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What is the 'experience' needed that everybody keeps talking about? Balancing budgets, passing legislation? These things have been done ineffectually under people with supposedly more experience. Obama has a great deal of real life experience coming from a broken home in poverty to a Harvard grad and beyond. If he treats national spending like responsible household spending (and I haven't heard that he's in the red or losing his house) he could just as easily manage spending like Clinton or McCain. He's a Senator and has partaken in all the customary "selfless" good deeds with regard to volunteer community projects and has been involved in legislation.
I don't think we'll see much change even if he gets into office. Every President runs into the same problems - parties not coming together and rejecting all proposals from the other side, the lobbies and special interests with all the money and power to pull the plug or block legislation, politicians that have to satisfy their constituencies to remain in power will also strongarm the President to keep the status quo on how things are run. The only chance a President has is to try to make the process as transparent as possible. Let the nation know what legislation you're trying to pass and why, and broadcast who it is that is rejecting it and why.
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