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Originally Posted by Axeman
My reasoning behind it was/is that without the experience of the senate and being on some committees his resume is lacking and sets himself up to be beaten in the GE and also my fear is/was if he got in by some chance that his lack of experience and learning on the job would cause a series of missteps opening the door up for being outed after 4 years and ruining what I thought would be a sure lock for two terms and strong legacy when the time was right.
Honestly I didn't think he would get this far, and thought he would get beat up on his lack of record and a few various things like voting present and such and thought it also would be stupid to go thru that just for the sake of doing it and therefor potentially jeopardizing his potential in 4 to 8 years.
Now he hasn't been beaten up bad at all so far, but its coming from the Right soon enough and I am not sure he has enough to fight it. Again we'll see.
I'd hate to see him fail in his bid and get beaten up or get tossed in 4 years and waste the potential he had to lead for a strong 8 after a solid bid in the meantime as a potential Vice.
In some ways I was kinda hoping Edwards would win the primary and ask Obama to be his Vice.
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2 things.
1st, there is no job on the planet that can prepare a person to be President of the United States. Ask any former President (excluding Bill Clinton right now because his wife is running on experience)....ask any of them, as long and impressive as their resumes were, they'll all tell you that nothing prepares you for being President. The job is unique.
The only thing you can hope for is that a person has the character, and the intelligence to make the right decisions, and that they are willing to surround themselves with the right kind of people, not just yes men, to help advise them on those decisions.
2nd, staying in the Senate for 8 more years, authoring 20 pieces of legislation and casting 1000 more votes, would not make him any more prepared to be President than he is today. This is exactly what Dick Durbin, the senior Senator from Illinois told Obama when they discussed whether or not Obama should run for President.
On another note, you say you hoped that Edwards would win and make Obama VP.
Obama has ALOT more "experience" than Edwards.
Edwards was in the Senate for 1 term, the rest of his life he was a trial lawyer.
Obama was a community organizer, a civil rights lawyer, a state representative, a state senator (with an impressive track record of pushing bi-partisan legislation through), and a United States Senator for the last 4 years.
The "present" vote thing is a non-issue. It's a legislative tactic that is specific to Illinois, and 99% of the time he voted that way it's because that's what his party's leadership asked him to do, because it was part of a larger strategy to fix errors in what the leadership determined were "bad bills".
