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Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 09:54 AM by Aviation Pro
...I am going to assume that Senator Obama is going to win the nomination. I am also going to assume that he will survive the inevitable right-wing smear machine and narrowly, very narrowly, defeat Senator McCain in November.
Then What? (Capitalized for emphasis).
President Obama, who has never governed anything during his political career and to the best of my knowledge has not sponsored a single piece of major legislation during his short tenure in the U.S. Senate, will be faced with the most incredible OJT that one could think of - the leader of the free world and responsible for a bureaucracy that numbers in the millions
Didn't we just go through this? Did we learn nothing from the disaster we have endured for eight, long, painful years?
The smartest thing Senator Obama can do when he selects his running mate is find a governor or ex-governor to run on his ticket (and not just any governor or ex-governor, one who has spent some time in DC). If he doesn't, all this 'change' and 'hope' will end up being a stale fart in a small closet.
'Hope' and 'change' can win elections (just like wantin' to have a beer with some guy you don't know - oh, how we found out how well that turned out), but it takes experience, nuance and saavy to govern.
Think hard.
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