VIDEO ADDED: Experience schmexperience

By GottaLaff

UPDATE: Obama has issued a condemnation of the attack. As soon as I can find the text, I'll post.
UPDATE 2:

President-elect Barack Obama this afternoon strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying they show the need for the kind of international cooperation he promised as a candidate. "President-Elect Obama strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks,” said Brooke Anderson, his chief national security spokesperson.

Barack Obama's not even president yet, but that doesn't stop MSNBC's Chris Jansing from wondering out loud if he's got enough experience to handle a crisis. This was followed by a discussion with her guests about whether McCain might have won had the Mumbai terrorist attacks had happened prior to the election.

Maybe she should be questioning how our current president is currently responding, and has failed to respond in the past, as in: to briefings warning him of one very big fat enormous major attack on our own soil on September 11, 2001.

Maybe she should be asking about the root causes of violence like this, and how to prevent future attacks. Maybe she should be trying to instill confidence, or at the very least remain neutral, rather than projecting her own apprehension and apparent biases on to her viewers.

Obama won, Chris. Deal with it. And just by the way, you just proved that it's good judgment, not necessarily experience, that counts.