According to a post at Fox News’ Election HQ that quotes Senator Obama, the Senator thinks that running for President qualifies him to be President.
Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years
-Barack Obama
If we’re going by experience, then, doesn’t that mean that McCain’s decades of experience, plus running for President, outstrip Obama’s experience?
All other issues aside, I’m not sure that having a president who claims ‘running for president’ as executive experience is such a good idea. Senator Obama, you should fire whoever gave you that talking point.
But while Barack Obama was running for president (and purportedly gaining all this magnificent experience), Sarah Palin was working for the people who elected her. In 2007, while Obama was making the rounds to benefit his candidacy, Governor Palin was tending to a state of emergency in Alaska. In 2008, while Obama was raging against McCain with misleading statistics, Governor Palin was helping to manage an emergency situation in Alaska.
Which experience would you trust?