Experience Matters... In a Bad Way

“Sure, Obama is the superior candidate who has the ability to lead and unite this country, but he just doesn’t have the experience.” –Irrational Hillary supporter

Lately there has been quite the ruckus regarding Obama and his level of experience in Washington. Apparently, Americans consider it “experience” when you happen to sleep under the same roof as the president. Had it not been for Hillary’s eight years as First Lady, Obama would be considered more experienced. She only served seven years as a senator while Obama was a state legislator for seven years and three in the senate. Let’s put this debacle aside for a moment and ask whether experience is necessary to begin with.

In general, someone experienced can be more over-confident and careless than their inexperienced counterpart. Experienced people might only have an advantage over operations they have repeated many times and not necessarily better at their job. These speculations are a few possible arguments for why an experienced person might not have the upper hand in succeeding.

Assuming that none of these are the case, I would still prefer the candidate with less experience in Washington.

Unlike most professions, working in the White House for many years does not imply success or quality work. It is hard for a bad dentist to continue being a dentist for 20 years – he would be sued to bankruptcy before his first year. Government officials have it easy, just don’t get your dick sucked by someone other than your wife and you have a free ride until your term ends. You can even illegally send your country to war killing more than a million innocent people and keep your day job.

Citizens don’t care enough to monitor their politicians’ behaviors and nor do they bother to educate themselves before voting. All the politician needs to do is pummel their face with Botox and make-up every couple years and appeal to people’s primitive emotions. The more experience they have, the better they are at looking pretty.

Where do experienced politicians get their money for campaigning in their 20 year run? Another thing experience in the White House implies is corruption. Big corporations grow fond of power hungry politicians and make sure they stay in the game. The government likes to have and obedient citizenry; the same logic applies to why the rich want an obedient government.

Just take a look at Bush and his whopping 14 years of experience. I’d rather have my dead pet hamster run the country.