Wednesday, March 5, 2008

"Experience" ain't all it's cracked up to be

Note: I will express no preference between Sen Obama & Sen Clinton.
Tho' Sen Obama's "lack of experience" has been cited by Sen Clinton, both are subject to this criticism by Sen McCain.

Free advice to either/both Dem candidates (worth every penny!):
"Experience" ain't all it's cracked up to be! Witness these examples:
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney
Staff, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969–70
White House Staff Assistant, 1971
Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1971–73
Deputy Assistant to the president, 1974–1975
White House Chief of Staff, 1976
U.S. House of Representatives, 1979-1990
Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993
Donald Henry Rumsfeld
Administrative Assistant to Rep. David S. Dennison, Jr. (OH-11), 1957
Staff assistant to Congressman Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, 1959
U.S. House of Representatives, 1963-1969
United States Office of Economic Opportunity, Assistant to the President, and a member of the President's Cabinet, 1969–1970
Counselor to the President in December 1970
Director of the Economic Stabilization Program; and member of the President's Cabinet, 1971–1972
U.S. Ambassador to the NATO, 1973
White House Chief of Staff, 1974-75
Secretary of Defense, 1975-77
Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control—Reagan Administration, 1982–1986
President Reagan's Special Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty, 1982–83
Senior Advisor to President Reagan's Panel on Strategic Systems, 1983–84
Member of the U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations—Reagan Administration, 1983–84
President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East, 1983–1984
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1972
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs, 1977-80
State Department Director of Policy Planning, 1981-82
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1982-85
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, 1986-89
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 1989-93
These are impressive resumes...

BUT! - These are the guys that got us into Iraq!
Cheney:
"...we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."
Rumsfeld:
"Freedom's untidy..."
Wolfowitz:
"Iraq has no history of ethnic strife"
Experience isn't all it's cracked up to be. Judgment matters, character matters.

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