Is Obama's lack of experience & judgement a concern with you, from someone who wants to be making the command decisions for this country?
Not really. We've seen people with plenty of executive experience come in and not do worth a damn (Bush II and Carter for example), and people with little experience come in and do pretty well (Kennedy comes to mind). I tend to think that the whole experience thing is overblown. I look for A) Someone who has stated firm policy goals that I'm in agreement with, B) Knows what the heck they're talking about and C) has the personality and the collegiality to work with Congress and get it done.
and, Is McCain's age & being a long term legislator, with not a whit of executive experience, a concern with you?
The executive experience, as I mentioned above, isn't something really important to me. It's nice to have, but it's not really an indicator of job performance as POTUS nor do I think that it "qualifies" someone for the job. The age doesn't really bother me either, he's supposedly in sound health and that's enough for me. Anyone elected could die the next day, of a plethora of causes. To focus the attention on McCain because of the age, as a health aspect, is a diversion. The one important part of the age argument is whether or not someone his age is out of touch with America, but frankly I think anyone that gets elected is going to be out of touch with parts of America, from single mothers working two jobs to the union factory worker facing a layoff. Politicians are generally pretty well off from stable backgrounds (I know, there are exceptions, but I'm speaking generally here), I don't find it unfathomable that there would be a disconnect between them and blue collar America. That's one nice thing about Palin, regardless of her views, is that at least she knows how a lot of Americans (we rural ones anyhow) live. She doesn't go hunting as a photo-op or to hobnob, she goes to hunt. And regardless of how much I may dislike some of her views, I respect that and her knowledge of rural issues, which I tend to believe are minimized in comparison to urban ones.
Who "concerns" you the most?
They both do.
Seriously!
As BT mentioned, this is a hold your nose pick any way you look at it. I used to like McCain until he started trying to court the religious right, that kind of put me off of him in a lot of ways. Yes, I understand that he needs them but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. I have high hopes that if he's elected he'll decide to serve one term, and tell that wing of the party where to stuff it. The more that I listen to Obama, the more I'm convinced that he's, as the saying goes, all hat and no cattle. He has policy proposals (and some I like), but he hasn't proposed how to fund them. I've tended to lean toward McCain all along, and Palin didn't do much to influence that as her pluses and minuses (to me) cancel each other out, but I haven't come to a final conclusion and probably won't until the day before I vote.
How about these questions sirs, how would you answer the ones that you've asked me?