I support him more for his policies, priorities, plans and judgement than his experience.

I have some misgivings about his short elected experience too. But as I said in a different thread, I think people are going to look past this experience problem soon, especially once we get into the debates.

It's obvious that Obama does not have the length of experience that McCain has. Experience is valuable, but what EXACTLY is the value of experience? The value of experience is that it gives you judgement. Experience teaches you about issues, how to react to situations, and helps you make good decisions. Some people have that kind of good judgement with only a little experience, while some people who have a lifetime of experience never develop good judgement. I think Obama has good judgement and a good understanding of the issues despite having fewer years than McCain.

Maybe that's the same kind of thinking McCain used to pick Palin despite her lack of experience --- maybe he thought that she had good judgement, or maybe it was something else. Whatever it was, he thought she had something that made her worthy of being president despite her lack of expereice, although I can't really figure it out. Or maybe McCain has bad judgement despite his many years of expereince and picked her for a bad reason.

As for Obama's experience, I think everyone knows about the basic history: community organizer, Illinois State Senate for 8 years, US Senate for 4 years.

His time in the Illinois State Senate included work on the state Earned Income Tax Credit and expansion of early childhood education.

His time in the US Senate included work with Tom Coburn to allow you to go online and see how and where your tax money is spent. He has worked on ethics reform. He is working with Dick Lugar on nuclear non-proliferation and securing Russian nukes. He is working to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards for cars.

Obama is 26 years younger than McCain, so he doesn't have the same record, but personally, I agree with his platform, and that's why I am going to vote for Obama.

If he can have good command of issues in the debates and show that he has good policies and good judgement, people will come around to that. If not, then he won't win.