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The question of ‘experience’

Who will do a better job? Hillary Clinton is the more experienced candidate of the two, however, what has experience taught us? Clinton, the experienced candidate voted for the Iraq War.

Additionally, it is on her watch that millions of Americans remain uninsured; it is on her watch that while as of 6pm today we’ve spent $450,316,091,222.00 in Iraq, 13% of the US population is below the Federal Poverty Line; it is on her watch that America’s debt to China (in fixed-interest loans) stands close to $650 billion AND the list goes on.

Now, I understand that there is no magic wand that Clinton can wave (or could have waved) to fix the issues that face the United States today, but she IS part of the breed of experienced politicians that ARE to a lessor or greater degree responsible for these problems.

In light of the aforementioned, (and among other things) it appears as though, when it comes to experience, Obama (only recently elected to the Senate) actually has the upper hand. BUT is the United States ready for an inexperienced President at such a pivotal time in her history?

Does Obama have the balls (figuratively speaking) to take this country out of Iraq and turn the health care and education systems around? How about the economy? Perhaps America needs someone WITHOUT the experience; someone without the experience that actually helped shaped the systematic cataclysm that exists today.

The question of ‘gender/race’

As if the real issues that Americans face are not enough, many are still questioning whether the United States is ready for a female president. It would be a waste of time to expunge on this. The writing is already on the wall; some of the most effective world leaders have been women, including, but not limited to Sonia Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel.

That aside, there exists the incredibly outlandish question in black circles regarding the degree of Obama’s ‘blackness’. It is an absurdity that while William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton, (who is Caucasian) is fondly known in the black community to be ‘America’s first black President’; Obama, who is half white (half black) is being criticized for not being black enough. Is a certain sector of the population watching too much BET?

At the end of the day, should race, experience or gender matter? I think not. To say that a Obama is not qualified because he is not black enough is an insult to Martin Luther King, Jr. who paid the ultimate price for this day to come when the United States would have a leading black Presidential Candidate.

To say that Clinton is not qualified to run because she is a woman is an insult to women around the world who have no rights including the right to vote, the right to speak in public and the right to hold (public) office.

At the end of the day, the REAL issues NEED to be addressed. Thousands of our troops have died in a senseless Civil War (in Iraq) while America decays morally, financially and infrastructurally. Millions of our children do not have access to affordable and quality health-care and education; the borders are not secure from terrorists who’s intention is to harm us; the list goes on and on.

The United States needs a President who is willing to face the reality of what exists; she needs a President that is willing to pull her up by her bootstraps; she needs a President who is willing to stand up for what is right (not only the right wing); she needs a President who is a man or woman of faith.