What is Experience?
There seems to be a debate brewing about the experience of Barack Obama. His fellow contenders (basically only Clinton, who loves to attack) say that he does not have the experience to be president.
What qualifies as experience to be president?
Our history says the answer is: over 40 years old, white male, former Governor.
Most people would agree with me that the 2008 election is going to be different. There is a very good chance that a woman or a non-white man will be president. The American people are in need of leadership; we are in need of change.
Article II, section 1 of our Constitution states the only real qualifications to be president: “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
The Founders made these qualifications very vague for a reason. They want the voters to decide what qualifies someone to be our president.
Now the question is do we want our next president, the person who will bring change and raise America’s stature in the world again, to be a person with fresh ideas, or do we want a “Washington Insider?”
What is the definition of insanity again?
August 20th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Doing the same thing over and over trying to get a different result. Wait was that rhetorical?