Why Does the MSM keeping saying Obama has so little experience when,

[illinoisprogressive]

he has 8 years in the State Senate plus 2 in the US senate. That makes 10. Hillary and Edwards have 6.
This would be more experience in government. Plus all the legislation he has done in the state and the US senates is never talked about either.
I just wish they would stop with myths and be more accurate.

[Bucky]

1. Rejigger your paradigm, please. (post updated)

By election day '08 Obama will have four years experience in the US Senate. On election day '00 Bush had six years experience as governor of Texas. Any Republican making an arugment that Obama lacks experience has some hypocritial ass to cover. But if elective office is our criterion, Bush's CV is scads better than another Republican president's resume upon taking office in a time of crisis.

Would you rank as qualified a candidate whose sole governmental experience is one term in the House of Representative (and that term ended 12 years prior to election day), plus one failed run for the US Senate, plus a few months as a postal carrier in small town? Sounds pretty meager in the ol' presidential qualifications department, huh? Add to that the fact that he's gangly, ugly, has a tinny unsophisticated voice, never finished his 6th grade education, and has a drunken raving lunatic for a wife. Who in their right mind would ever trust such a man as president?

This is just a theory of mine, but I think there may be more to being presidential that just paper qualifications.

[EST]

5. Lincoln did look pretty unqualified, didn't he?

[ellenfl]

2. just be thankful they don't hold him up

against dubya. one would have to have 50 years experience to get over his lack thereof.

ellen fl

[iamjoy]

3. Who Cares About Experience?

The most experienced people of my grandparent's generation got us into Korea and Vietnam. The most experienced people of my parent's generation got us into Iraq.

to hell with experience. Give me intelligence any day.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. The MSM accurate?

LOL!