Yes, Barack Obama is inexperienced.

Here's the thing.

I am forced to agree completely with anyone who says that John McCain has more experience in government than Barack Obama. Eh, "forced" is the wrong word; there's no shame in being younger than one's opponent, you know?

I think Barack Obama knows far more about actually LIVING in the country he wants to govern than John McCain does. McCain has had power and prestige going for him pretty much since birth (except for the 5 1/2 years he yeah yeah I know, who doesn't?), and it feels to me as though Obama has grown up in the same country I have. I'll cop to a wholly emotional argument. As far as politics go, I think emotion holds at least as much force as logic.

I agree that Barack Obama is inexperienced with foreign policy. The thing is, I think Biden brings enormous foreign policy experience to the ticket. I also think that Obama is bright enough to bring in people who will give him good intelligence. I think that Palin brings absolutely NOTHING to McCain's ticket. The people who have said that she has executive experience, etc... well, for one thing, I've read about how she USED her position.* For another, while she has held positions of power, her apparent complete lack of intellectual curiosity is unacceptable. It's not that she isn't very knowledgeable; it's that she doesn't CARE that she's not knowledgeable. She only seems interested in the things people tell her she's supposed to be interested in. This is no big deal if you're a Project Manager in Generic Corporation, but I think it's downright dangerous in the Vice President of the COUNTRY.

Mother Fuck. I started this four hours ago and then had to do a bunch of TOTALLY UNIMPORTANT (read: real world) things and now I've lost both my train of thought AND my eloquence. So assuming anyone still reads this thing, maybe I'll grace you with more later.


*And no, I don't believe everything I read on liberal blogs, because the Right has no monopoly on stupidity.