVE THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WE CAN ONLY STRENGHTEN AND SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS.

IN THE SHORT RUN WE NEED MIDDLE EASTERN OIL. THIS COMPLICATES OUR ROLE OVER THERE.
WE Should have had an ENERGY SUMMIT TEN YEARS AGO. WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A TWENTY YEAR PLAN to RID OURSELVES of OIL DEPENDENCY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. TWENTY YEARS WILL GO BY LIKE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO START NOW.

THE most dangerous threats are the ones you do not see coming. LIKE CHINA, RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPEAN organized crime. Monitoring these entities will be our great challenge.
ARE WE READY FOR CYBER WAR. I DON't THINK SO.

Obama is neither experianced or qualified. He has flip flopped more than any other, has skewed the Bible, wants to increase taxes in an unstable economy, does not know anything about foreign policy, has not been to Iraq in many years, will put this country at risk, and will not win simply because Ameica does NOT need a manipulative liar again.

To Republicans....you rejected nominating this experienced war hero in 2000,you said not worth the candidate and instead gave us the worst President, average governor with no foreign policy experience, who accomplished nothing politically prior to 2000 in George W Bush.

Now John McCain manifesto just like G.W.Bush 3rd term. So I don't think Republicans should lecture anyone on who is a worthy candidate. You have failed in that category to decide who the next president.

Al Qaida is probably just as strong or stronger in Afghanistan and Pakistan so why do we continue to allocate a huge portion of our resources (140,000 troops and Billions of $ per month) to a country that needs to start learning to function on its own? Isn't it time to reassess what's in our best interest? How long do we stay and do we actually enforce previous benchmarks that were meant to accelerate progress?

If any of you're right wing nuts and bolts would actually read stuff for yourself rather than regurgitate whatever Fox News or Rush tell you then you'd see that Obama's Iraq War plan calls for us to stay in smaller numbers to fight AQ in Iraq but to stop fighting the Iraqis.

Get your heads out of the sand for once 'republicans' or better yet go anf buy another yellow ribbon magnet or flag to put on your car to show how patriotic you are because buying those trinkets really help our troops over there, if you cared you'd either volunteer for service, have your kids volunteer for service or you'd actually do something to help our troops. By the way, those yellow ribbons and flags are made in China, how's that to prove your patriotism?

There was no Al Qaida in Iraq before Bush/McCain invaded.According to our country's intelligence reports Under Bush/McCain Al Qaida has only grown stronger.George McCellan said everything in his book.Bush/McCain drove the US into a ditch in Iraq and made us all where we are still carry on .Before Bush/McCain invaded Iraq oil was $27/barrel.

To the benefit of Putin and Haliburton now it is $130.Bush/McCain were distracted planning the war in Iraq and allowed bin Laden to escape in Tora Bora,McCain says he won't strike bin Laden if the Pakistanis government tells him so,Barack going to hit AlQaida with or without pakistanis approval,as he knows NOBODY going to revenge the death of thousand Americans that perished in WTC after this 6 years,he's going after Bin Laden with or without Republican helps to win this presidential race.

A lot of people think experience is what matter most in the ability to govern well as the president. I personally don't think eexperience is as important as wisdom, vision, good judgment and understanding, Experience by itself alone could only be useful for writing history, and that is if the memory of the one with the experience is good enough to give an accurate account. Experience can be valuable only if it is properly employed to make the right decision or right judgment. Unfortunately, not many people can make the right decision with their experience even when their experience is relevant for the decision to be made. Another important point is that goood decisions are never made on the basis of any single experience but on the basis of multiple of experiences carefuly analyzed in the proper context with good judgment.`Again, it is important to note that experience does not have to be acquired directly. Thus, the experience of the footballer on the field of play or of the boxer in the boxing ring may not be as accurate or as valuable as that of the keen observers that are watching from outside, say, the coaches, for example. The military, strategic, diplomatic, foreign policy, defense, economic, and national security blunders that are directly related to the Iraq war will go a long way to show that experiece cannot be trusted at all in the absence of good judgment, good insight, good vision, good analytical skill, wisdom, and understanding. The wrong decision to go to war in Iraq was made by people, including McCain, a long-term senator and highly decorated and highly respected war hero' with lots of experience. Their bad judgment, and lack of vision has led to a decision that las led the US to the terrible disaster in Iraq with loss of over 4000 fine soldiers and a lot more wounded and maimed, along with a huge economic and financial cost, and still with no end in sight. Obama, equipped with better judgment from better (even though maybe less) experience was able to foresee the dissaster and warned against the war and opposed it at the political risk of losing a pending election thereby.

I think Newsweek is reaching for the absurd in these kind of support articles. Have the Democrats purchased Newsweek? Perhaps George Soros has purchased Newsweek?

I can't help but wonder if anyone at Newsweek is previewing this stuff before it hits the Net? This is like suggesting that a minor league baseball player is more prepared to coach a major league team than a veteran Major league player.

Newsweek is the joke of 'reporting' because of their overtly transparent support for Obama; but they should at least try to make some sensible biased statements and not this silliness.

Why is Newsweek so in love with Obama?

I agree Dan. Scott Olson should be fired for sheer blind idolotry on this one. Forget the fact that he has grayed the areas surrounding his point, or that he is all but salivating while he writes about Obama (whatever happened to objectionable viewpoint?) He should be banned from journalism just for making the statement that politics has become "more" partisan in the last few years.

What rock has he been hiding under?

You have two choices for president:

The first one has one of the longest lines of political experience in history. He is exceedingly popular in congress. He also volunteered to defend the our country in the US Navy.

The second one has no real political experience outside of Illinois. He is tall and lanky with big ears. He even lost a few of his first attempts at gaining political office. He is an excellent speechwriter and orator. He is a good attorney and has a successful law practice.

So which one would you choose?

This is a trick question because both were already Presidents of the United States. The first one is the 15th President of the United States, James Buchannan. He is the President who mired us in the Civil War by declaring the action illegal but doing nothing when the south decided to seceed from the Union. He is largely considered by historians as being the worst President in American history.

He was followed by the other man who became the 16th President of the United States: This man is credited with the end of slavery, the end of the Civil War, and unification of the nation. He became president at a dark time when our country was deeply divided over very polarizing issues. He had no experience in Washington prior to his Presidency. His name was Abraham Lincoln and he is widely considered by historians as one of the best Presidents in American History.

Sound familiar?

Experience of Lies and Experience of Life Two difference world.

Yes. I think you've got something here. I think that Obama IS more experienced. He was a "neighborhood organizer". That means that he used to organize things. And he did it his neighborhood. He organized stuff. Stuff in the neighborhood. That's what he did. Let me ask you something; Do you have to ace a STUPID TEST, to write for this magazine? Who are these people, writing this garbage. This rag reads like a Democrat propaganda sheet. How many subscribers do you have? Wait. Let me figure it out on my own. I'll just add up all the gas station Mens' Rooms. Mu SHOES are more "experienced" than this idiot. As we will ALL discover, at our own peril. And, as for you Obama kool aide drinking thumb suckers, GROW UP. Get out of you parents' house and DO something.

Experience it´s just a fraction of what makes a good president. Charisma, intelingence, energy, the ability to listen to your advisers and experts, the ability to manage, to learn form your mistakes, to adapt. And many more factors wich are not as easy to determine come into play. Experience alone it´s not a good reason to vote for a grumpy geezer like Mcain.