A lot of people seem to think that Obama's youth and inexperience are bad things, but I actually think that they're advantages. Washington has a tendancy to indoctrinate US politicians into a crazy, lobbyist-driven groupthink. That's how the ideas of a group like PNAC look like rational notions, instead of the manifest destiny insanity that they are.
The more insulated the next president is from the Washington reality-distortion field (which portrays investment in expensive, high-tech weapons systems as part of a solution for fighting guerilla insurgents, for example), the better.
Basically, I'm saying more time in Washington won't teach you how to govern better. It'll just teach you how to play politics better.
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