Who is less qualified, Obama or Palin?

Question

All Obama ever did as Senator is vote present. At least Palin had to actually make decisions as governor.

Answer 1

Palin...she has no law degree and her political experience is limited to rooms with a moose head.

Answer 2

Obama, no executive experience at all and he hasn't showed up at work for nearly two years. Most of us would be fired with that poor job performance, he must belong to the politicians union.

Answer 3

WHO CARES?! THEY AREN'T RUNNING FOR THE SAME POSITION!

Answer 4

Obama has very little experience because he has mostly been running for office. Obama has no executive experience, which would help when you are running for the top executive position.

Plain has many years making executive decisions as mayor and governor. She also made wise decisions.

Answer 5

well we have seen many become elected president with much less experience who ended up becoming some of our greatest.  would you rather have more of the same greedy, sneaky, untrustworthy, blood hungry GOP leaders running this country.  also, who, by the way don't believe in global warming...I mean at least Obama is not bringing along all that baggage...her teen daughter pregnant, now using her seat as governor to have her former brother in law, fired from his state trooper job because of a custody battle with her sister....whats next?  

Answer 6

Palin is less qualified.

PRE-POLITICAL EDUCATION:

Palin: University of Idaho. B.A. in Journalism

Obama: Occidental College,Columbia University,Harvard Law School- B.A. in political science and international relations. Professional Doctorate (J.D. or Juris Doctor) magnacum laude from Harvard.

PRE-POLITICAL EXPERIENCE:

Palin: Winner of the 1984 Miss Wasilla beauty contest, 2nd in the Miss Alaska pageant. Won "Miss Congeniality" award for playing flute. Breifly a sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage. Also helped her husbands commercial fishing business.

Obama: 4 years at New York Public Interest Research Group, a non partisian political organization. 3 years as a community organizer on the south side of chicago. Editor of Harvard Law Review, later elected President of Harvard Law review. Director of Illinois Project Vote. Teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. Associate and counsel of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm for 11 years. Founding member of the board of directors Public Allies. Served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation. Served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge for 7 years. Served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center

POLITICAL CAREER:

Palin: 1992-1996- Served 2 terms on city council then 2 terms as Mayor of Wasilla Alaska- population 6700 people.

Obama: 4 years as an illinois senator- population 12,852,548 people. Chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.

Palin: 1 year as Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner. Then moved on to serve almost 2 years as governer of Alaska- population 683,478. One of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service Inc". Lifelong NRA member.

Obama: An additonal 4 years as a U.S. Senator. Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs. Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and more.

MAJOR POLITICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Palin: In 2007, pressured lawmakers to get the Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act passed to build a natural gas pipeline to deliver 35 trillion feet of North Slope natural gas to market. ....Alaska's first woman governor.....

Obama: Sponsored over 800 bills to reform healthcare, ethics in washington, veterans benefits and more. Passed a bill that expanded healthcare to over 100,000 people in Illinois.. Passed a bill that set up community health centers to serve underserved populations. Passed a bill that provided the earned income tax credit to thousands of Illinois families. Passed a bill reforming the death penalty that had sent innocent people to death row. Passed a major ethics reform bill that banned excessive gifts from lobbysts. Co-sponsored a bill to mandate regualr inspections of Veterans hospitals like Walter Reid.

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Answer 7

Obviously obama is less qualified.

He was a part-time legislator in Illinois - the legislature only meets for a few months each year.

As US Senator, he only worked 143 days because he spent his time running for president.

He has no military or foreign affairs experience, nor does he have any executive or management background.

He claims as a major accomplishment the co-sponsorship of ethics legislation that covered members of the Senate.

Does anyone think that politicians are more honest?

Governor Palin has held elective and appointive offices for 16 years, much longer than Obama, including the Governorship of one of the most important energy-producing State in the US in a time when this is a major issue facing our country.

Her experience included budget responsibility (Obama had none) and decision making that directly affected the lives of her constituents.

Obama voted on bills as one of many legislators.

The buck stopped at Palin's desk.

As Commander of Alaska's National Guard, she was responsible for their training and coordination with the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. This involved national security exercises and coordinating with local and international law enforcement and first responders.

She visited HER own National Guard troops in Iraq - long before Obaam bothered to go - and stopped at Landstuhl Military Hospital to visit wounded troops on her way home.

She has extensive knowledge of the energy business and successfully negotiated a return of funds from the oil and gas companies to the citizens of Alaska.

Palin renegotiated a sweetheart deal on a pipeline which is now a major public works project worth $15 billion to the State of Alaska and will carry natural gas to the Lower 48 helping to bring us energy independence.

What do we get from Obama?  blah blah blah

He gives us Hot Air and she gives us results.

The Democrats and Obamedia are questioning her qualifications yet they dared not ask these SAME questions about Obama.

Why not?

He is not ready to lead.

Not by any long shot.

She beats him by any measure of competence and achievement.

Answer 8

Hate to tell you,but obama never passed a bill unless he ate it and it came out the other end. Senators don't pass bills, they vote to pass bills with 99 other senators. Did anyone on here ever go to school?

Answer 9

If you want to be technical about it, they're both somewhat unqualified for the position that they're in the race for.

Answer 10

What tickled blue said.

You can't argue with facts.

Er... what am I saying?  Republicans deny reality all the time.

Answer 11

Palin.  Obama won his party's presidential nomination, which is a very important qualification for getting elected president.