Thursday, November 6, 2008

Now Hiring - President of the United States of America - No Experience Required

Last month I wrote a post called 143 Days of Experience.

It was written about the fact that B. Hussein Obama - at the time he decided to form his exploratory committee for his bid for the Presidency - had a mere 143 days of experience as a Senator. Prior to that he was a "community organizer."

Somehow, slightly more people (and that blasted Electoral College) have been snowed by a branding campaign ("Change") into believing that B. Hussein Obama is more qualified than John McCain for the highest office in the land.

Let's take a quick review of what you can NOT do after a mere 143 days of experience:
  • You couldn't become chief of surgery after 143 days of experience as a surgeon.
  • You can't get a job as a new teacher and be the superintendent after 143 days of experience.
  • You can't join the military and suddenly become a colonel after a 143 days of experience.
  • You can't get a job as a reporter and become the nightly news anchor after 143 days of experience.
  • You can't even get your first job at McDonald's and become a district manager after 143 days of experience!
Yet, he is now President-elect.

When I applied for my first "real" job post-college after 143 days of interning for the company I was at, there is no way I would suddenly be qualified to run the place. Yet we have elected a man with just that much experience to run our country.

"Change," they all screamed. Change...they got. We went from a President who said he "didn't inhale" (yeah, right) to a President-elect who said he's done cocaine...and unless I missed something...he didn't condemn doing drugs, he just admitted to having done them.

For those of you who voted for "change" - you're getting it. I just don't think you know what you're getting.

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