if the Dems have their way Obama won’t just be “a heartbeat away from the oval office”, he’ll be IN the oval office ... and he has weaker credentials than Palin! Besides, having served as a Mayor for two terms and as Governor of a State, she has far more “executive” experience than Obama (who has none). Obama’s only “national” experience has been as a Senator for the same length of time ... except that, unlike Palin who has been doing her job as Governor all this time, Obama has been running for President.
Kudos to the campaign for the rapid response.
Also, instead of letting this choice be branded as that of a ‘gambler’, I’d like to see McCain credited with listening to his advisers, then going with his gut.
Oh, I see. So FDR, who served as a gub’nor is fine but she ain’t? OK, fine. What about the sable weasel? His experience consists of, uh, well, oh, like, you know . . .
Read the update at the end...funny how they seem to pick and choose their "scholars".
--edh Just read it. Those guys are pathetic. We are going to see a lot of blatant propaganda disguising itself as news for the next couple of months. (I should say "more than usual") Sarah has them running scared.
David Halberstam’s book, The Best and the Brightest was all about how these so called elite intellectuals screwed up everything.
Those are not scholars, they’re tenured propagandists. They are academic whores.
The MSM loves to talk about Obama’s experiences as Harvard Law Review editor and lecturer on constitutional law. I dont think those are real experiences needed for POTUS, but let’s say they are. In the academic world, the basic tenet is “publish or perish”. Why haven’t seen any of Obama’s academic articles?
That's the only paragraph I needed to read. It immediately disqualified all four "scholors."
Nope. Obama is the clear winner of the "least experienced" category.
I think people need to look at the panic (and it is panic) and realize it for what it is:
Trying to get enough “material” on Palin out into the public domain to feed the Sunday morning shows and all the MSM commentators going into the Convention next week. Doesn’t matter whether the material is true or substantive ... all it needs to do is form the basis for “hard questioning” of the McCain campaign surrogates that are on the shows.
I really hope that the McCain folks understand this and have their varsity players well-briefed and out tomorrow morning. If they’re anything like the McCain spokeman who got shouted down and then shut down by the peon host of GMA weekend this morning on the “special needs child” issue, the McCain folks run the risk of having the news cycle turn on them.
Despite the fact that Ms. Clinton is far older than Governor Palin, she has only served in a legislative body for eight years, with a dismal record of accomplishment. I read through the list of silly, trivial legislation that she has been responsible for; my favorite title was of the ten bills S.2279 through S.2288 in the 107th Congress, all identically named "A bill to reliquidate certain entires of tomato sauce preparation." (Thankfully, none of them were actually passed.) She has been moderately more successful in proposing amendments to bills.
Senator Clinton has no executive experience of any type. She has sat on a large number of boards, and has served as chairwoman for a few. In contrast, Governor Palin has several years of executive experience, and this includes two years governing an area that accounts for 18% of the U.S. total land surface area and has a vast amount of our natural resources.
Mr. Obama and Governor Palin are roughly of the same age, but he has spent most of his adult years as a student, community agitator, and lecturer; he also legislative experience, having spent eight years in the Illinois state senate, and was elected to U.S. Senate in 2006. He also has very little executive experience other than apparent sinecures.
Someone who asks “what does the VP do, exactly” is hardly qualified to run the Senate. (note, that’s the VP’s day-to-day job)
Comparing Palin’s credentials to Obama’s, maybe it is the scholars credentials that need verified.
Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.
Except for that junior Senator from Illinois of course, who is running for PRESIDENT and not VP.
Yawn...
Matthew Dallek , a former speechwriter for Richard A. Gephardt, earned his Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University in 1999.