The picture worth a thousand words:

Of course EXPERIENCE counts but that's not the only requirement.

I can tell you Obama's "presence of mind" will help him in his presidency. It's not that the president alone is going to make decisions. What is more important is the President's ability to  foster the good ideas.

Mr. Bush Jr. has seven years of experience as the president, 5 yrs as Governer of Florida and 4 years as  'First son" . I am sure  he would make a good president for another four years if he is allowd.  

What experience are you talking about? Just being in the Senate and House doesn't count as expeirence. Obama has 11 yrs of elected office experience compared to 8 years of Hillary. Well if you count Hillary's experience as First Lady of Arkansas and White house then I don't have anything to say...

You guys are emphasizing the no brainer experience that Hillary and Mccain have. They have experience of doing things wrong. Hey see the age difference. He would have served two terms as the US presidnet at the age of Hillary or Mccain.

You have to have charisma, enthusiasm and right knowledge for change and development. You pessimistic fells who support for Hillary and Mccain. Nell if you talk about experience, I think you are not old enough (experienced enough ) to make points here in Sajha. However, I believe, you are brillant, you can come and make points here as Barack is doing in political field.

Few points:

-Iran is preparing for a nuclear missile that could reach Israel and kill millions of people.

-Pakistan is collapsing as we speak and Al-Qaida are gaining momentum.

-Chinese are making new threats against Taiwan and in desperate measure to stop the collapese of summer olympics.

-Russia has just stood up and Putin has decided to declare that Russia is back in the forefront of world affairs.

-We all know what happened in Kenyan election. Africa is as dangerous as ever with darfur crisis.

-UN, the so called body to police world state of affairs, is breaking.

-Muslim population is at the boiling point and as hostile as ever against the west.

Its a darn dangerous world out there and what we have as the potential leaders of the free world are community organizers and lawyers that have no experience in world affairs. Just heavy rhetorics that lacks any kind of substance.

Amen to Nell. Bull's eye.

Nell, I have the same answer. You at your teenage, how come you can argue with the individuals like me who are in their 30s and still make a point? You don't have point since you don't have experience to make a point.

Being old and having experience in doing things wrong do not give you license for an office. Mind this. If you think Barack is not experienced enough for the office, please don't drop a line here to make a point. People are fed up with dirty politics. Why it was okay for America to vote for Bill Clinton when he didn't have experience in 1992? George Bush was in office for 4 years then. Why was it okay for son Bush to run for president and win 2 terms without having sufficient experience? He defeated 8 year long vice president Al Gore then. Hey guys use a common sense. The inexperience card is not working here. All you need to do is to inspire people. I am sure he will make a great president. That is what he is making sure to make people comfortable for what he offers.

Nell said : "It was more than 45 years ago that JFK got elected and I can tell with full certainty that Senator Obama is no Jack Kennedy."  Well following US politics for some time I have to agree with you on this.  The only similarities between them are they both give good speech .  The major difference is that JFK fought Castro all his life and Senator Obama wants to meet Castro during his first year as President.  JFK was some what central, not soo conservative, not soo liberal.  Obama was the most liberal senator last year. 

Good luck to those who want to make this about experience. At a time when people are sick and tired of the establishment, running on experience might not yield dividends. HRC has lost 10 elections in a row -across diverse demographics - that surely says something about the role of experience in this campaign. I think Obama's supposed lack of experience is an asset in many ways as it tell people that he doesn't have the political baggage that comes with such experience.

In other news, Hillary's campaign is running up a  debt

Not the sign of a campaign doing well.