False Sense of Maturity

I am a proud supporter of Barack Obama. I have read his latest book (which received a Grammy for the audio-book edition). I have listened to many of the debates and followed both primaries and now the general election. I listen to NPR (National Public Radio) for about 2 hours through the course of each day on my commute to and from each of my jobs (my psychiatric clinic and working at **** County Psychiatric ER). I check the newspapers several times each week. I check CNN.com, MSNBC.com, watch both sides via YouTube, and follow NBC news on TV most mornings and check in with Fox “news” and try to research their frequent slurs on whomever they slander.

In my opinion, Barack Obama is more than qualified, and moreover, the most competent for the job.

According to the United States Constitution, Barack Obama is more than qualified.

I am grateful the age requirements for president are not “over 70″ and that “you must be a former POW.”

The arguments presented in your forward are not valid arguments. Regional Managers are often selected for their “lack” of internal experience - businesses look outside for educated professionals with diverse experience. Failing businesses do not look to those in the company who have been part of the problem to now rescue their business.

The President of the United States is the presiding citizen of this country - selected from its citizenry by those very citizens.

We now have a choice between two fine men. Those two men each have others as advisers and have running mate who will replace them in event of their death. One has been a Washington insider his whole life, is statistically likely to die while in office, and has chosen a mate who is young, inexperienced, fanatical, and has surprisingly little knowledge of national politics. The other has not been a Washington insider, but is experienced as a senator, state legislator, and community organizer. He has disclosed his values and beliefs quite openly in his writings and has reinforced them in the consistent message of his public speeches, rallies, town-hall meetings, debates and interviews. His running mate (who isn’t likely to inherit the office) has decades of insider experience and can add significant wisdom and perspective to the president. The other running mate was a beauty queen and a “good ol boy” style small town politics - something of an attractive boss-Hogg-esque style mayor.

I severely question McCain’s wisdom in his choice of running mate. I understand the desperation his campaign is in and, therefore, the gamble he took in selecting her. But, that gamble was made with the potential leadership of this nation and therefore the free-world.

We may have had an exceptionally qualified and capable president in Hillary Clinton. We now may have a ex-radical know-nothing as president.

I enjoy hearing from family and friends about their views and perspectives about their values and politics. I feel, however, that these circulated forwards on either side of the political fence serve only to promote thoughtless finger-pointing, dumb-down the real issues and are overall in bad taste.

This country is failing in a major way. It needs rescuing by someone with diverse outside experience who knows how to talk with others that he both likes and dislikes. Barack can do that. McCain will hardly engage Barack Obama in polite conversation and furthers Bush’s policy of giving dangerous criminal leaders of third-world nations the “silent treatment.” That is a terrible psychology and neglects the very crux of presidential responsibilities. It doesn’t work in jails, in prisons, in psychiatric practice. It doesn’t work anywhere because it only serves to promote misunderstanding and further alienation.