Why do Dem's complain about Palins experience, do they think Obama is the most experienced person that they?

Question

could offer?

they are running for two different offices...and Obama is the the least experience candidate in a very long time...

Answer 1

To clarify, Obama is the least experienced canidate in over a 100 years.  Historical fact.

Answer 2

true true they don't listen to themselves thats the problem... right there  

Answer 3

you're absolutely correct.

and alaska is only 100k less people than delaware.

Mr. McCain has as much chance of dying in office, as Mr. Obama has of being assassinated.  very low odds, i think.

Answer 4

plain and simple it is the pot calling the kettle black

Answer 5

Obama is like a deer caught in headlights.  Her experience brings out his lack of experience even more.   ***

Answer 6

you don't find it even a little hypocritical for the Republicans to criticize obama's inexperience,  and then chose someone with even less experience for VP?

Answer 7

Americans voted for Obama. McCain picked Palin. is that hard to understand?

Answer 8

I think it has more to do with the fact that the GOP was complaining about Obama's lack of experience and then a much more inexperienced person was chosen for VP.  It's not an invalid issue when we're dealing with the oldest candidate for president.  Also, there was a governor/former mayor from a Southern state whose name was tossed around as a potential VP for Obama.  Right wing pundits criticized his lack of experience (what could the mayor of the 105th largest city in the US know?) and now they applaud Palin's experience (because a mayor of a town of 9000 knows more?).

It's all just proof that we need to move away from the 2 party system.

Answer 9

They want to use Palin to take McCain's experience argument off of the table. It's a smart move, I would have done the same.

Answer 10

well, Palin is a hearbeat away from becoming predident SO, she should have something more then mayor or community organizer,,..what ever, i had NEVER heard of the women till last week, case in point!    

Answer 11

Libs revel in hypocrisy.

Answer 12

i am not arguing on the experience....  

i just don't like her religious politic...  she comes off as vicious & money grubbing imo which is not anything 'different' from her party's line.  

i don't want creationism taught in public schools...   separation of church and state please!  palin thinks creationism should be taught in school...

i do want reasonable s*x education and birth control options for young adults...  kids are s******g at 12 & 13, so high school should be teaching this stuff.  palin supports abstinence-only s*x education...    

Answer 13

We've seen Obama for months now. Laying out plans, talking like a leader, being scrutinized by opponents and rising above it. We've heard plans and ideas.

With Sarah Palin right now all we have is a short resume that is riddled with controversy, and a nomination, and a platform that suggests that she is incredibly far to the right, particularly on religious issues (something which I fear is not as publicised as it should be). Obama has been on the foreign relations committee, has written (in a bipartisan capacity) legislation. We have seen him display judgement. We have seen him build a truly amazing organization over this campaign.

Sarah Palin is a completely blank slate, and in a brief stint as mayor and governor we already have stories about cronyism. We have a corruption investigation, we have her addressing and seeking support from the Alaskan Independence Party and her husband's alleged membership. We also have her being completely disingenuous (you could really say lying) about pork barreling. We don't know Sarah Palin and thus there is nothing to make me feel comfortable with her not having the resume. Obama has been under fire for months now.

Answer 14

They turned their back on their qualified candidates and opted for a greenhorn in hopes of a big change of image. Unfortunately, the flip flops, lack of personal ethics and push for the same social agenda isn't going to work. A new face doesn't change party policy only the candidate can and this one is proving he is in the pocket of the party everytime he opens his mouth.

Answer 15

Technically, VPs and Presidents are both running for the presidency.  If the president dies, the VP doesn't get to stay VP.

Concerning the qualifications of both, there is no compairson.  Alaska has a tiny population.  The population is smaller than that of Austin,TX. Palin in her previous gig as mayor of a "city" of 6,000, left it in debt.  Her economic credentials certainly don't measure up to the republican hype.

She is under investigate by a bi-partisan committee in Alaska over an alleged attempt to get her estranged brother-in-law fired from the police.  (The brother-in-law is in a custody battle for his kids.)  Certainly you can argue that the brother-in-law shouldn't be a cop, but for her to inject herself into that situation the way she allegedly did, is just foolish and reveals a total lack of understanding of the levers of power availble to her at THAT level.  How will she handle things at the VP or Presidential level?

She allowed herself to be caught on video A MONTH AGO stating she had no idea what the VP actually does.  That kind of political ineptitude hopefully will hurt McCain before the election, instead of hurting all of America after the election.

Corruption, arrogance, possibly incompetent, and a fiercely partisan hack.  She is like d**k Cheney without the experience.  This is how McCain avoids the Bush administration compairisons?

Obama on the flip side is essentially a former successful small businessman.  His much ridiculed "community advisor" experience was him running and growing a non-profit organization devoted to retraining unemployed workers and helping them get jobs to feed their families.  While he ran that thing it stayed afloat and grew to employ a lot of people in it's own right.

Neither Palin or McCain have any business experience.  McCain knows a few high rollers through the cocktail circuit via his wife, but that is it.

Obama has developed tight relations with city businessmen throughout the Midwestern states -- mostly PA, OH, IN, IL,WI, MN --- who share his desire to rebuild the economies in the big cities in those states through American energy programs.  Those are jobs that would be tied to the region and could not be outsourced. They will grow the tax base, much like the internet boom did in the 1990's.  Business folks get it.  That is were the seed money for all the green energy groups running the ads today came from. Businesses are getting the public on board to force politicians that way.  (Why do you think Pickens is trying to steer Republicans that way?) Businesses backed Obama in the primaries and were a big part of him overcoming Hillary.

McCain has publically admitted to not knowing a thing about the economy and his plans underscore that. His policy for economic prosperity starts and ends with drilling oil and cutting taxes. (I am amazed that even a sliver of folks in midwestern "union states" think that cutting taxes is going to have rich investors wanting to deal with unions.  A vote for McCain is a vote to continue to get screwed out of work.)

McCain has little business support which is why his fundraising has lagged in the primaries and in the general.  He brought in Palin to open the wallets of the rank and file Neo-cons as he could not get that financial support from businesses.

Obama has been repeatedly ridiculed by the GOP for not being savy in foreign relations, but then the Bush administration has adopted his ideas.  Remember when Obama said we should bomb Afganistan if we have actionable information concerning Al Quida?  He was skewered by everyone including the bush administration over that last year.  Since then I think the last report was that the Bush Administration has done exactly that 4 times.

Obama is quite knowledgeable about foreign policy and has great instincts for it.  Bringing in Joe Biden --- a man widely acknowledged by high level politicians in both parties as being one of America's best foreign policy minds --- only helps.

Answer 16

They are throwing everything they can think of at her to see what will stick.  Desperate times take desperate measures.

Answer 17

Experience is not my issue with Palin.  It's her extreme views.