Stanley Kutler has a good response to the mantra of "experience" on Truthdig.com (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080307_the_folly_of_experience/?ln).
Essentially, it's not "experience" that counts, it's how a person responds to crisis. Lincoln was a manic/depressive with no "experience" yet he saved the Union; Hoover was widely acknowledged as "experienced" yet he couldn't address the Depression; FDR had little more "experience" than Obama yet he defeated fascism.
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