Obama Experience

An International Community Endorsement for Obama

Meghan Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes down to it, Obama's success in foreign policy won't be measured by his experience, but by the world's perception of his ideals and integrity.

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RNC Mailer: If Obama Was Your Doctor, You'd Get Another Doctor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new anti-Obama mailer from the Republican Party hit voters late this weekend, and it goes after the Democratic candidate for being so dangerously in...

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Most International Bloggers Think Obama Won on Temperament

Amira Al Hussaini | Posted 05.25.2011

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One blogger wrote: "Obama was unbelievably calm, collected and straight to the point. In fact he went out of his way to be nice while McCain was constantly attacking and putting on that fake, scary smile. Damn, that smile is scary."

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Only 20 Presidents Had More Experience Than Obama

John K. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even if Obama were inexperienced, that would be no reason to vote against him. History shows us that an experienced politician usually makes for a lousy president. In fact, the most consistent variable to predict a failed presidency is experience.

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POWer Play

Paul Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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We tend to excuse Senator McCain's irrational outbursts and inappropriate behavior -- including a 1995 scuffle with a 92-year-old Senate colleague (from his own party, no less) -- by referring to their root cause.

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Sarah Palin: From the Sublime to the Insulting

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In what universe does Sarah Palin's experience qualify her to be vice president? The choice is not only cynical -- it's insulting to women, and insulting to the entire American electorate.

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A Critical Examination Of The Experience Question

Phil Vogels | Posted 05.25.2011

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This research does not necessarily demonstrate that Obama will be a better president than McCain. But it does demonstrate without a doubt that the "experience" argument against Obama is a complete crock.

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Old Vs. Change: Voters' Images Of McCain And Obama

AP | ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Now more than ever, it's the old guy against the agent of change. Ask people to blurt out their first words about the two presiden...

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Obama Left Community Organizing To Make "Large Scale Change"

NY Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The year was 1985 and Gerald Kellman, a community organizer, was interviewing an applicant named Barack Obama to work in the demoralized landscape of ...

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Clark Was Right on McCain, But Now We're Talking About the Wrong Issue

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Go back and read Wes Clark's statement. He simply said that McCain's fate -- the act of having your plane shot down -- is not relevant to the skills of being an executive. Isn't that true?

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Experience: Does Obama Trump McCain?

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

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We are in the opening days of a presidential campaign that pits youth against age, the virtues of experience against the freshness and riskiness of th...

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The Inexperience Knock May Be a Bigger Hazard than Race to Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The reality is that inexperienced presidents often make poor crisis managers. The disastrous proof is the administration of the man that Obama seeks to replace.

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Obama And Clinton Embellish Their Roles

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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After weeks of arduous negotiations, on April 6, 2006, a bipartisan group of senators burst out of the "President's Room," just off the Senate chamber...

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Obama Primes Virginia Supporters For Potomac Primary

Mark Pike | Posted 05.25.2011

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An estimated 18,000 people gathered in Virginia Beach to see presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. "This has got to be the biggest political rall...

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Young Voters Dismiss Clinton's "Obama Is Inexperienced" Criticism

Elana Berkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senator Clinton's attacks on Senator Obama's "inexperience" might not be playing particularly well with young people.

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Obama: Bill Clinton's Advisers Prefer Me To Hillary

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama suggested Friday that he has more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration backing his candidacy over Hillary Rodham Clinto...

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Clinton Mocks Obama: Being A 10-Year-Old In Indonesia Isn't Foreign Policy Experience

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hillary Rodham Clinton ridiculed Democratic rival Barack Obama on Tuesday for his contention that living abroad as a child helped give him a better un...

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Obama Bucks Critics, Holds "Judgment And Experience" Rallies

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tomorrow is the five-year anniversary of Democrat Barack Obama's fiery speech against the Iraq war, and he's not going to let that go unnnoticed. The...

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