Obama's Experience: Quality vs. Quantity

Since most of the anti-Obama claims I hear are about his lack of national office experience, I think it’s worth taking a critical look at what experience he does have:

“People who complain that Barack Obama lacks experience must be unaware of his legislative achievements….”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html

I’d also point people interested to a page about one bill he co-authored as a senator: to re-direct funding to the NATO destruction of conventional weapons caches actually being used against our military forces while everyone else was frantically screaming about WMDs. Ahh, the fresh scent of reality and sense:

http://fas.org/asmp/campaigns/MANPADS/2005/LugarObama.htm