Tho' Sen Obama's "lack of experience" has been cited by Sen Clinton, both are subject to this criticism by Sen McCain.
Free advice to either/both Dem candidates (worth every penny!):
"Experience" ain't all it's cracked up to be! Witness these examples:
Richard Bruce "Dick" CheneyThese are impressive resumes...Staff, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969–70Donald Henry Rumsfeld
White House Staff Assistant, 1971
Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council, 1971–73
Deputy Assistant to the president, 1974–1975
White House Chief of Staff, 1976
U.S. House of Representatives, 1979-1990
Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993Administrative Assistant to Rep. David S. Dennison, Jr. (OH-11), 1957Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
Staff assistant to Congressman Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, 1959
U.S. House of Representatives, 1963-1969
United States Office of Economic Opportunity, Assistant to the President, and a member of the President's Cabinet, 1969–1970
Counselor to the President in December 1970
Director of the Economic Stabilization Program; and member of the President's Cabinet, 1971–1972
U.S. Ambassador to the NATO, 1973
White House Chief of Staff, 1974-75
Secretary of Defense, 1975-77
Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control—Reagan Administration, 1982–1986
President Reagan's Special Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty, 1982–83
Senior Advisor to President Reagan's Panel on Strategic Systems, 1983–84
Member of the U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations—Reagan Administration, 1983–84
President Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East, 1983–1984U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1972
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs, 1977-80
State Department Director of Policy Planning, 1981-82
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1982-85
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, 1986-89
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 1989-93
BUT! - These are the guys that got us into Iraq!
Cheney:Experience isn't all it's cracked up to be. Judgment matters, character matters."...we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."Rumsfeld:"Freedom's untidy..."Wolfowitz:"Iraq has no history of ethnic strife"
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