Presidential Candidates Experience Claims Are Disingenuous

Dr. Sherman N. Miller

3/5/2008

Since none of the remaining Presidential candidates have been tested in a national emergence, the only thing we can do is to conjecture who might be the best person to answer the telephone at 3:00 a.m. in the morning. Hence, there is media manipulation underway to spin one person over the others. My guess is anyone of these candidates will give his or her best judgment in the midst of a national crisis which may be ample to meet the challenge before her or him. Therefore, it is disingenuous to be attempting to pollute the national psyche with fear mongering tactical debates over the perceived capability of unproven people in hopes of encouraging the nation to select a president based on some doomsday scenario paranoia.

The real issues in the 2008 Presidential election center on who can provide the leadership that will drive the energy speculators out of business and make gasoline and home heating energy sources once again affordable. Who can solve the mortgage crisis? Who will make medical care affordable without bankrupting the nation? Who will send the illegal aliens back home and offer jobs and hope to the American people? Who will renegotiate our trade agreements, so they are no longer licenses to export American jobs overseas and to import foreign unemployment?

Let us stop this silly debate over who has the most experience to be President. I have not heard any experience that Senator John Mc Cain, Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have revealed that makes them ideal for being President. I am partial to former governors because they have run a state and guided their ideas through general assemblies. Since none of the Presidential candidates have any experience actually doing anything execpt being a representative, then let us stop this ridiculous debate over their experience. What is troublesome here is the national news media is a coconspirator in this experience tomfoolery debate by not pointing out that no one has any significant leadership experience.

Let us be honest with the American people by pointing out that no matter which one of the current Presidential candidates win there will be a significant on the job learning curve that must take place. Hence, I discount all of these experience claims and my focus is on their ideas to keep the present economic crisis from morphing from the present economic recession to a global economic depression. The real need in this 2008 election year is who will prevent the 21th Century Great Depression. How many more people must lose their homes and jobs before the Presidential candidates even acknowledge we are in an economic recession by ballyhooing their vision to tackle the current high price oil bondage tax?