A dozen years??!!? Come on, Rusty! You just can't help yourself today. Obama served in the State Senate for 7 years, and now in the US Senate for 4 years. If you don't count Palin's 3 years governing Alaska as 'experience', then you can't reasonably count Obama's 7 years in State Senate.

That leaves only 4 years in US Senate... 2 of which he has been running for President... let's see here... 4... minus 2... leaves 2, mediocre, party-line years.