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- hiscity, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1HANNITY: I've got to tell you something, she really wowed me and everybody that I know today, and I just gave a speech here in Colorado Springs and people were inspired.
You know, it's interesting, Alan and I know the liberal talking points are out there today talking about the governor and about her experience, and I've got to be honest.
I'll put her experience as a governor, as a reformer, as a tax cutter, as somebody who believes in fiscal responsibility, somebody who's made decisions, you know, against, you know, Barack Obama, you know, with his slogans and the hypnotic trance where he has no legislative accomplishments, a thin resume, and doesn't even view Iran as a serious threat.
I find it amazing that that's the line of attack Democrats are taking.
Your thoughts.
DOBSON: Well, I think the Democrats are going to have a real hard time making a big deal out of her experience. She has had executive experience. Barack Obama has had none. He's had about 140 working days in the Senate, and how in the world they can point to the standard bearer with as little experience as he has had, and then begin to criticize the vice presidential pick?
I don't think that's going to go anywhere.
HANNITY: I don't -- it's certainly not, especially with some of the things that Barack Obama has said, and he's their number one, and has the thinnest resume of anybody that I know that has ever run for president. - hiscity, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1hotair.com/archives/2008/08/30/desperation-from-democrats/
Why would he put a small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?
This is a real laugher. By the same logic, why would the Democrats make a state legislator the actual president? The answer is that Obama is a US Senator of three years experience, and Palin is a governor of 20 months’ experience. Only Barack Obama has spent two of those three years not in the Senate doing his job but running for President. Before starting his bid, he had a grand total of less than 150 days in session in the Senate. Palin, on the other hand, has run her state for more than triple that time.
And let’s remember that Obama is running for the top job, while Palin’s running for VP.
McCain can’t talk about experience any more — he’s shot himself in the foot!
Unfortunately for the critics, this argument doesn’t hold water, either. All four principals are running for the highest executive position in the federal government — indeed, the position in charge of the entire executive branch. How much executive experience does Obama have? None; he’s worked in corporate law, community organizing, and has eleven years as a legislator at various levels. Biden? He’s been a lawyer for three years and a Senator for 35 years, and has no executive experience at any level of government.
McCain at least has executive experience as a squadron commander in the US Navy, but Palin has the actual executive track record that the others lack. She has governed Alaska for 20 months, negotiated a pipeline deal with Canada (which gives her more formal diplomatic experience than either Obama or Biden), was commander-in-chief of Alaska’s National Guard, and so on. Even her more local-level experience is more applicable than Obama’s: she served two terms as mayor, an executive position, cutting taxes and running a small city. Obama served in the state legislature, with no executive responsibilities at - hiscity, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/the-new-moose-on-obamas-b_b_122607.html
My immediate reaction to Palin was dread. I figured that the Republicans no longer needed the "experience" argument against Obama. I worried that perhaps they had the goods on Obama elsewhere on issues such as "character" and "judgment" so that they now could enjoy the luxury of being able to throw one of their core arguments against Obama-- "experience"--under the bus. (When we think about the impact of the Ayers commercial and the Obama campaign's reported poor response to it, there seems to be grounds for this worry.)
But then I thought more and realized that the choice of Palin in a weird way actually reaffirms the Republican's experience argument about Obama.
The Republicans are saying: Hey, if you are shocked with Palin potentially being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office, now you know how we feel about Obama's potential of actually being directly in the Oval Office!
When the Dems attack Palin as only being a Mayor of a small town and the Governor of Alaska for two years, the Republicans happily turn to Obama's resume--which is not something Dems should want to discuss. Let's not descend into bickering over what level of state office is more important than another because that is precisely what the Republicans want us to do!
When Dems mention Palin's running a commercial fishing company, the Republicans point to Obama's "community organizing." Again, this is not what Obama's campaign should be discussing!
Because once the McCain campaign is done arguing all weekend long about how Palin's record and experience is really no different than Obama's, the Republicans will then turn to their real argument: that when rightly measured up against McCain's record and experience, Obama's resume is alarmingly lacking.
Since nobody knows who Palin is, everybody is watching and wondering--just in time for the Republican Convention. Brilliant. Almost as brilliant as the Republican's strategically timed announcement of Palin that completely trumped any coverage of Obama's incredible and historical acceptance speech. Just recognize that every person tuning in, Googling, and paying attention to who Palin is, is another new potential Republican vote. That's called reinvigorating the campaign by setting up renewed interest. And they did it even before their Convention. - hiscity, on 08/30/2008, -1/+1http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/0 ...
30 Aug 2008 12:52 pm
I'm getting a lot of email grief for writing: "There's a not-implausible case to be made that Sarah Palin has more experience than ... Barack Obama!" And maybe rightly so - blog in haste, repent at leisure. At the very least, there's no question that Barack Obama has spent more time preparing for high office than Sarah Palin: He's been prepping himself for a race like this since he first entered politics, in some sense, and he's just endured the rigors of a long Presidential campaign - which forces you, as Ezra rightly notes, to get up to speed on a host of issues that most state-level politicians don't spend very much time thinking about. So what was I thinking when I wrote the line above? Just this: That in terms of actual governance, as opposed to the mix of issue-studying and campaigning that Obama's been immersed in, Palin's resume and Obama's aren't wildly dissimilar. She ran her first race in 1992; he ran his first race in 1997. She was a city councilor for four years, then a mayor, lost a race for statewide office in 2002 then won the governorship in 2006. He was a state senator from Chicago for seven years, lost a House race in 2000, and then won the Illinois Senate race in 2004. The argument for her having more experience, then, would be relatively simple: She's been in government five years longer than Obama, and has twelve years of executive experience to his zero. - hiscity, on 08/31/2008, -1/+1news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/08/29/did-mccain-just-win-the-mom-vote/
Dailykos and other are grousing about her being just an identity politics pick and another Dan Quayle. They are also saying the experience attack is dead. But then they go and use it against her anyway. Heh. But the Dan Quayle template doesn't fit at all. Dan Quayle was a child of privilege and became a lawyer, using family connections to follow the normal political route. Sarah Palin is not a child of privilege and is not following anyone's standard template. - hiscity, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2online.wsj.com/article/SB122004983609584755.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Experience?
For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska's politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection -- despite its campaign risks -- seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders.
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