July 16, 2008
Obama's (ahem) qualifications
Gregory McNeal points out that Obama's paltry experience doing anything other than campaigning underscores how woefully unprepared he is to become the leader of the most powerful nation in the world.
As we made clear in The Tank yesterday, when Americans vote this November, Obama will have just 3 years and 10 months of experience as a U.S. senator. As Jim Geraghty has now higlighted over in The Campaign Spot, Obama will have spent "almost half of the past decade campaigning for higher office." With experience like that, it is no wonder that he can't keep his policy positions straight; he's constantly angling and posturing for his next political move.
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The theme that is emerging here is an Obama who is quite an effective politician, but whose calculating political maneuvering is impacting his credibility. His inconsistencies are also calling into question his decision-making. What we are beginning to see is someone who lacks sufficient time in any position and who is always looking to the next political accomplishment (remember that 2 years 12 days in the Senate). As a consequence of that political ambition, he lacks the core judgment to make principled non-political decisions and he lacks the humility to know when he should accept the advice of those with more experience. Obama can give great motivating speeches, but when the shroud of generalties and bombast is stripped away, his inexperienced core is revealed.
McNeal goes on to detail Obama's dizzying twists and turns, zig-zags and reversals, as he tries to square the circle and reassure voters that he has any idea that he knows what he's talking about.
Read it and tell me you're prepared to cast a ballot for the Chance the Gardener of the Presidential Campaign.
Posted by Mike Lief at July 16, 2008 09:51 PM
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