just an aside here..but i was thinking......ok, it hurt, but i tried
Anyway, i look at it this way. If someone gets through the primaries for their respective parties...then, IN GENERAL, people think they have enough executive experience or ideas or 'something' that will make them a good president. You may or may not agree with their positions or whatever, but, again, IN GENERAL, the level of person that it takes to get this far in a presidential race means they will likely be able to at least 'handle the job". I mean, even coolidge did it while taking 4 hr naps during the day and saying very little.
So, i think this 'executive experience' card is kinda bullishit, honestly. Mccain/obama are both qualified....now here is my issue:
nobody voted for which VP candidate they picked. Heck, mccain could have picked his neighbor's brother if he so chose. THAT person has not been tested or tried, merely tapped, and generally, the VP selection shows the first real decision the person makes as a presidential candidate.
my point: the VP had to do nothing but 'be there' for the candidate to tap. SOOooooooo, you would think the candidate would choose someone he/she thought was experienced enough.... If not, then you start to question the candidate who made the selection. In this case, people are questioning mccain's thought processes and they are starting to see that he is desperate and pandering and trying to turn the race away from the issues and more towards a battle of personalities, and he now has the freshest personality on the stage. I think people will eventually see through this.
All of this brought to you by Juan Valdez and his wonderful coffee
as for the 'right or wrong direction'..... anyone who looks at the state of affairs in the US today and thinks this is a good direction to be going..please..please look around. I'm not generally a pessimist, but there are more than a few questionable positions we are all in....