bound to obey and serve (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} elfundeb) wrote,@ 2008-11-04 09:07:00 |
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Executive Experience Not Necessary
I am off to the polls.
In the event you read this before voting, and encounter someone today who is still worried about Obama's supposed lack of experience, a two-word response is sufficient:
Abraham Lincoln
After one congressional term and one failed run at the Senate, he became the compromise Republican candidate in 1860. Initially derided as an ignorant back-country "Railsplitter," Lincoln did make some mistakes (everyone does!), but he proved to be brilliant at executing his vision and, at least as importantly, holding together a fractious coalition of advisers ranging from out-and-out abolitionists to border-state, anti-Emancipationists.
I am off to the polls.
In the event you read this before voting, and encounter someone today who is still worried about Obama's supposed lack of experience, a two-word response is sufficient:
Abraham Lincoln
After one congressional term and one failed run at the Senate, he became the compromise Republican candidate in 1860. Initially derided as an ignorant back-country "Railsplitter," Lincoln did make some mistakes (everyone does!), but he proved to be brilliant at executing his vision and, at least as importantly, holding together a fractious coalition of advisers ranging from out-and-out abolitionists to border-state, anti-Emancipationists.
