How sure are we about the importance of experience when it comes to the Presidency?

Question

Here is an interesting question......Did America benefit from George W. Bush's experience from his first term as president? Did the lessons that Bush learned help America? Are we as a country better off now than we were in 2004??? NO WE ARE NOT!!! So if four years in the White House as President (experience), doesn't make you ready to take it up a notch in the remaining four, why then do republicans seem to think that experience is soooo important? Why do they keep harping on experience when they have a man in office right now who's "experience" has led to nothing but the decay of America's Economy our the military. Is that really supposed to make the case for McCain, who only offers more of the same?

And just for the record.....the last Presidential Nominee attacked for his experience (or lack there of) before he was eventually elected..........Bill Clinton...........I think things worked out pretty well didn't it??????

Answer 1

Experience with the "Exxon lobbyist handshake of pocket filling" isn't good at all, for America.

Answer 2

First off, one of our greatest presidents,

Abraham Lincoln only had one year in, when he was elected president.  I'd say he did pretty well.

President Kennedy didn't have very much more, neither did Reagan, considering his life long profession as an actor.  We all know both Biden and Bill Clinton said on national TV during the debates "Obama is not ready to be President!"  

Why the sudden change?  Biden is his running mate, and the Clinton's have thrown their full support to Obama?

The answer is, you can not give too much weight to anything lawyers turned politicians, say on the stump.

Even in their present positions they may still think Obama is not ready, but the people think he is, and in the end that is all that counts!  The party is forced by the will of the people to come together

in a partisan effort to win the election.

Weather Obama is ready or not, becomes a mute question.  Only time will tell if he is elected.  As with any president, we will end up clapping our hands, or biting our elbows!

One thing is for certain, we need a revolution in America!  Maybe too much experience, and too many ties to the status quo, are what we really don't need?

Is any senator or governor really ready to be president?  I believe no matter who sits behind that dest in the oval office for the first time, it's on the job training, and it's who that person has sitting around him, and how he uses his skil to get things done, through them, and with them, that matters in the end.

Frankly, I don't give a d**n how much experience he has, as long as he does what he says, and gets the job done!

The proof is ultimately in the pudding.

Answer 3

You are correct about the experience thing. But I will pose another question if you don't mind.

Do you really want a president who has no respect for the country he wants to lead. He refused to wear a lapel pin of the American flag! (Silly, I grant you) But he will be the leader of that country, Honor the men and women that have fought and died for this country! He also refused to put his hand over his heart when the pledge of allegiance was spoken.(again silly, but one wonders) What does he really think of America if he won't do the simple and silly things. I'm no McCain lover, But Obama makes me nervous. How hard is it to sell out a country you have no real respect for?

Answer 4

You have an interesting perspective, all wrong of course.  We do want a person with experience such as George Bush, who was governor of the largest state in the nation.  George learned that he did not have to listen to people with special interest, and did his best to convince the majority to his way of thinking, which he did very well, as the democrats voted to go to war with Iraq.

Oboma's only experience that I can tell is dealing with a special interest crook who he was able to deal with in getting his mansion.  Oboma did draw on his experience from Chicago, one of the most corrupt cities in the country, to get his mansion.  I don't think that is the kind of experience we need as president.

As far a Bill Clinton, he claims to have had an excellent economy while he was President and low employment, he did and he can thank Ronald Regan for leaving it to him, he had nothing to do with it, and in fact what Clinton left Bush was what Bush had to fix and he did quite well until we got the Democratic Congress the last two years which is when it went to ****, energy prices up, stock-market down, unemployment up.

I think you should rethink what you are trying to say.

Answer 5

Unfortunately youre logic is based on the falacy of believing that 'since one person did it, the rest will as well'.

Just because one man jumps off a cliff doesnt mean others will follow.

Answer 6

Clinton's "experience" was good for some and bad for most.

Answer 7

we don't know

Answer 8

An excellent observation.  The bush administration was/is loaded with

experience, bush was a governor,cheney,worked for several presidential administration, powell, his credentials speak for themselves and rice is a highly educated stanford grad.  All of that and they still didn't get one prediction correct in the lead up to the iraq war. So much for experience.

It would seem to me that you can't teach wisdom or another way is to say that you can't fix dumb.

Answer 9

Experience is NOT defined as how long you have worked in a certain area.  If you did your job poorly for 30 years, you're obviously not as experienced as someone who was in the same job for 5 years and performed wonderfully.  I'll go with the competent person everytime.  You can measure competence by what they say and do, and what they have accomplished.

Answer 10

Do you think that Bush's experience counts more ?

Answer 11

Well I do not believe there is any such thing as experience to be President and it generally does not play into my decisions. I am an issue based voter. I look at specific issues of importance to me and then examine platforms and records to determine who represents the best candidate in my opinion. Conviction, integrity and honesty are more important to me in the overall equation than experience or lack thereof. People act like the Presidency is an island with one man on it. It is instead a continent with a huge cast of supporting characters.

So I hope than answers your question. As for the rest, it is just a rant and really served no purpose other than to show your own personal bias.