Jay Ambrose: Mere inexperience isn’t Obama’s biggest issue

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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has gone on the offensive on the issue of his inexperience, and I’ll happily walk with him at least halfway down that path. It’s not inexperience that’s his problem so much as naiveté and seeming immaturity.

You don’t need to have put in decades in the Senate or to have served as a governor or as mayor of a major city, after all, to know better than to say, “I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance involving civilians.”

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