Can someone please explain the differences between Obama and McCain?

[Spuradicator]

What is scary about Obama is his lack of experience for me.

[AZLouis]

What is scary about Obama is his lack of experience for me.

Actually, I think my experience is my greatest strength. I don't have some of the traditional experience of folks in Washington, although I would put my record here in Washington next to my compe ors'. But I think my work as a community organizer, as a civil rights attorney, as somebody who taught cons utional law for 10 years, and as a state legislator provides me with insights into solving problems at the federal level and at the local level and at the neighborhood level that I think is what's needed right now."

Articles that discuss Obama's experience factor.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...litics_3720763

http://aunk.newsvine.com/_news/2008/...e-than-clinton
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[DarkReign]

I guess lincoln, FDR, Jackson, Polk, even Washington all were tyrants with the way they handled POW's.

No, I dont. Not when you take into account the era they lived/reigned in and the cir stances of their wars and vice versa of our current era and cir stances of war.

Can we not agree (at least I hope we can) that the value of human life has grown immensely in the past century? I know it isnt like that in all the world (one example, when Saudis build a new pipeline, there is a line item to account for the human deaths associated with said project...it isnt a small number, China, etc) but damnit if it isnt in the West, especially America.

We are better because we have the will and resources to be better. Better than our enemies, better than our compe ion, better in every facet of human life. We have that potential, even in the midst of war (if thats what you want to call the War on Dru...I mean, War on Terror).

Jackson/Washington were slave owners. Commonplace back then. Not so much anymore. The battlefields of then were bloodbaths. One step above swords+shields. Honorable, sure. Deadly for a soldier doesnt begin explain the nature of being a commander then.

"Ah, yes, mere infantry - poor beggars..."
-Plautus

More to the point, I never accused Bush/Cheney/the Army/America of being "tyrants with the way they handled POW's". I simply say, if we are to portray ourselves as better and above then we should be such things we purport.

[boutons_]

"What is scary about Obama is his lack of experience for me."

HUSSEIN! has succeeded better and longer in many more areas than dubya has or ever will. Is dubya scary for you?

[T Park]

Is "dubya" running for president in 08?

[JoeChalupa]

Is "dubya" running for president in 08?

Yes, but under the name of "John McCain".