RONALD REAGAN: AN INEXPERIENCED "CELEBRITY" WHO HAD NO MILITARY BACKGROUND

By listening to the right-wing pundits and McCain advisers, it seems clear that McCain plans to attack Barack Obama as a candidate who's "Not Ready to Lead". With this strategy, Republicans hope to ride McCain's 26 years of political experience into the White House. However this idea of seasoning a Presidential Candidate over the better part of three decades hasn't always been the RNC way.

In fact, in 1980, it was Ronald Reagan's own political inexperience that Jimmy Carter tried to exploit. Reagan only political experience was an eight-year term as Governor of California prior to being elected President. But he brought forth a message of change to a country that had suffered some great economic challenges during Carter's Administration. His most devastating blow to the Carter Campaign may well have been his closing statement in the 1980 debate when he said:

"Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to whom you will vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have. This country doesn't have to be in the shape that it is in."

This statement could be echoed twice as loud today in the fact that we've endured EIGHT YEARS of Republican failed policies. John McCain, who once argued against Bush's tax cuts, has now fallen in line with the disastrous policy. McCain, who talks about cutting government spending, has a plan that will amass a FIVE TRILLION dollar deficit, while REDUCING services?! And while America's two wars are bleeding us of money, troops, and military equipment, McCain continues to saber rattle against Iran and Russia. Oh did I mention that McCain has voted with Bush's policies 95% of the time? Even John's often played "P.O.W. Card" will have a hard time deflecting that one.

Barack Obama is a highly educated individual who has eight years of experience as a State Senator in Illinois, and four more as a United States Senator. Furthermore, history has shown that political experience does not automatically transfer into a successful Presidency.

Watch this video and notice the similarities between Obama's 2008 campaign, and Reagan's 1980 campaign for "change". Is there any doubt that McCain's camp would label Reagan a "celebrity" if the faced him in an election?