Barack Obama’s Lack of Experience

I am told that George Washington lacked experience, and he seemed to do O.K.

Too much experience is not always a good thing. If it were, then we would not have amended the constitution to limit each president to 2 terms in office.

Perhaps it is good to have less experience. People with too much experience can become jaded, corrupt, manipulative, scheming.

No one person can KNOW everything. But anyone who is a team player can assemble panels of experts and take their advice. BUT, one person CAN desire everything, or should I say covet, and plot to usurp more power for the executive office than it should have.

The problems of our economy and our environment cannot be eliminated by any one person. BUT, one person CAN make them far worse through poor judgment.

The forces which threaten our economy and our environment have been at work for a century or longer. Perhaps they cannot be reversed. Doom can be delayed through prudent governance, but the pattern cannot be reversed.

The problems of any nation lie not in the character of the leader, but in the character of the people. If the general public itself is prodigal, than no Solomon, however wise, can save the public from its prodigality.

Gandhi once said "you must yourself become the very change which you desire to see in the world."

Gandhi was right, but will the public take heed of such wisdom? I doubt it.