Self-composed

Just about every time any of the candidates are discussed, someone brings up experience. I’ve joined in the game myself. “Palin has more executive experience than Obama.” It’s fun. I’m not alone, take this excellent comparison of Obama’s campaign experience compared to Palin’s at the Beldar Blog. That Obama is probably the most inexperienced president ever to serve, should he be elected, is not in dispute. The fact is, when you get down to it, it doesn’t matter.

That’s right. Obama’s lack of experience is not an issue. In fact, his inexperience and naiveté give me comfort, making the prospect of his winning the election just a little easier digest. For the conservative out there who still isn’t following me, I ask you this: If Obama had an extra 20 years practice at implementing his Marxist agenda behind him would you be happier with him in the White House? Do you think you’ll approve of his policy decisions and performance more during his last years in office?

Unfortunately, a President Obama would have no problem getting his socialist agenda pushed through, experience or not. He’ll have lots of help.

Its about ideology. Reagan wasn’t the greatest president of our time because he was experience, he was the greatest president because he had clear, conservative principles and he acted on them. Jimmy Carter was the worst president of our time because he had clear liberal principles and he acted on them.

Now, keep in mind, conservatives and liberals with all the ideology in the world aren’t going to decide the election. The fence-sitting independents will. The American Idol watchers. These are the people who might think it’d be neat to have a young, black president this time instead of an old white one, and vote accordingly. The less shallow among them will look to things like experience to help them decide. Unfortunately, they don’t think much about ideology, which is what truly separates and distinguishes the candidates.

What about the call at 3:00 in the morning? Hilary Clinton never took such calls and she’s the one who launched that little back and forth. A president has a league of lackeys, all experts in their own little niche, keeping their finger on the pulse, ready to brief the chief executive with a short list of the most practical options if something remarkable happens in their corner of the world, and the president has advisers that’ll help him choose what is most politically expedient. The question is, from what set of principles will the next president base his decisions on? How will he choose among the options?

The conversation over coffee with the American Idol watchers needs to be about whether they really like the idea of earning money so someone else doesn’t have to. It needs to be about whether foreign policy decisions are based primarily on furthering national interests and making Americans safer and more prosperous or improving the popularity of our government among the governments of the rest of the world. They need to decide between a government that recognized groups based on things like skin color, gender, etc, or a government that respects the individual. They need to decide between a larger, more powerful government that does everything for them while doing anything to them, and one that stays out of the way and preserves opportunity for everyone.

Now referencing someone’s occupation is a racist slur. Gov. David Paterson of New York is accusing the Republican Party of using references to Obama’s past as a community organizer in place of an attack on Obama’s race.

“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a ‘community organizer.’ They kept saying it, they kept laughing,”

Gov. David Paterson of New York

Watch closely. Here is what you have to believe and the dots you have to connect in order to lend even a speck of credence to Paterson’s remark.

1. Republicans are racist - they don’t like Obama because he is black.
2. Significant numbers of undecided voters are racist and could be swayed with racial epithets.
3. These racist undecided voters need reminding that Obama is half black.
4. Republicans are conspiring to remind them of Obama’s race with coded attacks on Obama’s race.
5. When the undecided racists hear “community organizer” they know to remove the obvious context and hear something like “uppity negro” instead and think “oh yeah, that rascal is half black - I better not vote for him.”

That’s what Governor Paterson expects you to believe. Unfortunately, there are people who will vote against Obama because of his race - liberal, conservative, and otherwise. (Likewise, and just as unfortunate, there are those who will vote for Obama because of his race.) The point is, they don’t need veiled remarks from the McCain camp to fuel their stupidity.

All Paterson really wants to do is hurt his opponent - the McCain campaign along with Republicans and conservatives in general. In response to the sting caused by the jab that besides a couple brief stints as a legislator, all Obama can list on his resume as experience is community organizer, this liberal flails back with an accusation of racism. Nothing new.

The sick part is, they are reaching this far to make the accusation. In the past, it was just exploiting some gaff that could (but need not) be taken the wrong way - like the episode involving Strom Thurmond’s birthday party. Now all you have to do to be accused of racism is note that someone who brags about having been a community organizer was a community organizer.

I can’t remember who I heard make the point first, but it was a good one: Obama’s campaign, win or lose, is not going to heal problems of racism, it will make things worse. Why? Because as we see hear, anything said about him, no matter how true, that brings out something negative, will be seen as racism. If he loses the election, it will be on account of racism (not the fact that he’s a marxist who’s associated with angry extremists with a thin resume and shallow plan for the country) and if he takes the White House, anyone pointing out his bad decisions will be called a racist.

Paterson’s remarks are one of the countless exhibits in evidence of this very truth. This particular problem has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the pathetic, dishonest, and desperate behavior of liberals who’ll sink to any low to gain or keep power.

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