They asked it of Sarah Palin. They skated over it with Barack Obama. We knew all along that Sarah Palin’s experience at the executive level was much greater than Obama. In fact Obama, as he has shown all too painfully – had no executive experience at all.

They’re asking again now of Michelle Bachmann who has even more experience legislatively than Sarah Palin. Bachmann has an uphill climb for sure. The last time a congressman made it to the White House was James Garfield. Nevertheless, this whole “What experience do you have” canard takes on a comical appearance when asked by the press.

Let’s revisit Barack Obama in 2008. Having a very scant experience, just four years as US Senator – he was formally a State Senator – he had next to no voting record, in fact it appears no record at all. In fact he didn’t even have the experience to run for the Senate much less the Presidency.

We’ve seen how that has worked out as Obama flails in the polls, and flails even more trying to work at an economic solution to a problem he mostly created and continues to exasperate. Nevertheless he won and we’re all – literally – the poorer for it.

However, Bachmann’s experience will matter as Karl Rove detailed in a recent interview, and it’s solely because America got burned by Obama.

“I think it is going to matter,” Rove said, not because of Bachmann but because voters will look at President Obama and decide they’re not willing to take a chance on someone without much experience. Obama served just four years in the Senate before being elected as president.”

Of course none of it will matter if Bachmann is elected simply because she’s a woman and the populace might be excited to see that take place. After all a strong argument exists – one of which I believe – that Barack Obama was elected simply because people wanted to see a black man get elected to the White House. Sad that the first example was actually the worst. I really don’t see people responding to Bachmann in that way. But Rove is right that people found out the hard way that it takes more to be president than just a smile and fancy telepromptering speeches.

Obama’s failing because he’s in over his head. He severely over-achieved and we’re paying for it. He’s a clique candidate, a one in a million shot that made it only because – I believe – the choice of John McCain just wasn’t strong enough to break the spell the liberal media put the country under.

Michelle Backmann is too a clique candidate, but with a difference. She does have the experience, at least far more than Barack Obama did. She also has another thing going for her, voter anger and distrust of liberals. That may just be all that she needs. We haven’t seen specific polling on it yet, but as I said before Barack Obama’s failure at being president is also a failure of the liberal agenda on a national level.

Many voters I talk to have expressed outrage at the liberal agenda, now showcased through the Obama administration and are demanding an immediate halt to it. That was the message of the 2010 midterms no matter how much the media tried to hide it.