Dr. Thomas Sowell, as an aside in his latest column, makes a point identical to one of mine in my piece on the Millenial Generation. Of course, it always sounds better coming from Dr. Sowell! Nevertheless, the point remains most valid. Why does Barack Obama have such strong support from young people? The same reason applies to why the authors of the book “Millenial Makeover” claim that the Millenials are liberal by a 2:1 margin: young is another name for inexperience, and the thrust of my previous piece was that Millenials’ alleged liberalism can be self-correcting over time with real-world experience.

On that note, it is worth encouraging all who are willing to listen not to underestimate the value of experience and the good judgment that eventually comes with it. Those on the left are apt to carp at those of us on the right because we admonish Obama for his questionable associations, first with the whacko pastor Jeremiah Wright, later with the controversial (dare I say ‘white-hating’?) priest Michael Pfleger, and now we have found out he is friends with the leader of The Weathermen terrorists, a far-far-far left radical group that actually did kill innocent people. Lest any liberals try to play the ‘guilt-by-association’ card, this much is worth noting.

Electing somebody to the office of president is like drafting a quarterback. Alright, so it is not entirely like picking a QB for one’s team, but there are enough similarities to get this point across. Why do some NFL quarterbacks excel at their position, while others struggle? The one trait that all successful QBs in the pros (the Manning Brothers, Brady, Brees, Hasselbeck, etc.) have is the ability to make good decisions. In other words, it all comes down to judgment. Quarterbacks who have struggled at that level (Daunte Culpepper comes to mind)have shown a profound lack of good judgment.

Back to Obama; as trite as it is to say, a man is known by the company he keeps. The people with whom we choose to closely associate reflect what kind of judgment we have. Rev. Wright has been the leading male figure in Obama’s life for two decades, and Obama kicked off his state senate campaign in the mid-‘90s in the home of William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn. As Hugh Hewitt reminds us, this shows that Obama is a man of poor judgment, hence unfit to be President of the United States on this basis alone, forget the fact that he is the most hard-left candidate ever to run for the Oval Office.