So with Sarah Palin, out goes the whole inexperienced talk?

MonsterOfTheMidway

How can anyone attack Obama for being inexperienced when Palin is a first term governor with most political experience coming from her stint on city council and mayor of WASILLA that began in '92?

CorporateWhore

At least she's the VP nominee and not the Prez.

Obama's got less experience than Palin.

And she knows how to fire a weapon.

jeffbr

MonsterOfTheMidway wrote:

How can anyone attack Obama for being inexperienced when Palin is a first term governor with most political experience coming from her stint on city council and mayor of WASILLA that began in '92?

Yup. And from the other side with the Biden pick out goes all of the "old" talk. And out goes the Washington insider talk.

Brain of J.Lo

MonsterOfTheMidway wrote:

How can anyone attack Obama for being inexperienced when Palin is a first term governor with most political experience coming from her stint on city council and mayor of WASILLA that began in '92?

Yeah, it's a shame. But, at least the right-wingers have that whole "Obama is the Anti-Christ" argument to fall back on.

MonsterOfTheMidway

CorporateWhore wrote:

At least she's the VP nominee and not the Prez.

Obama's got less experience than Palin.

And she knows how to fire a weapon.

Less experience? Are you serious? At least Obama was a US Senator and not a mayor of a town I've never even heard of where there are probably more Reindeer than people.

Solat13

MonsterOfTheMidway wrote:

How can anyone attack Obama for being inexperienced when Palin is a first term governor with most political experience coming from her stint on city council and mayor of WASILLA that began in '92?

The same way Obama attacked McCain's judgment when his VP voted against the Gulf War when Iraq attacked Kuwait. Then voted for the Iraq invasion. And then voted to cut the soldier's funding.

So does Biden think our attack of Iraq was more justified in 2003 than in 1991?

How come Obama hasn't questioned Biden's judgment?

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

hipocracy abounds!

CorporateWhore

MonsterOfTheMidway wrote:

Less experience? Are you serious? At least Obama was a US Senator and not a mayor of a town I've never even heard of where there are probably more Reindeer than people.

She was Gov of Alaska. Obama was a community organizer.

Oh and he's black! Whoopdee doo

MonsterOfTheMidway

CorporateWhore wrote:

She was Gov of Alaska. Obama was a community organizer.

Oh and he's black! Whoopdee doo

What the fuck does that mean? She was elected to the govenor of Alaska in 2006! She is still serving her term.

What is your problem? Why do you bring up race? There was no reason for that. You just made your argument and yourself look completely uneducated.

norm

CorporateWhore wrote:

And she knows how to fire a weapon.

you're sportin' wood, ain't ya cw?

yoke

CorporateWhore wrote:

She was Gov of Alaska. Obama was a community organizer.

Oh and he's black! Whoopdee doo

don't forget he is for Hope and Change

CorporateWhore

MonsterOfTheMidway wrote:

Why do you bring up race? There was no reason for that. You just made your argument and yourself look completely uneducated.

Race is what Obama's campaign is about. I guess you're saying his entire campaign is uneducated.

MonsterOfTheMidway

CorporateWhore wrote:

Race is what Obama's campaign is about. I guess you're saying his entire campaign is uneducated.

Please explain.

CorporateWhore

This was a brilliant strategy by McCain. Obama's campaign has already stated that she is inexperienced, and every time they do that, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

It's so ridiculously stupid for Obama to accuse the VP of the other side of being inexperienced. And every time he does it, McCain will retort:

Obama. Junior senator for 2 years. Presidential candidate.

Palin. Governor of the largest state in US for 2 years. Vice[/] presidential candidate.



If anything, Biden should be the prez candidate and Obama should be the VP. Obama is completely unqualified to be president - the only foreign policy experience he's got is a speech he gave in 2002.

MonsterOfTheMidway

CorporateWhore wrote:

This was a brilliant strategy by McCain. Obama's campaign has already stated that she is inexperienced, and every time they do that, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

It's so ridiculously stupid for Obama to accuse the VP of the other side of being inexperienced. And every time he does it, McCain will retort:

Obama. Junior senator for 2 years. Presidential candidate.

Palin. Governor of the largest state in US for 2 years. Vice[/] presidential candidate.



If anything, Biden should be the prez candidate and Obama should be the VP. Obama is completely unqualified to be president - the only foreign policy experience he's got is a speech he gave in 2002.

So how is Obama's campaign all about race?

And largest state? In terms of geographic size, yes, population, no.

puremagic

CorporateWhore wrote:

At least she's the VP nominee and not the Prez.

Obama's got less experience than Palin.

And she knows how to fire a weapon.

Why let a Polar bear drown when you can just shoot it.

digster

CorporateWhore wrote:

This was a brilliant strategy by McCain. Obama's campaign has already stated that she is inexperienced, and every time they do that, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

It's so ridiculously stupid for Obama to accuse the VP of the other side of being inexperienced. And every time he does it, McCain will retort:

Obama. Junior senator for 2 years. Presidential candidate.

Palin. Governor of the largest state in US for 2 years. Vice[/] presidential candidate.



If anything, Biden should be the prez candidate and Obama should be the VP. Obama is completely unqualified to be president - the only foreign policy experience he's got is a speech he gave in 2002.

You're doing nothing more than re-iterating talking points. Everytime McCain brings up Obama's lack of experience (which is McCain's chief criticism against Obama, and about the only one has been successful with so far), Obama can easily retort "Senator McCain seems to care so little about the experience he speaks about so much that he put a nominee with less experience than I a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the United States."

Obama's not running on experience. McCain is, and his VP nominee is bursting that bubble big time.

jhinkle1114

digster wrote:

Obama's not running on experience. McCain is, and his VP nominee is bursting that bubble big time.

Exactly. This pick really hurts him on the one area his campaign had the edge.

How much it will hurt is hard to say, as in the end of the day for the people who care about experience McCain still has much more than Obama.

So it's just a matter of how many people will consider the completely inexperienced VP who's a 72 year-old man's heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

know1

I see the point of that argument, but after all she's the VP choice and not the president.

(spoken as someone not voting for either candidate)

digster

know1 wrote:

I see the point of that argument, but after all she's the VP choice and not the president.

(spoken as someone not voting for either candidate)

I dont see how that makes much of a difference; I mean, what will McCain say if criticized about his VP's lack of experience. "It's not really important, because she probably won't be president" Nobody's voting for Obama due to his extensive Washington experience, but that is the sole reason we should be voting for McCain; his most important campaign decision undermined that notion significantly.

jhinkle1114

know1 wrote:

I see the point of that argument, but after all she's the VP choice and not the president.

(spoken as someone not voting for either candidate)

It won't matter much for people who are firmly behind McCain or Obama, they don't need to weight the VP.

But for people truly on the fence, the swing voters, they may factor it in.

Where it hurts the general campaign is that McCain can't continue attacking Obama on experience (the one part of his campaign that was working) as the Obama camp can simply reply that obviously it doesn't matter that much since McCain choose someone even less experienced to be the heart beat of a 72 year old man away from the oval office.