Experience, or lack thereof, has been bandied about during this campaign to the extent it is seen as a bridge to the presidency without much in the way of supporting trestles and beams. Sen. Barack Obama has been portrayed as woefully inexperienced by his own party candidates at least as persistently as by the opposition. To ameliorate this perceived deficiency, he added an elder statesman, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, as his running mate to shore up his foreign policy credentials.
Palin may be most experienced candidate
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 | 10:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 2:40 p.m. CST, Monday, February 2, 2009
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