One of the main arguments against Barack Obama for President is that McCain has more experience, or rather, Obama does not have enough experience.

My favorite rebuttal against that is this: Look where experience has gotten us so far.

My question to you is does this work? My (admittedly naive) view on it is that the government has been filled with old, white men for so long that we need an injection of youth with a background that is a little farther off the norm of a privileged upbringing (not that Obama was not privilaged, but perhaps less so.) Maybe McCain is a “maverick” (def. One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter - dictionary.com) but on (my personal most significant) issues like the war, abortion (repeal Roe v. Wade? is that considered maverick?), gay rights, stem cell research and health care, McCain seems right in line with the rest of the old, white guys.

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