Well it was Reagan who pushed all this deregulation business full-bore, so if you’re going to laud him you also have an obligation to balance to show where he failed, and on the matter of watching over the long-term health of the economy it sure looks like he didn’t learn a bloody thing from the Depression. And you seem to be arguing about what the meaning of “experience” is, Brodie, so you’re only using the sophistic arguments that you accuse Obama of. If you ever bothered to look at what Congressmen and Senators actually do you’d probably think more highly of the ones who actually take their jobs seriously enough to go overseas to see things firsthand. I was at a talk Wednesday night by my Congressman and Charlie Wilson (yes, that Charlie Wilson) and I’m telling you I’d prefer someone with actual firsthand experience to a novice any day of the week when the s*%t hits the fan. And according to Wilson your buddy Reagan wholly endorsed what Wilson was doing in Afghanistan, warning him only to not let anyone else know about it. If you want to know which American was probably most instrumental in winning the Cold War it was Wilson since he came up with the idea of arming the Afghans with Stinger missiles so they could shoot down the Soviet helicopter gunships.

Well, now we know who will carry the Bush-Speak mantle!

Brodie, you are completely right: the President’s job is NOT about experience, it is about brains.
Say, Mr. Bush got tons of experience (including as the President), which did not prevent us from the hole that he has dug us into, and did not help get us out of that hole.
And Ms. Palin looks like having even less brains than him.

I guess there are people in Alaska with even more foreign experience than Ms. Palin because they live much closer to Russia than her, and can see it much better.
Maybe, she should invite them as foreign policy advisors to the White House?

All this Palin-bashing reminds one of how Reagan was belittled for being an actor rather than some slick talking lawyer/professional-politicain of the type that today’s stupid voters think are the only ones qualified to be President.

Why is the newsmedium not “mocking” Obama for trying to project “foreign policy experience” by virtue of giving a speech in Germany?

The American people are going to see past this lopsided treatment and coverage.

There is no such thing as “foreign policy experience.” That the media talks as if there is, simply shows the degree to which liberalism has corrupted the English language.

We could legitimately speak of “negotiating experience”, because “negotiate” is a verb - something one DOES. On the other hand “policy” is a noun, and you don’t DO nouns. And in order to gain EXPERIENCE in something, you have to be able to DO that something. You cannot gain experience in anything that does not involve DOING something. One can have KNOWLEDGE of policy - historical knowledge, or knowledge of the current policies of a particular administration. But it makes no sense to talk about “policy experience”, foreign or otherwise.

As the brilliant black economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, the only people who could acquire negotiating experience are the President and the Secretary of State. A senator or governor visiting foreign countries, or giving speeches in foreign countries, or meeting with the heads of foreign countries, does not give that person any negotiating experience whatsoever. He or she has no authority to negotiate. Politicians who take these kind of junkets at taxpayer expense, are doing so simply for show, trying to build up phoney foreign policy “experience” “credentials that will help to convince a dumbed down electorate that they are “seasoned” and thus “qualified” for more lucrative governmental positions.

I have never been so frightened in my life. I was actually leaning toward voting for McCain. However, it is clear that in this most important decision as a candidate, he made a terrible mistake. It seems it was totally political and completely unthought out. Govenor Palin is totally and utterly unprepared to be vice-president, let alone president of the United States. I will be voting for Obama.

She’s HOT!!! McCain/Palin 2008

HILARIOUS!!!!! THIS WOMAN IS AN IDIOT!!!! MAKE IT STOP I”M DYING OF LAUGHTER!!!!

she is a neophyte at playing the media game. But that’s a GOOD thing. Barack Obama is a dynamic speaker when he can prepare and read the speeches. In spontaneous reples to questions, he “hmmmms” and Ummmms alot to kill time to come up with a response and he does, but generally if you shake it down, he really doesn’t say anything. Sarah is new at this “shoveling”; she’s been working hard in her state and minding her OWN business and looking out for the people of her state which is what Obama was elected to do too but did he? Or did he make personal political “hay while the sun shines” for both he and his wife. Sarah is an American woman- she’s like the gal on the WWII poster with her sleeves rolled up saying “we can do it”. Obama hasn’t PROVEN that he can accomplish anything. Remember he has been part of the congress who did nothing to rein in Freddie and Fanny, in fact welcoming their growth as they donated millions to his coming campaign. He’s in debt big time to the big boys and guess who will pay them back? We will, God save America from socialism and Chicago corruption.

This scary Woman was just “Blessed” by a witch hunting minister (Really) that prayed over her to give her power to become Governor and to ward off any “Witchcraft”. I saw the real video…Now if this was Obama the video would be front page news. Time to take the gloves off and expose yet another CON-NEOCON.