Experience vs. Change

Yes, I know you guys are probably sick of this discussion. We have indeed heard it all before, one too many times. However, I do want to point out some different angles.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's position is that she is tha "Smart Choice" as she has helped guide Bill during for 8 years in the White House and did great things as a Senator. Infact, she keeps repeating her "35 years of experience" as proof of her capabilities. If you do the math Clinton is counting EVERY year since leaving college. Barack could counter that he also has 35 years of experience that truely matter to Democrats: real life experience dealing with racial injustice, bad schools, the struggles of a single mother, working as a labor organizer, work in the Illinois legislature etc...

But the most insightful data on this argument can be found in plain sight: the way they have run their campaigns. It is interesting to note that none of the three remaining presidential candidates have ever run a large organization like a county, a state or even a business. None of them have that background. So, one telling way to predict how they may run the US government is to look at how they have been administering their campaigns which can be considered 'large' organizations since they cover 50 states, raised tens of millions of dollars and pay large bills.

John McCain has made it through a campaign that has had a mass exit of advisers last summer. His campaign went broke three times and finally rescued by a sweet $ 5 million loan from Legg Mason. Since he has started campaigning, McCain has raised $ 60 millions.

Hillary's campaign has faired better, but missed going bankrupt in Feb. She bailed out her campaign with a $ 5 million loan from Bill. She had to replace her campaign manager because of generally bad planning and excessive spending. A telling story is how the Hillary campaign got all their staffers rooms on the Vegas strip during the Nevada Caucuses while most of the Obama people stayed at homes of supporters. As of yesterday, Clinton's campaign has raised $ 178 million so far.

Barack's and his campaign came from nowhere. They had no support from the existing democratic infrastructure around the country like team Billary had. Yet, just in February alone they raised $ 55 million. This is the largest amount of money raised by any candidate to run for the White House ever. His campaign has generally run smoothly and had had no major staff turn over. Again I like to point out that he came from nowhere and nothing, yet the Obama campaign has raised close to $ 200 million so far through grass roots efforts.

The point that I am trying to make here is that when a man can do so much with so little, imagine, just imagine what he can do when he is given much more to start with.