White House

Experience Schmerience

I agree with Atrios:

Adding that I think the whole "experience" debate is a stupid one. There is no job like the presidency, and candidates should be mostly evaluated on what they say they'll do. That isn't to say that there is no information about a candidate that can be derived from their past experiences, just that "experience" doesn't really convey much information. I personally have no experience in government, but I'd surely have been a better president than George Bush! Still his "governor of Texas" resume would've trumped my "no experience in government at all" resume in the experience wars.

I've said since the beginning that even a child would've reacted and responded to 9/11 the way President Bush did. And that's been his biggest so-called "accomplishment" according to the very serious media.