BF2S Forums SO.... You need to be experienced to be prez?

Both of them were governors for a lot longer than 2 years.

SealXo wrote:

obamas been in senate 100 some days. so they have no right to speak.

Obama's been in the senate for like 3 years. You don't have to believe all the propaganda. The 100 days things was at the point he started his exploratory committee see if he should run.

chittydog wrote:

Both of them were governors for a lot longer than 2 years.

Yes they were. I guess my vent may be directed towards the damn biased media 

Oh well, I'm pissing on both parties in '08. I want my country back.

Last edited by OxenBreeder (2008-09-12 23:13:01)

Experience is overrated.  I think the office is so unique that there is no benchmark or standard.

I'm gunna say that the #1 requirement for a person to be president, is the desire to be president.  When I'm 35, I'll be eligible to be president.  I have no desire now, and I doubt I'll have the desire then, to be the President.  It takes a special person, republican or democrat, to want to run for that office.  They're willingly giving up their own lives to operatives, strategists, the media, the public, and that's just for the primary.  Obama, Biden and McCain all have the desire to be president.  they all made the choice, however many months ago, to put themselves under the microscope for vivisection.  They've all been torn apart and put back together many times and they accept and embrace it, because that's the butcher's bill. 

Mrs. Palin was quietly governing her little state up until three weeks ago.  She had no desire to be the president, she had not been put under the microscope and ripped apart.  She obviously didn't want that, or she would have tossed her hat into the ring a year ago.  She is a political opportunist who couldn't pass up a shot at the big time.  Except she doesn't want to run the guantlet, she wants the job without all the unpleasantness that comes with seeking the job.  So, now the media, according to McCain, is against him and his new best friend, simply because they're having to do years worth of research  and reporting in the span of weeks.

The primary job of the Vice President is to be in the backround. Ready at any moment to enable the seemless transition of power.  Mrs. Palin is not qualified to be president because up until 4 weeks ago, she didn't want to be President.

I thought the Vice President's job basically ended on polling day, so experience does matter too much in that regard.

damn thats too far

Some of our worst presidents were knee deep in experience.. That's a fact.

I think experience really can be a bad thing, if experience is the same thing as having been senator or governor for some years. If you've already been in high politics for a while, chances are that you call a lot of lobbyists you friends, because otherwise you wouldn't be in high politics. It's only logical that these "friends" won't be forgotten after the election, because becoming president is even more expensive than becoming senator.

So I think having no experience can be a good thing, but only if your character is strong enough to resist the influences of the "experienced".
When experience in a special matter is needed, there is a reason why there are different departments with (hopefully) persons, who know what they do.

When you then exclude this experience, what counts is the personal opinions of the candidates, their real political program.

Start voting for programs, not for faces.

Dilbert_X wrote:

The old experience debate.
If you're an ignorant  fuckwit who makes dumb mistakes its doesn't matter how much experience you have, you're still an ignorant fuckwit who makes dumb mistakes.

Unfortunately ignorant fuckwits never seem to get this, they think their experience still counts for something and the fact they make mistake after mistake is unimportant.

^  He stole my thought and expressed it using the word fuckwit.  + 1

MGS3_GrayFox wrote:

usmarine wrote:

you guys can stop arguing about this.  the dems are going to lose like the losers they are as usual.  just expect sour grapes for the next 54 days from the forum lefties.

Expect hell on the US for the next 1513 days.

so dont worry about it.  drink your rum and pick your bananas.  dont worry your pretty little head.

usmarine wrote:

MGS3_GrayFox wrote:

usmarine wrote:

you guys can stop arguing about this.  the dems are going to lose like the losers they are as usual.  just expect sour grapes for the next 54 days from the forum lefties.

Expect hell on the US for the next 1513 days.

so dont worry about it.  drink your rum and pick your bananas.  dont worry your pretty little head.

LOL

Sucks to not have rum, doesn't it?

Did Dwight D. Eisenhower have any experience?