I was watching the players practice the other day - NH debate - and there seemed to be a lot of talk on the Dem side about experience. With all due respect to all of the players - there is only one person who is both eligible and qualified to be President: George H W Bush.
Everyone else, regardless of how close they were to the Oval Office, is an observer. My Dad is a chemist - he spent 30 years as a researcher for a major consumer products company. He knows more chemistry the anyone I've ever met (including profs in college). Me, I'm an engineer who needed to retake freshman chemistry to avoid getting a D. Proximity isn't experience!
Bill Richardson said that he was the only candidate who actually balanced a budget. The current New Mexico annual state budget is about $4.7 Billion. The current US annual budget for FY2008 is about $2.8 Trillion. Using Richardson's argument, since I balance my checkbook, I'm qualified to be CFO of General Electric. Proximity isn't experience!
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And where has experience gotten us anyway? Enough experience! It's time to grab the garbage bin of American government turn it upside-down and shake the crap out of it.
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