How much experience does 50 Employees and a 12 million dollar a Year budget really give you ?

Question

This describes the Government of Alaska, are people serious when they say this is the experience that she has over Obama. his Monthly campaign budget doubles Alaska's yearly Budget and he hs 5 times more paid employees and thousands of volunteers.

Answer 1

Much more than Obama has.

Answer 2

because my overly simplistic friend...as Harry Truman once pointed out "the buck stops HERE" with a brass sign on his OVAL OFFICE desk...Sarah has had HER *** on the line for not ONE but TWO levels of State government...

how many municipalities or States has Barry been PERSONALLY responsible for governing???....

there's your answer...I doubt you'll like it

Answer 3

Get your numbers right  - more like Admin alone $270,000,000 and hundreds or mores employees add to that the capital funds and we are into the 10's of billions.

Maybe this will help you understand -

Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system.  The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks.  It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.

As governor of Alaska, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counterterrorism.  Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden's.

She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counterterrorism plans.

Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country's defense.  Given Alaska's proximity to Russia, she may have security clearances we don't even know about.

According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out.  This is a woman used to keeping secrets.

She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.

Answer 4

Obama has a campaign manager and a budget manager.   So does he get credit for the work of others?  

Even if Palin does not have the experience of Obama,  she is running for the #2 position and has time to learn the ropes.  Obama is running for the #1 postion and as Biden said last year,  the Presidency is not an on-the-job training position.    

What ever criticism of Palin not having enough experience, you can say the exact same for Obama.   At least with Palin a more exerienced guy will be OVER her instead of UNDER.   Perhaps the Democrat ticket should be Biden Obama based upon their experience level.  

Answer 5

Ever heard the phrase, "economies of scale."

Bigger numbers aren't more difficult to manage than smaller numbers.  It's the process of managing the numbers that counts.

Furthermore, you are giving the numbers from when she was a MAyor of a small town, not the numbers from her time as GOVERNORS of the 2nd largest state in the country, with the most coastline, and the most diplomatic exchange with foreign countries.  

Answer 6

Is this an issue between Sarah Plain and Obama? Because last time I heard she was running for Vice President and he was running for President. There is a slight difference here. Why not compare his Vice President candidate to her, that makes more sense.

Answer 7

More experience than Obama has....

Answer 8

more than 143 days of service since 2004 from obama.

www.thomas.gov

thats the online library of congress. you should l

Answer 9

less that the manager of my corner McDonald's for sure.

Answer 10

More than 134 days in Senate and over 100 votes of present.

Answer 11

Obama has zero experiencee and being in charge of 6 employees in his campaign camp has been his biggest and only experience of being in charge of anything and only shows up in washington to pick up a paycheck he doesn't earn, palin as a mayor and governor had to make more decisions for over 500000  people than Obama could imagine, Obama has no executive or administration experience and in other words that fool couldn't organize a p**s line//// and palin is going for VP and the phony you blindly follow wants to run this country//// He will lose and be thankful for it as you will then have a future////

Answer 12

That makes her middle class by Mick Cain's measures...a small business entrepreneur. There are many small businesses in the U.S. which are larger than Alaska.  

There are either some very uninformed people here responding or some who are outright liars.  Alaska has a population of 640,000, less than half of the poor state of WV.  It is the largest in land area with one person for every .90 square mile.

Rob:  the "or" should be "and" so McCain/Palin and Disaster 2010.

Answer 13

And the point is?

Are you suggesting that more money, more employees gets one better results.

And why on earth are you comparing Obama to a VP choice. It's not exactly comparing apples with apples.

Your premise is off from the get go.

Answer 14

About 10x as much as a US Senator.

At least she has executive experience.  Obama only has legislative experience and that is greatly different.  I'd say Palin is far more experienced then Obama ever was.

Plus she doesn't have shady characters in her back ground like Obama either (Wright, Ayers, Rezko).