Posted on 09/26/2008 3:24:39 AM PDT by acsuc99
I wish the same standards were applied to Obama and his fellow gaffe machine, Joe Biden. What exactly makes Palin out of her league?
Actually McCain has a law degree which is generally considered an advanced degree.
Palin is the best that America has to offer?
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Sounds like another case of vagina envy ala Peggy Noonan. She just can't stand the fact that this "rube" is actually the VP candidate.
Wow. Or rather, meow.
Remember last year Parker declared Hillary Clinton “well qualified” to be president. I’ve read whatever she’s written with a grain of salt since then.
I will comfortably assume by making this statement that you do not have an advnaced degree. Of course you are not running for President so that does not matter
An advanced degree in the form of a Masters degree is a much deeper look at a broad field - for instance business, finance, engineering, agriculture. The real focus comes with a PhD - which indeed is far more than a President needs.
However, the level of complexity of the problems currently faced are not to be made simpy via "gut feeling". It helps to understand that problems have many layers.
Education teaches you how to analyze problems. AAn advanced degree will help you focus on particular field, but it also helps with thinking in general.
Simply put, Palin does not strike me as a person who spends as much time thinking as I would want the POTUS to spend.
The degree thing is a proxy for that - the current POTUS doesn't appear to think enough either.
I don't believe that is correct. All the education bios I've seen for McCain only mention that his is a Naval Acad grad. They do not mention any masters or doctorate degrees. I'd be happy to be proven wrong so if you have a link that shows the law school he attended and year please post.
Are Obama and Biden the best America has to offer?
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I agree with you on this. I know a lot of really stupid PhDs. But, common sense and a little bit more what is needed when faced with an extremely complex financial problem. Or multi-layered and ancient foreign policy issues.
The POTUS should have both. Like Mitt.
Roughly half of Congress is made up of lawyers, each of which have an advanced degree. They are indeed wizards at solving problems.
I don't hold that against him as there is no correlation on leadership nor how people do in their careers based on rank in their class, 20 years after graduating.
As you wish... another Mittbot crawling out from his hole to pipe up at negative news. Probably to crawl back in your hole the next time a news cycle is favorable to Palin.
Your faith in advanced degrees is misplaced. Bush 43, Bush 41, and Clinton had advanced degrees. Ronald Reagan had just a bachelors degree from a small midwest college.
Romney would gave been an excellent selection. He was my number one pick, and Palin was my number two pick. But despite my liking of Mitt, I was thrilled when McCain picked Palin. She’s only been governor for two years, so it’s impossible to pick up the knowledge of international and national affairs in that short period of time. Especially since she hasn’t been campaigning for president, like Romney has, since she was elected. What makes her a great candidate is her instincts which are conservative. There’s no way she’d be a high tax-high spender on the economy. She’d keep the military strong. She’d keep her paws off the business of America.
Sorry, you are right. He doesn’t have a law degree.
Still, he is an expert on Foreign Policy.
I am not sure what Palin is an expert on. What she has really focused on to know the different layers of complexity.
As mentioned, I see an advanced degree as a proxy, not a must for the type of deep experience I want the POTUS to have. Palin doesn’t do it for me like Mitt did.
Mitt’s problem is he had the paper credentials, but not the principles to lead.
The Presidency is in the Executive Branch for a reason. Being President is an executive job. You are being paid to manage and make decisions. I have no idea what you mean by "thinking," in terms of the job, but the President and VP are surrounded by "thinkers" who provide them with expert advice and information, e.g., the intelligence community, cabinet officials, etc. The President must have the ability to make decisions based on the best possibile information available. And he/she must have leadership qualities.
Palin's record of executive experience and achievement, inside and outside of government, make her more qualified than Obama and Biden who have never supervised or managed anything larger than a senate staff. And even ahead of McCain's experience in the USN. The fact that Palin is a Washington outsider is a plus for me.
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