Posted by
Tim Blessing on Friday, February 29, 2008 7:18:28 PM
War is a dirty business in any day or time. Barack say's he has judgement. I wonder where his Judgement has been used before that qualify's him to be Commander in Chief. Certainly, a community organizer is no experience. Being a Civil Rights Attorney is no preparation, being a Academic certainly provide's no professional experience. I suppose its an instinctive judgement. I'm not sure how you quantify that last point.
To oppose the Iraq War five years ago look's great now, but has he upgraded his knowledge all along to have a way out of the mess.
Quantitative analysis and Qualitative analysis require education and work experience to deal with crises.
Obama has not shown any direct or indirect training in this area.
Hillary has eight years in the White House as an adviser plus seven years in the senate that while they maybe lawmaking it is again professional experience.
On this issue, McCain outclass's both his opponents with 50 years in the National Security Business.
Crisis Management is more the forte of Republicans since Eisenhower, except for Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Crisis Management is a primarily an executive function than a legislative function more of a military function than a civilian function.
More about reacting immediately to outside pressure with the two sole determinants being your ability to have insight, the use of current information, and calling on your prior experience to make decisions without regard to cost or error.
McCain is number one on crisis management, Hillary come's second, and Obama come's third.
I hope we don't have a rerun of Jimmy Carter through Obama.