In the end, it's not Bush's purported lack of experience that caused his terrible presidency. It's his lack of intellectual curiosity, as noted by many of those who have worked with him. Richard Clarke, the former Counterterrorism chief from Reagan through W's first term said in 'Against All Enemies', "...(Bush) looked for the simple solution, the bumper sticker description of the problem. ...The problem was that many of the important issues, like terrorism, like Iraq, were laced with important subtlety and nuance. ...Bush wanted to get to the bottom line and move on." That's simple-minded thinking has nothing to do with experience. It has everything to do with wanting to find the easy way out of complex problems. Nothing Obama has said or done has given any indication that's what he's looking for. Another problem with Bush and his administration is their arrogance and contempt for expert analysis on important issues and decisions. They simply think they know best. The best example is the run-up to the Iraq war when important dissents from CIA, State Department, Energy Department, and other intelligence analysts were omitted from intelligence reports submitted to Congress and the American public because the Bush administration thought they knew better than military, intelligence, and science experts. They wanted to go to war and they were bent on making sure that no information that damaged their case got out. These dissents turned out to be correct (CIA analyst dissents on the bogus documents that said Iraq tried to purchase uranium from Niger, alunimum tubes that were indeed not usable for nuclear weapons as Energy Department scientists tried to tell the Bush regime, the unreliable biological weapons testimony, given under Egyptian torture, of a former Iraqi scientist, etc). This also accounts for part of the problems with Katrina management, the failure of No Child Left Behind and numerous other issues. The failure of the Bush administration has nothing to do with inexperience. Bush had been governor of Texas for 7 years and his highest ranking Cabinet members had all served in high-ranking positions in previous administrations. The failure came because a group of power-hungry, arrogant neocons decided they knew better than military, science, intelligence and numerous other experts on nearly every policy and issue; and they blatantly rejected any truth, knowledge, or fact that contradicted their narrow, often faulty views on complex issues. Obama has given no evidence to show he or his administration would follow this pattern. He is clearly more intelligent and informed than Bush and has shown that he's willing to work with experts to come up with sensible, achievable policy goals. To compare the two is off the mark.