There has been much speculation on Obama’s qualifications to occupy the White House.
Some people say that he is youthful and “Kennedy-esque”. These are the people that are tired of the current president and want the change that Obama has been espousing.
On the other side, there are people that believe that Obama simply lacks the experience needed to be president. They would say that he hasn’t done anything. He has no foreign policy experience, and his experience here at home is basically that he was a local figure helping out his fellow citizens in Chicago.
Apparently, Obama agrees with the second group of people. He doesn’t even believe that he has what it takes to be the agent of change.
Obama Will Not Run in 2008
Calling it as “a silly question,” Sen.-elect Barack Obama (D-IL) pledged “he would resist any overtures to run for president or vice president before the end of his six-year term as a U.S. senator,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Said Obama: “I was elected yesterday. I have never set foot in the U.S. Senate. I’ve never worked in Washington. And the notion that somehow I’m immediately going to start running for higher office just doesn’t make sense.” November 4, 2004
Just 3 1/2 short years ago, he was saying he “never set foot in the U.S. Senate”, and he “never worked in Washington”. And now, after 3 years in the Senate he is supposed to be the man capable of putting an end to the partisan bickering in Washington and bring what he calls needed “change”.
