Reply #40: I disagree. Obama wouldn't have gotten this far...

[ginchinchili]

if "racial tensions are still as present today as ever." Though I don't like some of the tactics the Obama campaign is using, my primary complaint with him is his lack of experience. Now, I know he's been going around making the argument that experience is actually bad, i.e., the Bush administration, but no one should accept that argument, and it's a dangerous argument to disseminate, especially on our impressionable country, and particularly Obama's youthful audiences. Ironically, I see Bush as an example of electing someone to office who doesn't have adequate experience. You put someone in the White House who doesn't have qualifying experience and then that Commander in Chief surrounds himself or herself with more experienced people and you get the Bush administration. How slow Americans are in learning. How quickly we forget.

Had Obama just focused on proving himself to be a good senator, as he promised the people of Illinois, until 2012 or 2016, he'd probably be elected to the presidency. If he doesn't make it this time I don't think it will be due to race, but his lack of experience. You are making a mistake if you believe that people who don't support Obama don't because he's black. That's certainly not why I don't support him. If, for example, he had Colin Powell's experience, or if it was Colin Powell himself minus his Republican Party affiliation and minus his stint with the Bush administration, he'd be my guy.