This is For “”Eric K. Or for anyone that does not know why Obama is qualified.

Really nobody deserves the presidency. The Presidency of the United States is not a privilege. It is a duty, a responsibility to over 300 million people and a historical legacy.

Let’s also get over this idea of experience or qualification. The only people who have the “experience” to be president are the people who have already been president—and sometimes, not even them. I think we can all safely say that after 8 years in office, George W. Bush is still no more qualified to be president than the guy who cleans the White House bathrooms. In fact, he’s probably less qualified than the guy who cleans the White House bathrooms.

Truth be told, Obama is young and many say, inexperienced in Executive Office. But he is someone who hasn’t yet sold their soul just to keep their congressional seat. He understands that the President answers to the people.

Yet you still argue, what experience or qualification does Obama have? Well, let’s start at the beginning. He’s experienced what millions of other Americans have experienced: growing up with a single, working mother, the child of an interracial relationship, never really knowing his father. Put himself through college, graduating from Columbia University, then working as a community organizer for three years with a church-based organization originally comprised of eight Catholic parishes in the south side of Chicago, where he helped set up a job training program, a college prep tutoring program and a tenants rights organization. He went on to Harvard Law school, where he was selected as an editor, and then later the president of, the Harvard Law Review. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years and also joined a law firm that specialized in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development.

In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois Senate where he served until 2004, following his election to the US Senate. He has served as a United States Senator for the past three years. One of his sponsored legislative acts included the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act, which established http://www.USApending.gov, a web search engine on government spending. He also sponsored the “Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security and Democracy Promotion Act,” signed into law by President Bush in December, 2006. He sponsored the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, signed into law in September 2007. He also sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act adding safeguards for personality disorder military discharges.

He has sat on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans’ Affairs, as well as Health, Labor and Pensions, Education and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. He is the chairman of the subcommittee on European Affairs.

That’s quite a bit of experience, I’d say. In fact, isn’t that the epitome of the American Dream? A man who works his way up from the bottom, his hard work gives way to success, his success allows him to give back to the community?

But what about his political positions?

Well, he was an opponent of the Iraq War, and spoke out against it on numerous occasions. He would like to eliminate all nuclear weapons, eventually. He believes in direct presidential diplomacy with foreign enemies but is not against using force when necessary. He has called for action against the genocide in Darfur, has divested his holdings of Sudan-related stock and urges divestment from companies doing business in Iran. He opposes privatized Social Security. He supports universal healthcare. He proposes to reward teachers on a merit-based pay system. He would eliminate taxes for seniors with incomes of less than $50k a year, close corporate tax loopholes, and proposed a cap and trade auction system to restrict carbon emissions. He prefers transparency in government. He wants to actively promote advancements in science and technology. He is pro-choice.

Of course, you didn’t need me to write all this. You could have looked it up on Wikipedia or gone to BarackObama.com and found it out.

PLEASE TELL ME WHAT MAKES MCCAIN OR PALIN QUALIFIED.