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She ran a state that's completely out of touch with the rest of the country and was mayor of a town a drunk moose could run. Obama is a lawyer who went to Columbia and Yale.
If you had to choose a CEO for a huge company, would you choose Palin or Obama? I think the choice is pretty obvious.
And being a lawyer makes you qualified to run a business/a country how? At least Palin had to deal with a budget and problem solving.
She ran a state that's completely out of touch with the rest of the country and was mayor of a town a drunk moose could run. Obama is a lawyer who went to Columbia and Yale.
If you had to choose a CEO for a huge company, would you choose Palin or Obama? I think the choice is pretty obvious.
I wouldn't choose either: Obama has a law degree and did nothing but serve as a community leader: SArah ran a city and a state but, yes they are small. She is as qualified as he, neither are at the top of the list.
I wouldn't choose either: Obama has a law degree and did nothing but serve as a community leader: SArah ran a city and a state but, yes they are small. She is as qualified as he, neither are at the top of the list.
Nita
Obama also practiced law and taught law. He was a state senator and a US senator. I don't know how much experience Sarah had in budgeting per se, either as mayor of Wasilla (I'm guessing very little in that case) or gov. of AK. Probably more as gov, but she certainly had a budget committee, all she could do was make recommendations, and she did only serve for 18 months.
Obama also practiced law and taught law. He was a state senator and a US senator. I don't know how much experience Sarah had in budgeting per se, either as mayor of Wasilla (I'm guessing very little in that case) or gov. of AK. Probably more as gov, but she certainly had a budget committee, all she could do was make recommendations, and she did only serve for 18 months.
you are right about the budget experience I am sure, this would certainly hold true with Obama as well. Yes, he was a state senator, but as for law, he spent more time as a community organizer or representing groups like ACORN, whether in legal matters or what ever. His time of practicing law was very limited and certainly the number of years he spent as US Senator was nil.
you are right about the budget experience I am sure, this would certainly hold true with Obama as well. Yes, he was a state senator, but as for law, he spent more time as a community organizer or representing groups like ACORN, whether in legal matters or what ever. His time of practicing law was very limited and certainly the number of years he spent as US Senator was nil.
Nita
He served as US sen. from Ill. for two years. Like Sarah, he spent a lot of that time campainging. This is what Wiki says about his career in pvt practice:
In 1993 he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 13-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004
11 years
Here's what it says about his community organizer days:
After four years in New York City, Obama was hired in Chicago as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side. He worked there as a community organizer from June 1985 to May 1988
3 years
State Senator: State Senator: 1997–2004
7 years
There is a lot of misinformation 'out there' about Obama's career.
She ran a state that's completely out of touch with the rest of the country and was mayor of a town a drunk moose could run. Obama is a lawyer who went to Columbia and Yale.
If you had to choose a CEO for a huge company, would you choose Palin or Obama? I think the choice is pretty obvious.
Why do you think a state and a town don't have their share of problems like any other state and town. They have budgets to work out, public employees, natural disasters, roads to maintain, unions, education, poor people, dealing with federal mandates, attracting businesses, taxes, energy, etc. Just because Palin has to deal with different industry problems from say NY or Nebraska doesn't mean she hasn't had to deal with issues. This, unlike a Senator or Congressman, who was a lawyer or a consultant or a lobbyist or a professor before they ran for President. Being a Senator or Congressman doesn't give you the experience to implement the laws they vote on unless they had prior governing or business or organizational managerial experience before they took office.
Who would you rather have as CEO? In 2008, it would have been Palin. Obama is getting his managerial experience now so I might have a different answer 5 years from now.
Sarah left Wasilla in way more debt than it had when she assumed office. She didn't fix anything. She also didn't do anything; she had a city manager to run the day to day operations. She was a figurehead.
AK is lapping from the govt. and oil company troughs.
You are, of course, making an attempt at humor, right?
He must have mistaken Blago for Obama... it happens to me all the time
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