Political Experience

I would like to open the door on the political experience of Politicians. Since the candidates have been running in order to get the nomination by their parties and by the american voters, there have been some plays by the media as well as by the oponents of the candidates of how much experience a candidate has in foreign relations and their track record as a Politician.

The older generation of Americans tend to not be swayed in their decisions on who they vote for. If they have always voted Republican then Americans still vote Republican and Americans who have always voted Democratic then they remain voting as they always have. But, with alot of the younger generation such as the college students, the working middle class, and Americans who make less than sixteen thousand a year are now becoming voters due to change and wanting change within the government and society.

A politicians experience does not have to do with their experience in foreign relations. George Washington was a Planter, Thomas Jefferson was a Planter and Lawyer, William H. Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower were soldiers, Andrew Johnson a tailor, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy were Authors, Warren G. Harding an Editor, Woodrow Wilson an Educator, Herbert C. Hoover an Engineer, Lyndon B. Johnson a Teacher, Ronald W. Reagan an Actor and once Governor of California, Jimmy Carter Jr., George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush were Businessman. The backgrounds of these men who have served as our leader of our nation have not had political experience in foreign relations with other nations. It just proves that these men had no experience in foreign relations and some have done a better job as Commander In Chief than some of the other President’s who have been in office. 

I like what the media and the cross referencing of John McCain portrays Barack Obama as having no experience in foreign relations and this may portray him week as President of the United States, he does have experience in politics as far as on a Federal level in the State of Illinois and to make the changes that he has made within the system with medical coverage for children, taking Americans from welfare to work in programs that he has reformed and made a difference within the community and the state he represented. It does make a differnce in a person’s character when they take a low paying job as an average American citizen and making it a positive for society and this is what he chose to do instead of taking a position with a prestigious law firm and this says alot about his character as a man. Barack Obama chose a great Vice Presidential Candidate as his running mate Joe Biden. Yes, he has political experience in foreign relations. Barack as Commander In Chief of a nation, has to set up his cabinet in order to run the nation with those who have experience in the areas that is needed.