Flip-Flop: The “Liberal” Media and Conservative Hypocrisy

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All throughout the campaign, Barack Obama never stopped playing defense on the issue of experience. According to the McCain campaign, Obama lacked the experience, he hadn’t been tested, he was nothing more than a celebrity, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Now that he has been elected by a sweeping electoral majority, he is being tarred and feathered by the right wing and the media for hiring too much experience in his administration.

 

I can’t watch the news for 15 minutes without hearing that “many” believe that the number of Clinton Administration veterans that he is bringing in to his cabinet is worrisome. Apparently, there is a growing majority of Americans who fear that this influx of Clintonites makes them doubt Obama’s promise of change. Wasn’t McCain’s central argument that he actually had the experience to bring about change?

 

How does Obama picking people who served eight years ago when the state of our country was improving mean that he can’t change anything? Barack Obama has offered us the leadership to create change while people like Eric Holder, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Richardson have the hands-on experience to help him do what we need him to do.

 

They claim that change and experience are mutually exclusive, and that is just stupid. But, unsurprisingly enough, they have managed a way to find the hypocritical position on the change v. experience spectrum, and they have embraced it. Every Republican and his mother are going on TV to talk about broken promises and false change until they are blue in the face, but then that one, special name comes up. Robert Gates.

 

Robert Gates has been Secretary of Defense even since Secretary Rumsfeld resigned in 2006. he is a Republican but is widely respected on both sides of the aisle. He is qualified and I support the idea of keeping him as Defense Secretary. And so does everyone who hates the Clinton vets in the White House! People who have been in the private sector for eight years cannot represent real change, but when Obama thinks about actually not changing the man in the Pentagon, he is “reaching across the aisle”.

 

First, he doesn’t have the experience, only the change, and then he has too much experience to have any change. I can’t believe it’s not on SNL yet.

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