Why is a total lack of experience in Washington a good thing? (Congress, president)
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Why is it that people who support Palin think having experience in Washington is such a horrible thing?
Seriously. Think about it. Would you want someone performing heart surgery on you who had a lack of experience in a hosptial? Would you want someone working on the brakes of your car that had a lack of experience in auto mechanics?
Point being that regardless of who gets elected, they're not going to be king. They're going to have to deal with congress, the judiciary, executive agencies and departments, media, lobbyists, diplomats, you name it, who HAVE been there awhile.
It's an incredibly complex environment. How on earth you could ever expect someone with no experience to go into that environment and not get chewed up in the process?
There is a "good" lack of experience and there is a "bad" lack of experience. Like George Bush, Palin has the bad lack of experience. She is clueless about whats going on and the only reason she didn't fall apart in the debate was because she crammed all the info she had been taught by the Bush administration. Obama has the good lack of experience. Hes intelligent, has good judgment, he knows what he is talking about and he he familiar with the national economy and foreign affairs unlike Sarah Palin.
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I don't understand it either.
In the workplace, would you like a supervisor who was brought in from a completely different industry, who may have supervised 3 or 4 people to be suddenly brought in to run your company of say, 4,000 employees? I think most people would feel very wary about this situation and wonder about the future of the company.
But yet people seem to think its a great idea to bring someone in to lead the country who has never worked in DC and has never worked with the US Congress.
You know, I don't want to be president. I don't want someone like me as president. I want someone who has spent time learning the constitution, world affairs, congress, and how the different gov't agencies work. Someone who is smarter than me, and someone who understands the job and all the details of our gov't. I would bet that Palin couldn't even name the Chairman of my former agency.
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