Posted by
Andrews on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 1:24:12 PM
I have written before to ask
why Obama is qualified to be president and
how he can engage in negotiations with other nations if he's afraid to debate his political opponents, but I think this may be the most telling question yet.
What I want to ask Obama supporters is this:
Both supporters and opponents must agree that Obama is not the most experienced candidate int he race, in fact he is rather inexperienced by almost any imaginable standard. And he doesn't really have exceptional experience in his life before politics either.
However, unlike many conservatives, I am willing to grant that an inexperienced candidate could still be a good president. That is, he could be, if he had some startling new insight into government, some novel approach which would change how we see things.
The problem is, I just don't see anything new in Obama's platform. When he bothers to provide any specifics at all, they sound just like the
same old liberal plans we have been hearing for many years.
So, this is my question for Obama supporters: What in Obama's platform is so appealing? I admit that most of it is quite vague, so I know that anything you say will have to be at least partly supposition, but what precisely about the platform presented by Obama inspires you to vote for him?
Somehow, except "he's against the war" and maybe a handful of "he's for universal healthcare", I won't get many answers.