Saturday, September 13, 2008

What's Experience Got To Do With It?

Superstar songstress Tina Turner asked the question, "What's Love Got to Do With It," and throughout this presidential campaign we keep hearing a similar question concerning leadership experience. What's experience got to do with it or in Senator Obama and Governor Palin's case, what does the lack of experience got to do with it?

Critical thinkers, think about it; we have had so called experience in the White House now for eight years and I don't see where it (experience) has gotten us much. I cannot do justice to the George W. Bush resumes as the following websites do, so I will just share them within this blog and allow you to go to them and check them out yourself. They are as follows: (Please be sure to take a look; you'll get the point.)

www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/04/23_resume.html

www.snopes.com/politics/bush/resume.asp

www.cronus.com/bushresume

www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=6494

I will end this blog with the lyrics from You Haven't Done Nothin' written by none other than the maestro Stevie Wonder. I'm sure you'll agree that after reading this edition of THE CRITICAL THINKER, that experience does not mean a whole hill of beans. Ask yourself, can we get any worse with little to no experience than what we have gotten with experience? In short, given what we have had WITH EXPERIENCE, it really is a non-issue. Enjoy vintage Stevie Wonder sans the Jackson 5 doo wops.

We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
cause if you really want to hear our views You haven't done nothing!
It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else
And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothing!
We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when mislead who knows a persons mind
Can turn as cold as ice
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothing!
Thinking Critically once again,
Marc