Palin's Experience Compared With Obama's
posted by desertpear 09/03/2008 07:56:44 PM EST
I am embarrassed for the Republicans that McCain is no longer a "straight talker," but is rather, once the curtain is pulled away, a shameless liar and opportunist. WEAK SAUCE for someone who is supposedly a "hero" for surviving prison and torture. I don't want to hear any more about people treating Obama as a "Messiah" after watching last night's RNC version of "The Passion of the McChrist." They sure milked that POW experience that McCain never mentions. Oh Fred, so moving. <tears> But Laura? She creeps me out with those wierd cat eyes and simpleton hillbilly god talk. She's the moderator??
Cindy was cute as long as her mouth was closed.
Anyway, on to a topic that infuriates democrats--the claim that Sarah Palin has more experience than Obama. I knew someone would do this comparison, and sure enough, someone on Daily Kos blogged it out by doing a year-by-year comparison of experience.
It starts off like this....
1980 - 1984
Obama: B. A. in political science, specializing in international relations from Columbia University
Palin: Wasilla High School, Captain of the state-champion basketball team. Miss Wasilla, runner-up in Miss Alaska Pageant, also Miss Congeniality!...
1985 - 1990
Obama: moved to Chicago; became a community organizer as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization on Chicago's far South Side. During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization.
Moved to Boston to attend Harvard Law School. Selected as an editor and then elected president of the Harvard Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.
Palin: Bachelor of Science in communications-journalism, minor in political science from the University of Idaho. Brief stint as sports reporter for local Anchorage TV stations; left to join her husband commercial fishing.
And the fun continues from there, including the fact that the Repubs will still say to you with a straight face that she is perfectly qualified to be the President of the United States in a time of war. ROFL
Oh, here it comes...wait for it...
"I am appalled by the Obama campaign’s attempts to belittle Governor Sarah Palin’s experience," said RNC Victory 2008 Chair and senior McCain adviser Carly Fiorina today in a statement. "The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a Mayor and Governor than Barack Obama has made in his life."
For shame; what do facts have to do with anything?
