[pepsi_junkie]

"He doesn't have experience at the senior levels of national government. But I've seen other individuals who have come along that didn't have that breadth of experience," said the former top official under President George W. Bush.

The job is president. Who, Mr Powell, has had less experience than BHO? Let's see.

• George W Bush: Governor prior to running
• Bill Clinton: Governor prior to running
• George HW Bush: Vice President prior to running
• Ronald Reagan: Governor prior to running
• Jimmy Carter: Governor prior to running
• Gerald Ford: never elected
• Richard Nixon: Vice President prior to running
• Lyndon Johnson: Vice President prior to running
• JFK: War hero with 14 years congressional experience prior to running
• Ike: Supreme Allied Commander of biggest war ever
• Truman: Ah hah! Here's the closest parallel!

You have to go back to 1944 to find someone as unqualified as BHO for the office, and he didnt run for it then! He ran as VP and came to power through the death of Roosevelt.

Obama has the thinnest resume of any Presidential candidate in the last 60 years and probably longer than that.

[Wallace T.]

You would have to go back to Abraham Lincoln to find someone entering the Presidency with as little electoral experience as Obama had. But Lincoln at least was a corporate lawyer and had extensive knowledge of commerce, industry, agriculture, and railroads. He was also a quick study and was not afraid to fire ineffective generals, though he dragged his feet with regard to George McClellan. Obama’s non-electoral experience was as a community organizer (left wing agitator) and a law professor (remember the adage that those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach). Obama, like most liberals, is instinctively anti-military. Even Jimmy Carter, a naval veteran and Annapolis graduate, never overcame the anti-military bias.