Experience Matters

Experience maters. The same press that grilled Dan Quayle in the 80's is not using the same tactics on Billary or B Hussein Obama. Look at the numbers:

Dan Quayle was elected to the the House in 1980 (at age 29) where he served 4 years before beating a Democratic incumbant for the Junior Senate seat in 1984. Then in 1988, Bush I selected him as Vice-president. So by my count, VP Quayle had 12 years of actual government experience before running for President in 2000.

No let's look at Billary. She graudated from Yale at age 25. Billary went on to work at the Rose Law Firm where she learned how to make money in shady real estate deals and turn $1000 in cattle contracts into hundreds of thousands. Then it was on to the White House where she served in the official capacity of "First Lady." In 2000, Billary conveniently re-located to New York in time to win her first elected post, Senator of New York. She was re-elected in 2006. By my math, she atually only has 8 years of experience. However, I am not sure you can count the last two as she has barely found her chair in the Senate Chamber in order to cast a vote. So by my math she has 6+2-2=6 years of experience. She keeps talking about her 35 years of experience, but at age 60 does that imply the everything she has done since age 25 qualifies as experience?

How about B Hussein Obama? He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 where he served until winning a seat in the US Senate in 2004. Of course he has 5 years of work experiece at a law firm specializing in Civil Rights work. So the math again shows that B Hussein has served in a Federal office for 3 years. Again though, the last two years he has been campaigning and rarely showed up in DC for votes. I am not even sure he got unpacked. So the math would be 3-2=1. One year of actual work at the Federal level.

They both talk about change, but how do they know what needs to be changed? Neither one of them seem to spend any time in DC in order to figure out what needs changed. They certainly do not have the experience, if that is important (as the press pointed out for us in the 80's with Dan Quayle).

I think one could argue that it is experienced politicians that are the ones that created many of the problems we have today with government. So maybe experience doesn't matter. Dan, I think your time has come.