Frankly, experience just doesn’t matter at the White House (mostly). Of course McCain makes plenty sense as he a typical choice in terms of tried and true politics and all the big ticket issues our country faces for decades at a time. We are forgetting that it’s not so much the experience he alone brings to the office, but the experience of those who assist and advise him in his decisions. Let’s face it, neither McCain or Barrack are really ready to endure the full sway of responsibility that comes with leading a country (that is also entrenched in silly war). That’s just a fact.

Heart vs. Experience

McCain knows politics better than Obama. There, I said it. However, that is simply just more premeditated agenda to deal with if McCain actually wins. Young inexperience changes, molds and learns faster. Obama puts people first. McCain puts policy first. Policy doesn’t really matter if the people aren’t behind it. I’d rather have a bumbling noob-monster running around the White House than an aged unchanging politician who refuses to see things with a fresh perspective.

On paper, McCain is the best choice for this country. But in reality, we’re simply reanimating the same old lame strategies we’ve had for the last 12 years. Both McCain and Obama believe its time for better politics in America. However, I think McCain will have a much harder time implementing those aspirations.

Large vs. Small

There seems to be a well-believed understanding that McCain supports smaller government and Obama supports big government. Frankly, neither of them matter at all. Big or small, our current government sucks. When there is a problem, you can generally expect both local and federal governments to be 5 years behind the curve in giving in to the needs of the people they govern. Stimulus checks? We should have been getting those every other year for the past 25 years.

Neither size government will solve the problem. We have plenty of resources in both arena’s to support 2 other countries, but in the case of the United States, it’s a problem of inefficiency, not size. Improve what we already have. Clean house and get lean so that our people can see real solutions to real problems.

Hurricane Katrina was an example of how slow our government was both locally and on the federal level. The Red Cross didn’t even react until our federal government screwed everything up. So really, change has to come to big government before we see change in small government. We assume it needs to be the other way around. But that is not the case and never will be the case.

Conclusion

All in all, McCain and Obama present compelling reasons to vote for them and my heart still lies with Obama. But 6-12 months after November we’ll definitely have a better idea of how this 4 year term will pan out for whomever this country chooses as it’s president.