Reply #85: Obama isn't the maintenance man from podunk, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review

[Hippo_Tron]

I say that not because I'm trying to boast about his resume but because it demonstrates that he's an extremely intelligent and capable individual. Intelligence, unlike experience, is an important thing to consider and that is one of the reasons that George W Bush has been an awful president.

What you seem to have a problem with is that Obama hasn't spent enough time in the Senate, in the Cabinet, or as a Governor and frankly I think that those jobs don't do jack shit to prepare someone for the presidency and history has shown that.

Roosevelt did serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy but other than that he spent most of his time in local politics and had only a brief stint as Governor much as Obama has. John Nance Garner was by all means the candidate who "knew how to pull the levers in Washington" having spent decades in Congress. But historians mostly agree that Garner would not have been able to make the changes necessary to address the depression and he would not have been able to unite the country like Roosevelt did.

Obama isn't going to be any more ready for the presidency after 6 more years in the senate than he is now. Going to committee meetings and voting simply doesn't prepare someone for that job.