Quote from hapaboy:
Not at all. Nice dodge attempt. I'm asking you what Obama did as a State Senator that qualifies him for the Presidency. You're the one that brought it up.
Why would it matter? According to you, except for his experience he has no experience, and if you're not impressed by the experience it doesn't count. So clearly anything he did in the Senate wouldn't count.
But okay, we'll just move on, here's some informaton about his experience in the state Senate:
"Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws.[29] He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare.[30] In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures,[31] and in 2003, Obama sponsored and led unanimous, bipartisan passage of legislation to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they detained and legislation making Illinois the first state to mandate videotaping of homicide interrogations.[30][32]
In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority.[36] During his 2004 general election campaign for U.S. Senate, police representatives credited Obama for his active engagement with police organizations in enacting death penalty reforms.[37] Obama resigned from the Illinois Senate in November 2004 following his election to the US Senate.[38]
Well, not sure if you knew this, but the reason he was a POW is because he was a Naval aviator. He has military experience. Leadership experience. Please refresh my memory, but what kind of military experience does Obama have? Come to think of it, what kind of LEADERSHIP experience does Obama have? I don't think being editor of a school paper qualifies, do you?
Yes, I agree, leading a few dozen pilots is leadership experience. So that's one thing -- except that's government work and I asked what experience outside the government McCain has had.
But I absolutely agree that McCain has some experience. Unlike you I don't feel the need to pretend that he has no experience.
Amazing, isn't it, how upon being named the VP candidate, Biden has done a 180 and thinks BO isn't only ready now, but there's noone better?!?
Well for that answer you'll have to ask Biden. Unlike you I'm less concerned about the interpersonal conflicts and more concerned about policy differences.
It would appear McCain has devoted his adult life to government work. In case you haven't noticed, the President heads the Executive Branch of the GOVERNMENT. So it's kind of important, don't you think? And I'm assuming you're counting those six years of torture and hell to be "government work," too. But what is that compared to two years of Congressional experience that Obama has, right?
Certainly McCain has more experience in the Senate than Obama. Whereas Obama has more experience both in and outside of government than McCain.
