During a recent conversation with a friend – who also is an active supporter of Barack Hussein Obama – the subject came up of Obama’s lack of any substantive leadership-experience – executive or otherwise. As expected, the supporter defended Obama’s lack of experience by pointing to “experienced world leaders” whom she believed had failed so miserably as heads-of-state that they had come to serve as examples of why experience and longevity don’t really matter, and why freshness and ambition should.