Posted by
David Andrews on Monday, August 25, 2008 10:30:27 PM
The Democrats will nominate Senator Obama and Senator Biden as their candidates for the White House. Both of these men have no experience in managing or running a company or corporation nor does either one of these men have any military experience. Senator Biden has been a career politician since leaving a law firm and Senator Obama’s only work outside of the political arena has been as a director of a church-based community organization.
The Democratic nominees want to convince the hard working American entrepreneurs that they know what it takes to make the necessary decisions about economic policies even though they have never made a decision to start a business or expand a business or to give pay raises or to hire or fire an employee What they have to offer is to demand these businesses should increase wages for their workers rather than let a market economy determine the wages and mandate that businesses should pay higher taxes to fund social programs for the under-privileged.
What is really bothersome to me, is that neither of the Democratic candidates have any military experience. These individuals have no idea of the sacrifices of the American G.I. Senator Obama wants to be our Commander-in-Chief (CINC). How can an individual who has never managed a business or negotiate foreign policy on a rogue nation going to make a decision to use military power. Can he make a decision to commit human resources for an ultimate sacrifice or make a decision to hunker down within the continental forty-eight and ignore what is happening in the world hoping that it will go away? At what point will the CINC decide that American involvement in the war on terrorism is worth American lives if diplomacy fails? If the use military force is determined, will the CINC have the commitment or resolve to win the war or pull out when things get sticky. This decision should not be left to individuals that have never defended this nation or have never had to make a life and death decision on someone else’s life.
Senator Biden is correct when he made the comment, “The role of the Commander in Chief is not a place to receive on-the-job training,” especially when the lives of our young men and women have to do the dirty work when executing the foreign policy of the United States.
David D. Andrews Sr., SMSgt, USAF (Retired)
Noodle, Texas