Palin has more FAR experience than Obama (voting, interviews, liberals)
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how come no great, well-though-out response from the "hope and change" crowd. (because there is none)
In my opinion, a Columbia undergraduate degree coupled with a Harvard Law degree (not to mention president of the Harvard Law Review) trumps any experience one could gain as a local politician in Alaska without even talking about what they did. Even though she was governor, it is still only local experience. As for executive experience, I look at it like this. Everyone is demanding Obama have Boeing or Nokia type executive experience. And that is fine. But to say Palin has executive experience? It is true, but it is very fair to question the quality of experience. So let's take a look at where they've been.
Now let's look at local leadership. Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator for 8 years. Illinois is a state of about 10 or 11 million people. During this time, Palin was a mayor for a town of about 7,000 people. Before this, she was a member of the city council.
After Obama was senator at the state level, he moved on to the U.S. senate in 2004. Two years after Obama became a senator, Palin became governor of Alaska.
Now if we want to look back before Obama/Senate Palin/Mayor, Obama was an attorney with a law degree from Harvard. Palin was a sports anchor and helped to run a fishing company.
Therefore, I don't see the argument. It's apples and oranges.
By the way, I'm not an Obamabot. I am a Republican who is disgusted by the GOP's campaign thus far and disappointed by the pick of Palin. Why you are not also is beyond me.
no I'm asking you to think for once, he's an empty suit and you've all been seduced by the MSM. Nobody yet has answered my questions.
Yes, I did answer your questions. I'm trying to keep this as civil as possible, but I want to be clear. I haven't been seduced by the MSM. I actually do research into candidates and I consider their positions and potential policy actions. Obama was not my first choice. McCain would have been acceptable if he was McCain 2000. He's not. I don't think he's a bad person, and I don't think he'd be a bad President. I like Sarah Palin. I disagree with her on just about every issue, but I think she's a tough political campaigner, and I applaud how far she has taken her career. I don't think she has the breadth of vision that the President of the United States needs. Her executive experience may exceed all the other candidates, but it isn't how much experience she has but rather how that experience will inform her actions if she were to end up in the oval office that's important. She may know hockey moms and Joe six-packs, she may understand what it's like to sit around the kitchen table, struggling to figure out how to pay the bills. That's just one aspect of America. For her to call it pro-America carries with it the caveat that there is an anti-America out there. Well, the people who protest the war, they aren't anti-America. The people who argue over religion in schools, who exchange angry e-mails over abortion, who take to task American foreign policy for contributing to terrorism, who take to task American domestic policy for its failures. These people aren't anti-American. They are Americans. And the next President has to embrace the good and the bad, and unfortunately much that he's going to deal with is bad. So I'm going to vote for Obama, who I think with his multi-cultural background and his educational focus on the American Constitution, who is willing to sit down with America's enemies as well as her friends, and find common ground, is the person best suited to face the enormous challenges ahead. I respect that you see this differently. But the people who support Obama are not mindless, or unthinking, or less informed than you. They have a different perspective. It's a perspective that deserves a voice, that deserves a chance to be explained and understood, every bit as much as your perspective.
She has more experience at mayoring a small town and governing a sparsely populated state. She has no experience with national and international issues, or with reading and understanding the constitution and the bill of rights, or with understanding economics, or . . .
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