Robert L. Terrell Blog

Given his youth and relative inexperience, it is not surprising that Senator Barack Obama is a work in progress. This is a significant source of his infectious appeal to many U.S. citizens, and the impressive number of foreigners who are following the current U.S. presidential contest with the same level of excitement and incredulity as the rest of us. My key point here is that Senator Obama’s youth and inexperience are sources of strength and weakness.

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General Wesley Clark’s recent commentary regarding Republican Presidential candidate John McCain is accurate and entirely appropriate. The truth of the matter is that the General was correct when he asserted that getting shot down in a fighter jet over Vietnam is not sufficient to qualify one to be President of the United Sates. The point to be understood is that the “war hero” status that McCain has shamelessly milked for the past couple decades is, from my perspective, unseemly and inappropriate.

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