Posted on 09/03/2008 8:08:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SOOOO you think organizing neighborhoods is better or “more” experience than running a city or a state?
You can’t be serious
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That's Obama. He preened enough, ran his mouth enough, and had the right color skin, so the liberal Harvard law students made him editor of the law journal. He then failed to publish a damn thing while holding that position.
He spent several years hanging around Chicago building his “street cred” by joining a black power church and running his yap about how great he was. He taught law part time, and otherwise was a (ahem) community activist, meaning he yakked his way onto various “community” organizations designed to dole out cash to various politically connected outfits.
After a few years of doing this, he won a state senate seat by using his connections to bounce his rivals off the ballot. He did nothing of note in his position, other than vote the party line and vote present the rest of the time.
He won a U.S. Senate seat with the help of the corrupt Dem machine, which used a scandal to disqualify his most serious rival. He then won in a cakewalk over a weak Alan Keyes. As a Senator, he hasn't even convened the minor subcommittee he was given for a single hearing. He's pushed through no legislation of note. He's just voted liberal, or not shown up, the latter being preferable.
BO was not elected by his peers at Harvard. They staryed an affirmative action program to insure that minorities became editors. He published nothing. Big Middle East money got him into Harvard Law. He truly is an affirmative action baby.
2 of which he spent campaigning for President. None of which he spent authoring or shepherding any major legislation.
Before that he was in the state Senate in Illinois for eight years.
Where he voted "present" much of the time rather than legislating. And where every bill he "co-authored" was handed to him at the last minute by the President of the IL Senate, his mentor.
And his mentor admits this, as if it were a good thing.
He was Editor in Chief of Harvard Law Review, a very prestigious position and I understand was elected by his peers.
Embarrassingly, he never got around to authoring any significant legal articles in that prestigious position. So basically, he won a popularity contest at Harvard Law School. His fellow students thought he was a really cool guy.
He has taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago, very desirable knowledge for a President to have.
He was a junior lecturer - not a professor - and got a position as a senior lecturer only after he became a politically connected powerbroker in the IL State Senate.
To give some comparison: the star of the stoner comedy Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle is a visiting professor of sociology at the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania. He has a bachelor's degree in sociology from UCLA - but I'm going to guess that he was invited to be a visiting professor at one of our nation's top-ranked universities over all the thousands of twenty-somethings in the Philadelphia area with sociology degrees for one reason: he is a local celebrity in the Philly area.
Much like the telegenic community organizer Barack Obama was a local celebrity on Chicago's South Side.
I'll also point out the obvious: just because someone claims to be a teacher of Constitutional Law does not mean they have the slightest regard for the Constitution.
But it exceeds Palin by any reasonable measure.
To govern as Chief Executive of the USA, it's good to have experience in governing as an executive.
Obama has no governing experience as an executive at all. Sarah Palin has a few years' worth.
Define "executive experience".....and then measure again.
My gawd man.....put that glass of kool-aid down..and go get your stomach pumped.
Sheesh. You’re right about that one.
Only seventy minutes left!
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May you get the ZOT you so richly deserve.”
My thoughts exactly.
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I’ll let Newt answer you on that one:
—This didn’t sit well with Gingrich who strongly replied (video embedded above):
It’s stronger than Barack Obama’s. I don’t know why you guys walk around saying this baloney. She has a stronger resume than Obama. She’s been a real mayor, he hasn’t. She has been a real governor, he hasn’t. She’s been in charge of the Alaskan National Guard, he hasn’t. She was a whistleblower who defeated an incumbent mayor. He has never once shown that kind of courage. She’s a whistleblower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined $12,000. I’ve never seen Obama do one thing like that. She took on the incumbent governor of her own party and beat him, and then she beat a former Democratic governor in the general election. I don’t know of a single thing Obama’s done except talk and write.
Newt then challenged Allen:
I’d like you to tell me one thing Sen. Obama’s done.
With that, Allen retreated, and said:
Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to leave it there. I’m not going to argue the case. Thanks very much.
“Actually he does, when he was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Law Review”
BWAHAHAHA! I’ve fallen down laughing and I can’t get up.
What a Lib-tard response.
That’s executive experience?
ROFL!!!
Be honest, you work for US Magazine right? How else could you justfy such an ignorant statement.
I can see then why you do it, Troll.
Where are the Viking Kitties when we need them? Still on vacation?
And it speaks to Obama's election record.
In his very first election he ran unopposed because he knocked out the incumbent using a legal technicality.
He ran unopposed in his two subsequent elections.
When he ran for US Senate, the Republican was forced to drop out due to a scandal. Due to his extermely lame last-minute replacement, Obama effectively ran unopposed again.
Everything has been handed to this guy on a silver platter.
I guess Obama may be qualified in a like manner to other past VP candidates. Where I grew up we would say, “Big hat, no cattle” with fellows like him that have no accomplishment at each preliminary level to their rise.
Palin is like TR in his Vice Presidency. A person of action and reform but with modest national clout.
Obama’s most telling non-accomplishment is the 130 Present votes in the State House. No one can imagine Palin in such a fop role.
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