ASSH0LE said:
Do you just pop this shit off the top of your head?
The man spent three years in a civil rights law practice, you know, fighting for regular people's rights. He then was a Senator in Illinois (that's not quite Rhode Island, ya know...) for seven years. He's since spent three years in the U.S. Senate. Ten years in politics, that's six more than Shrub, two more than Reagan had before becoming President (eight years as Gov of Cali).
Seven years in the state senate? jesus christ, I'm surprised he's not listing Model UN in his credentials.
And Bush is the standard for how much experience you should have before entering the office? Should be another 8 wonderful years.
Shit, there's loads of local pols I can think of that'd kill for a State Senator job.
Hell, Harry Reid's son is a County Commissioner, though in this state (and particularly this County) that have an edge over the State Legislature, but not over the State Senate.
He did well enough in State Senate that he got to skip the midstep to House of Reps (though he did once try and fail to receive the nomination for same).
If you're going to build experience in state politics, Illinois is a challenging place to do it. Go in as a more-or-less urban, more-or-less black guy into Illinois state politics, and that's a damned tricky row to hoe. Obama did quite well for himself there, making a name for himself as someone who could make legislative compromises happen, someone who could get more of what he wanted by getting other people things they wanted.
And my point in mentioning Shrub was that he (and no doubt Raygun) are the same pols a lot of the people bitching about "lack of experience" had themselves voted for in years past.
FearTheReaper
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JUL 11, 2007 11:59 PM