Senator Obama is planning to visit the Mid-East as a means of showing he has enough expertise in International Affairs to be President. This will be his first trip in a donkey’s age –how fitting for a Democrat!– and also as a part of a Congressional expedition.

This certainly serves him well. He will claim to understand the Mid-East, after a whirlwind tour. And, he will have the taxpayers pay for the trip because he is going as “our” representative.

Whoa!

First, many of us would love to have taxpayers pay for our trips, too! And, to have it count toward Presidential aspirations has to be the penultimate power play.

Secondly, what makes anyone believe that such a trip will suddenly make Senator Obama an expert? True expertise can only come through long experience, such as Senator McCain has learned through the years.

It’s ironic that Democrats believe that one trip will make the Democratic nominee an expert on foreign affairs. After all, how many Americans have visited other states or countries? Few of us would then claim to be experts on those areas.

The basic problem with the Democrats’ nominee is that he is too young and too inexperienced to be President of the United States. His most obvious asset is his voice. Like Charleton Heston or James Earl Jones, he can “play” President very well. But, “talk” is cheap. The real question remains –is he qualified?

Based solely on the fact that he is ONLY a first term senator and one who has served minimal time in that job, he is obviously not qualified to handle the reins of the largest, most influential country in the world. Although the Democrats will trumnpet this Mid-East trip as filling in the blanks for their nominee, he will Not be the new and improved Senator Obama! He remains the old, liberal, inexperienced orator who wants to be President!