The United States has always been known for the efficiency and competence of its leaders until George Bush. He has shown utmost incompetence and utter arrogance so obviously Bush is an aberration. The Bush years should teach us a lesson. Experience is irrelevant. What matters most are character (honesty and integrity), judgment, intellectual acuity and competence. Obama fits the bill. Hillary's vaunted "experience" will no longer apply to the current circumstances the United States is in. Hillary and McCain both voted for an unnecessary war and both profess to continue Bush's policies in Iraq! Americans must re-think and return to its core principles and values.

It is not fair to say that Hillary is competent. She is not. Not one of her "brilliant" policies can bring back a single human life lost because of her incompetent vote to authorize a preemptive war in Iraq. It was not a matter of her not being able to foretell the future (as she protests), it was a matter of her inability to understand the urgency of the present, and to place facts above political ambition. Now, none of the policies she has so skillfully put together can be realized, because the money needed was spent on the war. A war that was started, in part, because she lacked the character to speak out against it during a politically sensitive time. We can rely on Obama's judgement to make the serious life and death decisions that the commander and chief of out nation must face each day. He is the one who is competent. That is the change our country needs.

The question calls for honesty of your own nation not excuses or comparisons. The verdict: half a loaf good on describing Gonzales and Aznar and no direct blame on Bush for Spain's decisionmaking. BUT no analysis of Spain's present though a patchwork shot at the rest of the West