Quote from trendlover:
I understand you are saying people vote for issues that Obama claim he will change if he is president. Then you say he has no experience with those issues, so why did people vote for him without looking at experience.
Landis is saying that now Obama is elected, he tries to pick the best people to help him with the issues he campaign on.
So Obama built a trust with people that his character is good, and McCain (through experience) has prove to some voters that they do not want him as their president.
So it is like this for example. You have 2 cookies. One you have tasted before, and you are not happy with the taste. And one you have never tasted, but you look at the ingredients in the cookie, and it looks like it will taste good. So you choose the cookie you never tasted before, not just becasue you hate the taste of the other cookie, but because the ingredients look good.
Your anology is spot on. Unfortunately it is spot on for my argument and not yours.
You get the ingredients to make this new cookie. You or no one else has ever tasted the cookie ever in their lives. You make the cookie. You eat the cookie. You either love, like or just think that it is an average cookie. The crazy thing about this is that before you ever tasted the cookie you never really new if the cookie was going to taste great or horrible.
Now lets invite a scenario in which the end result of the cookie has much more significance and importance than whether your taste buds appreciate the taste or not. Lets say you are a world class chef. You are in the biggest cookie making competition in the world and the grand prize is 100k. If you were this chef would you try and make a cookie you have never made before or would you make the cookie that you have made countless times that has received countless amounts of appreciation by people?
Now we have gone from the degree of importance of taste buds to winning a cookie competition to becoming the leader of a large majority of the world. If you were a voter would you vote for someone who has no experience with any of the major issues or would you vote for the candidate that has proven themseleves countless times who has received countless amounts of appreciation by people?
The bottom line is that Obama is a really big risk. The reason he is such a big risk is because he has no past results when it comes to the most important issues he claims he can change. It's like putting a person who has never driven in a race in the Nascar 500. The guy might have a huge ambition to race in the Nascar 500 but if your a part of that racing team (country) do you really think that sounds like a good idea?