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Gabu
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« on: December 12, 2006, 12:30:16 AM »

I like Obama, he is great, but not ready to be President.

Lincoln barely had any elected experience at all when he became president.

Roosevelt was only governor of New York for four years before becoming president.

Eisenhower had no political experience whatsoever when he became president.

Kennedy had all of eight years in the Senate before becoming president, a lot of which he was absent for due to nearly dying on account of spinal surgery.

In a lot of ways presidents hailed as great have their talents determined by their character, not by their experience.  You can be in the senate for fifty years or a governor for four terms and still not be presidential material.  There's very little that a longer legislative career will aid you in becoming the chief executive official of the federal government.
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Gabu
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E: -4.32, S: -6.52

« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 06:46:59 PM »

this is the ridiculousness that will make me vote against Obama.

 wouldn't happen to have anything to do with it?

Considering I said that I was undecided in a race between Obama and Romney, probably not.

C'mon, Obama has a lot of things going for him, things like sincerity, eloquence, intelligence, but the comparisons to Lincoln, FDR, DDE, and JFK are ridiculous. 

For the record, I was not saying "OBAMA IS THE NEXT LINCOLN", only that history has shown that candidates with little experience can make great presidents.

And come on, I share a candidate with BRTD, and I still support him.  Not supporting someone just because you don't like a section of that candidate's supporters is just silly.
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Gabu
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E: -4.32, S: -6.52

« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2008, 02:09:00 AM »

Obama is intelligent enough, but he's also arrogant and humorless.

Arrogant?  Humorless?

I must assume you haven't seen him talk much.
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Gabu
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E: -4.32, S: -6.52

« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2008, 07:09:16 AM »

Obama definitely has a good sense of humour, but I worry that all this adulation he's getting will go to his head.

If it was going to go to his head, I'd think it would have already happened by now.
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