Obama doesn't need experience. Experience in American foreign policy from the 20th century has been a disaster, from our isolationism while Europeans slaughtered each other during WWI to the Bay of Pigs, right up to the Iraq war at the dawn of the new century.

What we need is a radically new idea to get us back on track, and that is what Barak Obama genuinely has, and its golden.

People talk about overcoming partisan politics, Obama does it. People talk about winning the War on Terror, but Obama knows how.

What is it he has that is so important? Humanity. Compassion. Trust.

He has the humanity to respect the views of people who disagree with him. He has the compassion to refrain from so...

Obama doesn't need experience. Experience in American foreign policy from the 20th century has been a disaster, from our isolationism while Europeans slaughtered each other during WWI to the Bay of Pigs, right up to the Iraq war at the dawn of the new century.

What we need is a radically new idea to get us back on track, and that is what Barak Obama genuinely has, and its golden.

People talk about overcoming partisan politics, Obama does it. People talk about winning the War on Terror, but Obama knows how.

What is it he has that is so important? Humanity. Compassion. Trust.

He has the humanity to respect the views of people who disagree with him. He has the compassion to refrain from solving his problems with violence and polemics. He has the ability to trust people, to know they are fundamentally good even when he could cast them as an enemy.

To stop making enemies and start making friends is the battle of the next 10 years.

Interestingly, I think Obama is using words to change the world. It is in much the same vibe as what I love about the best parts of Clipmarks and Facebook, and Youtube. These days we are coming together in all sorts of forums. Could anyone have imagined that the hottest websites on the web would be social communities, connecting people through their passions, whether it be information, or photos, or videos?

This is all part of a single broad change going on in our society. We have rounded the bend, and after so many years pushing apart, I think we are ready to come back together.

That's the thing, we're not talking about practical experience but political experience. Obama has plenty of practical experience with all sorts of things. He understands the law, since he was a law professor. He understands communities because he's worked in community out reach projects.

What he doesn't have as much experience in is being brainwashed by the factory that is government. Most career politicians have been conditioned to operate under a certain set of presumptions, which include loyalty to the party and talking points, and the ability to shut out all critical voices and international realities that threaten your chosen ideology.

Thus, the more political experience a person has...

That's the thing, we're not talking about practical experience but political experience. Obama has plenty of practical experience with all sorts of things. He understands the law, since he was a law professor. He understands communities because he's worked in community out reach projects.

What he doesn't have as much experience in is being brainwashed by the factory that is government. Most career politicians have been conditioned to operate under a certain set of presumptions, which include loyalty to the party and talking points, and the ability to shut out all critical voices and international realities that threaten your chosen ideology.

Thus, the more political experience a person has, the deeper their myopia, and the more likely they are to plan some major disaster like the Bay of Pigs because they didn't even remotely begin to consider the world outside of their own immediate control.

Which is why we desperately need term limits! Like term limit: 1. 0% incumbency. That would change the kind of experience that we're talking about, and make a great difference in how the country is run!