Is 143 days as a senator is better executive experience than 2 years as governor? ?

Question

Liberals keep attacking Palin’s experience for VP and while also saying it is “hypocritical” to attack Obama for the same reason. Typical Liberal Catch-22.

Let me guess... "McCain is 72", "VP's sometimes become president", "Obama has more experience than Palin", "Obama makes better judgments" "Cheney does a lot” or some senseless attack on Palin. These are all NOT answers to the question.

Gotta love that "what about d**k Cheney?" rant. The Libs accuse him of doing everything bad with no proof or facts and then use these baseless accusations as proof that VP does a lot.

Answer 1

143 days combined with 8 years in his state legislature certainly is.

The desperate ones always leave the rest out...

edit: I think you may be overestimating (and misunderstanding how it  relates to gov't.) the importance of 'executive' experience. She was also a sports reporter... however, I don't consider that a criteria for choosing a VP either.

Answer 2

Why are you even comparing the presidential candidate to the VP?

By the way,liberals are attacking Palin and her little experience because McCain b*tched at Obama for not having enough experience (which he doesn't).

Also,Obama and Palin have different kinds of exerience.Obama has little legislative experience,and Palin has little executive. Keep in mind that the population in Palin's state is smaller than a city.

Answer 3

Uhm actuallllly Obama had about 21+ years experience, may not be executive experience but he worked in the south side of chicago since 85, Palin was still pumping out babys in 85

So its 143 days + about 5,565 days. Overall and when weee combine Palin experience its about like 6 years? Total? 1,590 days?

If you want to talk about d**k Cheney, HE had executive experience and now look at his Haliburton stock now becuase of the war it has skyrocketed 3,000 percent

Can anyone even tell me an issue that affects us that she has a position on? I bet they are pumping her full of stuff to rememeber to the VP debate against joe Biden, Its like a penguin vs Optimus Prime with foreign issue experience

Answer 4

Palin has been governor of a state that has less than 1/10th the population of New York City. I am not impressed.

She also has nothing worthwhile to say on any major issues.

Answer 5

Governor for 20 months. or:

Senator for 6 years.

Which is more experience?

EDIT

stop framing your questions, what's next?  Who has more experience as a woman?

Answer 6

why do conservatives ignore Obama's state experience... when that's all Palin has?

it's 12 years to 2 if you include state and national experience.... or 143 vs. 0 days for national....

either way... Obama's been in the game longer....

your question ignores the facts... surprise!

Answer 7

now obama is saying since he runs his campaign"which he doesn't" is the same experience palin has,lol.have you ever heard anything so stupid.for being a ivy league grad.he sure is dumb.

Answer 8

Why do you McCainiacs keep saying he has "143 days" of experience? Are you all mathematically challenged or just plain liars? Maybe someone can explain where that figure came from?

Hmmm ... the McCain supporters virtually all say that Palin has "executive experience" and that 'trumps' the legislative experience of Senator Obama.

Senator Obama was in the Illinois State Legislature from 1997 to 2004 (call it six years), and has been in the US Senate since the 2004 elections (sworn in in January 2005, so call it three and a half years). That is almost ten years (legislative) experience at the state and national level.

Governor Palin was on the "city" council and was mayor of a town of less than 9000 people for four years each (does that even count?), and has been Governor of Alaska since January, 2006 (two and a half years). That is just over ten years, at the local and state level.

It would appear to be a draw, unless local, state and national experience is weighted differently, or legislative and executive experience is weighted differently. In any event, they are running for different offices. However, the Vice President must be qualified to become President in the event of the death or incapacitation of the President, so the 'different offices' argument is really not quite accurate.

One final observation. If Governor Palin's 'executive' experience is more important that Senator Obama's 'legislative' experience, doesn't that also minimize Senator McCain's wholly legislative experience?

Answer 9

No, not really.

It does not matter either, Palin is not running for President, and never will for The GOP.

Answer 10

Apparently you need to study a calendar a little more as Obama has been a US Senator for nearly 4 years and prior to that was in the IL State Legislature for 8 years.  Palin has been the Governor for just over 20 months and was the Mayor of an extremely small town for a few years prior to that.

In addition, if you are comparing executive experience, what does McCain have?  If anything, both McCain and Obama have great executive experience running a Presidential campaign.  You may like to overlook it, but the fact is running a campaign of this magnitude is probably much more demanding than running a state of 700,000 people.

Answer 11

No.  Executive experience can come from being a CEO, a mayor or a governor.

Senators have a much different kind of experience.

Answer 12

Palin's primary experience is as mayor of a small town.  She did manage to get the town tens of millions of federal earmarks, but not much else going on there.  Obama has more than 10 years legislative experience.

Answer 13

Yes, it's better than writing a bill and then saying you'd vote against it, or saying you voted against something, when you actually voted for it.

140 days until your leader is gone!  Woohoo!

Answer 14

yes because Governors ask Senators to work, Senators go to work and Governors simply sign the paper or ask the Senators for more work.

Answer 15

by your train of thought the governor whom has been in office the longest is the most qualified. OK I'll buy that, but did you know that she is not the only female republican governor? Linda Lingle whom has more experience and a better education than Palin was not chosen . Is it because Lingle is a L*****n? If we are truly color and gender blind does sexual orientation matter?

I smell hypocrisy here folks. Even though the republicans want to run a woman they didn't pick the most qualified one just the pretty one.

Answer 16

nobody is attacking her for her lack of experience.

we're pointing out the hypocracy of the republicans attacking Obama for his apparent lack of experience...and THEN choosing a VP with very little experience...

We could care less about "experience"    d**k Cheney and George W Bush had PLENTY of experience and look where he got us...

Abe Lincoln had less experience than Obama....and look where He got us...

Experience is over rated....we just like to point out that you guys were obsessed with it, and now you're VP doesn't have any.

Answer 17

Palin has more executive experience than Biden and Obama together!

Answer 18

Here is a post from earlier today.  

You could claim that her record has been exemplary in the posts that she's held--except that it hasn't been. She left Wassila a mess. You could claim that she's shown consistently good judgement--except that joining a secessionist party and backing Buchanan demonstrates the opposite. If nothing else, you could claim that she's won the support of huge numbers of people (as both Obama and Clinton can claim after the primary!), but she hasn't. She's popular in a state that has fewer residents than the city of San Francisco.