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Right. There have been so many charismatic 2 year Senators with no other national experience elected President. I can think of.... well, none, actually. I suppose you could go back to Lincoln, like many Obama supporter's do, but Lincoln was a nationally recognized and widely experienced orator at the time of his election, so he was technically more experienced than Obama. But he didn't have more Senate experience, so I'll grant you that. If you go back nearly 150 years, you'll find someone with as little experience as Obama being nominated for President and winning. I'm sure that his being black has nothing to do with his "historic" campaign to bring "change" to the nation and show people that we have moved past racism.
