The Obama campaign wasted no time to attack Gov. Sarah Palin's experience. This is one issue (among many others) that Obama should really want to avoid. This will open up the debate on his own lack of experience.
From Breitbart:
"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.
"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," he said.
Let's take a quick comparison on Obama's and Palin's experience.
Before Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he was previously a state senator (Illinois) and "community organizer." He has only been in the U.S. Senate for two years, with most of his tenure being taken up by his presidential campaigning. Obama has no legislative accomplishments to speak of. Absolutely nothing!
Palin is pro-life, whereas Obama supported infanticide.
Palin, in contrast, was a city council member, Mayor of Wasilla and was elected Governor of Alaska in 2006. She is the only candidate on any ticket with chief executive experience. In her first year as governor of Alaska, Palin raised taxes on the oil industry, pushed through ethics legislation amid a burgeoning corruption investigation of Alaska lawmakers, bucked her party’s old guard and ordered her administration to seek fewer congressional earmarks after Alaska’s “bridge to nowhere” became a national symbol of pork-barrel spending. She enjoys an approval rating of 80% in Alaska for her work.
Additionally, as governor, Palin is commander-in-chief over the National Guard. Obama has no experience even remotely related to that.
I'd say she is much more qualified to be vice-president (or president) than is Barack Obama. The best advice Obama's advisors can give him when the question of experience comes up would be, "Don't go there!" He'd only be undermining his own case to be president.
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Two quick observation.
First, the democrats say that this election is about understanding people in small town america. Yet their criticism of Palin is that she was the Mayor of a small town and this counts as 0 experience. So why do they disparage small town Americans as unqualified?
Second, it is interesting to watch as the media savages another women as it throws Palin under the buss as a VP candidate while it celebrates a man with equal or less experience as a qualified presidential candidate
An absolutely brilliant choice IMHO.
Don't forget, Obama's published two autobiographies already. So he's got a lot of experience... tooting his own horn. He's also shown himself to be a very experienced liar. So give the poor guy a break.
It is interesting to note that Obama slightly rebuked his own campaign's attack on Palin, calling it "hair-trigger."
Heh, like when he almost said the word "experience" when criticizing Clarence Thomas for "not having enough exp..." and then quickly changed the end of his sentence. But heck, not just anybody can be a community organizer.
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