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Joan, You say it well. This is just another example of Obama's inexperience and whether his supporters admit it; the "swift boat republicans" will blow him away with this and his minister. He should have served at least one full term in the US Senate as he has no record. He really hasn't done anything in the US Senate and had he been in the Senate when the authorization for the war in Iraq came around; who knows how he would have voted, as in the Illinois state senate he voted "PRESENT" 130 times. A President has to take a stand; he can't vote "Present." His minister was his mentor and he has taken lessons from Ted Kennedy; so does that make him qualified. People are following after Obama just as they did bush because they wanted to have a beer with bush. Well, look where that got us. We can't afford another on the job training as our country is in the worst mess since Hoover and the depression. We need experience.
