Letters to the Editor
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Obama and the Bobby Sox
Unless the young voters who flock to Obama had a sound course or two in political science, Obama has the charisma to woo high school and college students.
They know the Obama is smart, charming, in charge in a laid back way.
But does smart, charming, and in charge Obama
equate with experience, education, years of hands on and head to head politics on a much wider scale?
However lithe and charming and youthful Obama may be, to go eye to eye and toe to toe with the
most powerful, most schooled, most cosmopolitan
leaders in the world is not an inherent part of who he is as he aspires to the most powerful job in the world.
Charm and native intelligence and even a Harvard educaiton will only go so far. Experience, judgment, connections, mastery of various cultures, acquaintance with many foriegn nations and their leaders,experiening the unrelenting exhaustion of world travel, how to interact with a host of people who assist him daily.
Hillary knows all that already. People may say that she is not young enough, strong enough,
too often embroiled in her husband's pecadilos,
many different approaches to managing and leading.
Better a tough old bird than a fledgling.