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To a Republican friend who was concerned about Obama's experience

By Harley - Sep 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 am EDT

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This will be my one and only appeal... after which, I will never mention politics unsolicited again.

If experience is the issue that moves you, consider this...

If you look at the intelligence, vastness, efficiency and over all organizational quality of Obama's campaign in comparison not just to McCain, (who has led a unusually disorganized campaign thus far)... but also in comparison to political light weights, like the Clintons... I think it is an undeniable testament to his ability to lead. His organization is not "rhetorically good" or "sounds good" it is good. It's quite possibly the best run campaign in my lifetime... well... Reagan did a pretty good job... but I think you get the idea.

In addition, regardless of your general political views (mine not being terribly liberal to be perfectly honest) I feel that the last 8 years have been not only an embarrassment to our nation, but I believe, permanently scarring on almost every level. Russia is slipping back into the darkness, our international image is the worst it's been in my lifetime, Enemy states, for the first time have nuclear weapons (at lest N. Korea soon Iran) the war in Iraq has fueled terrorism instead of quelling it, and I don't need to tell you how our economy is doing under the guidance of the current administration.

All of this was not the result of just the failed polices of one man... G.W. I think it’s the Republican Party that has lost its way... and after such abysmal leadership they should not be given the reward of another presidency under any circumstances. As someone who has voted republican in the past, I can tell you that I would vote for my dog over ANY republican candidate in this election, because I think that the only way to make the party realize that it is accountable for it's mistakes and if we want a better republican party, its' not going to come from the people who are rallying to Sarah Palin... It is going to come from a chasten Republican Party that has to go back to it's roots and remember what it represents.

As for Obama, I think he has 2 things going for him that make him an exceptional candidate. One is that he represents, symbolically, to us and to the rest of the world, what is best about America. The idea that in America we are not bigoted and small... that we make horrible mistakes but correct them... we had a segregated country where blacks were relegated to the backs of busses, and less then 50 years later we could have a black president lead our nation. Only in this country is that possible, and that alone will go a long way to repairing our image in the world and reaffirm to our nation, that anything is possible.

The second thing is that he is young and good-looking. You think I am kidding, but I am dead serious. Think back to Kennedy. Why is he considered to be such a "great" president? In a lot of ways he wasn't... But he understood his generation and was able to push the nation forward during challenging times. An old president would have never desegregated the south, or gotten a man to the moon... done the things we needed to do, to move our nation into the modern world. Kennedy was young in a well-educated and worldly way, similar to Obama, not young in the Sarah Palin, well spoken but, arrogant, ill informed and overconfident, country, folksy kind of way.
And the good looking thing... think about it... What put the first real nail in the coffin of Communism? I don't think it was JFK's great policies. Honestly, I think it had more to with, the image he represented when he would travel around the world and everyone, in every gray, Communist country, saw what America's president looked like with his beautiful young wife. In comparison to short, fat, grim, Khrushchev and his babushka wife, it was clear that the American way was the way to go. You didn't need to understand Kennedy's policy's or even speak his language... he looked like everything you wanted the leader of the free world to look like... and people who were taught to hate America, secretly loved America, because they idolized him, they wanted to go t the place where people look like JFK and Jackie O.
Today have a new and equally dangerous ideological threat, the threat of terrorism... and a young, good looking, black American president, is the face that our nation needs to project, in order to win hearts and minds and keep us safe.

To end this novella I seem to have written, I will go back on your original issue, the risk of Obama's perceived inexperience. In comparison to the risk of 4 or 8 more years of the same policies that have gotten us into this mess, or 4 to 8 years of the unimaginable Palin (but statistically frighteningly likely) presidency, Obama is the clear choice for me.

That's it... I will never mention any of this again.

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