30Aug2008
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The biggest drawback of the Palin pick is that it complicates the argument that Obama is too inexperienced to be president. At 44, Palin is actually younger than Obama, and she has two years’ less experience in statewide office than he does. On the other hand, she has more executive experience than McCain, Obama and Joe Biden combined, and the Democrats have a rookie at the top of the ticket. Obama spokesman Bill Burton quickly denounced McCain for proposing to put “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” This took a degree of chutzpah, since the Democrats have just spent four days touting Obama’s experience as a “community organizer” as a central qualification to put him no heartbeats away. Even after listening to those speeches, we’re still not sure what a “community organizer” is.
→James Taranto
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Good point. And actually, if you want to get technical about it Palin does not have two years’ less experience than Obama. He only spent about 144 days in the Senate before he took off and started campaigning.
→James Taranto
(via sds)
Good point. And actually, if you want to get technical about it Palin does not have two years’ less experience than Obama. He only spent about 144 days in the Senate before he took off and started campaigning.
