He has more foreign policy experience - WOW

BedHead
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:11:11 +0000

According to the Huffington Post blog, Obama was addressing a crowd of fundraisers in San Francisco on Sunday when he began talking about his choice for vice president, and said he would choose someone who adds to his expertise.



Expertise is not synonymous with experience, and that is the premise of this entire thread. And it is bunk. Intelligence, judgement, and wisdom come into play too. Obama’s demonstrated incisive intelligence and he’s led a cosmopolitan life that encompasses the complexities of the modern world. Hell, double McCain’s experience for all I care: if he still mixed up such basic differences as Shi’ites and Sunnis and he goes in a flak jacket to a market in the Green Zone to declare all Iraq much more stable, he’s demonstated at best a lack of understanding and at worst a penchant for willful misleading.

This thread should die. It’s based on not understanding the difference between expertise and experience.