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I shall not answer your charge on Obama supporters being horrible people, because I have read enough of your own posts to know how hollow that charge rings coming from you.
Thus I will answer your real point.
I value the experience only so far as it demonstrates the ability to make wise choices. Insulting foreign leaders, who you will need on your side if you are to fix America, dispells, to my view, a lot of the mystique of someone having experience.
As does voting for a disasterous war in Iraq.
Obama, might not have the experience that Hillary has, but his experience includes a surprising degree of maturity. For example, when he spoke on immigration and inner city unemployment, I hear a person refusing to take the popular scapegoat.
And his speech against the war in Iraq, made when America's bloodlust was up, has proven to be right on the money.
Now obviously we see the candidates differently, we are both operating off of our own perspectives and our own collection of biases. That is okay because we are adults, and we do not depend on strangers on the internet to validate our views.
We shall see over the next few years, which of us is right and which of us is wrong.
