"Experienced Politicians"

I don’t understand the charge that we can’t have a president who’s an “inexperienced” politician. Why do we want “experienced” politicians anyway? What are they experienced in? Navigating a system to make a fat living off the biggest kickbacks possible while not getting caught and still managing to convince their constituents, "Hey, I'm on your side." These are people who have developed the cynicism and thick skin that allows them to play games with peoples’ lives. Take for example the decision to go to war, or to deny funding for healthcare or schools. This is not something that affects them personally if they’re experienced politicians, because their own healthcare is unaffected, their kids are well out of elementary school and are not members of the class that makes up the majority of the military: lower class kids with no other choice or way for advancement. So why would we want these people making the decisions? Politicians have too many layers separating them from the reality of the lives their decisions affect, and this allows them to play games. Legislation is passed based on who has enough favors to call in or whether it’s part of the party agenda, not on its merits. Money is allocated to the groups who have enough money to lobby for it in the first place. The politicians are the winners in this system, and the average middle to lower class person is the loser.

What would happen if we booted out all these "experienced politicians” and put average people in these positions instead? (The only way to make that happen, incidentally, is publicly funded elections.) I’m sure your average citizen would be appalled at the depth of corruption and indifference. The average citizen would either be or know personally someone affected by bad foreign policy (i.e.- trade policies and war), and the broken healthcare, economic and educational systems. The average citizen would make real efforts to fix these problems, and would not accept that the way business is conducted in Washington cannot be changed.

So Obama is an experienced community leader but an inexperienced politician. How on earth can anyone believe that is a bad thing?