Are you kidding? I would say that BOTH candidates have a significant amount of experience, just very different. The issue is judgment, efficacy to accomplish what they set out to do, and that which they actually set out to do. It looks to me as though McCain doesn’t set out to do much at all when it comes to homeland security. I don’t expect my commander in chief to have a background in homeland security, but I do expect him to understand how to set HS policy and to articulate his goals. Looks to me as though Obama has set forth a long list of goals and McCain offers a sound bite of just over one minute.

While respective staff members may make their best effort, what is truly worrisome is the reality that neither candidates have a grasp of how to address pending and relevant HS and EM issues.

Moreover, what truly concerns me is the Democratic party’s and maybe even the Republicans’ demeanor towards offering all sorts of promised solutions and services which can only be supported by substantial increased tax revenues and in fact a global economy based on fiat dollars with very little personal or government accountability.

I hear the word “change” and after listening to political “promises” from both sides of the aisle at the local, state and federal side, we still do not have an effective eenrgy policy in place, comprehensive health care coverage for all American citizens and quite obviously a bureaucratic HS and EM lacking in unity and addressing serious and immediate concerns.

The same ‘ol, same ‘ol is apparently all we can expect from those we entrust and who sepend most of their time addressing their own agenda and applauding each other.

There are many who seek our demise and there is little time remaining for us as a nation to utilize our competencies and together address the nuwerous urgent issues before us.

Christopher Tingus
Harwich, MA