McCain: Palin more qualified than Obama

[GinaMaria]

Source: Mike Allen

Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

snip

The campaign announced: “The McCain campaign will launch a television ad directly comparing Governor Palin’s executive experience as a governor who oversees 24,000 state employees, 14 statewide cabinet agencies and a 10 billion dollar budget to Barack Obama’s experience as a one-term junior Senator from Illinois.”



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080903/pl_politico/13111

---

Please please please, McSame, show everyone that you just don't get it and pay a heap of your own cash to do it. Please show the American people how lame you are. Thanks for making this so easy. All I can say to the McC camp is BRING IT! Please spend your money announcing your poor decision making skills.

[stray cat]

1. Palin more qualified then McCain by the same standards - she balances her how checkbook

[GinaMaria]

4. Almost shot coffee out of my nose

that is funny.... because it's true. :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[LiberalFighter]

43. Does Failing Palin know the location of her home(s)?

[Solly Mack]

2. By his logic, Palin is more qualified than he is...so McCain isn't qualified to be President

I'm glad he admits this

[d_b]

3. black is white, up is down.

they know people think she isn't qualified. probably watched that frank luntz video.

[GinaMaria]

6. Ever feel like we're watching the Mad McHatter's

political party? He throws an insane tea party, but his political party is just nonsense!

[4lbs]

5. Only if Alaska becomes it's own country.

The only way Sarah Palin is more qualified than Barack Obama to handle anything is if Alaska ever secedes and the President then has to deal with them as a new country.

Otherwise.... Ummm.... No.

[Indenturedebtor]

7. The biggest story in this whole Palin thing

Is that she worked for exactly that!

She was a member of a seccessionist party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lonestarnot]

8. ROFLMAO. Go Lumpy go!

:applause:

[faulknercindy]

9. You know it jjust gets

nuttier everyday. They really in all reality think we are stupid. And I guess some are to believe this garbage.

[Cassandra]

10. In 2004, the one with the most executive experience was Bush.

How's that working out for you all?

[DUlover2909]

17. Here-here.

[AlbertCat]

28. Egg-Zactly

What kind of exec experience do you have if the governor RUINED the state of which they were in charge. Palin had been governor for about 4 seconds and started firing people she didn't like. Great experience.

[RoccoR5955]

11. Give McAncient a break,

He's old and desperate. They're grasping at straws here folks. They know it, and we all know it. Only fools will fall for this one. The only problem is that there are an awful lot of fools in the US.

[agentS]

12. OK McCain, you want the 'experience' ball, FINE! TAKE IT!

If McCain's camp wants to claim that she has more 'executive' experience than Obama, I say fine!
Let's look at that 'experience' then!
20 million dollars of debt to a city of 8,000 people,
Trooper-gate,
hacking the computer of a rival,
Secession-gate,
not knowing what the VP does,
moving important services from Juneau to northern Anchorage/Wasilia,
tied to big oil,
raising taxes twice,
and so on.

In 20 months of running Alaska, all she's done is FUCK the state UP! So yeah, being a Christian Fascist screwup governor is experience- NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE.
Obama has less experience, but look at what he's done with it. It's not the time- it's what you've done (or not done) that matters.
Still wanna make 'experience' an issue, McCain? Because in your 56 years of military/congressional experience, you've been as big a FUCKUP as Palin has!

COUNTRY FIRST MY HAIRY ASS!

[GinaMaria]

14. hacking the computer of a rival,?

I missed this one. Do you have a link? This is a modern Watergate. She functions using moves out of the Nixon play book.

[paparush]

19. Da Google is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMP_enUS291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=palin+hacking

[Winterblues]

30. In 20 months of running Alaska, all she's done is FUCK the state UP!

Maybe you could give a specific example. I happen to live in the state and I just plain don't believe you. I happen to know the truth.

[agentS]

32. Well, this should be prime example #1

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837868,00.html

Pushing for more oil drilling and blocking environmental protection isn't exactly doing your state any favors.

She's also in favor of selling out the fishing industry to please the mining industry.

Let me know if that's enough truth for you.

[Winterblues]

35. What she is in favor of and what she has actually done are quite different things.

I want to know a specific example of how she has fucked up the state of Alaska in the last 20 months...

[GinaMaria]

13. Ignore it. It will go away

"Senior adviser Steve Schmidt gave Politico a statement saying the campaign will have no more comment about the vetting process, which was the subject of more critical coverage in Wednesday morning’s papers:"

Are the patients running the asylum? Avoidance is their defense?

[elocs]

15. Right! Bring it on, John.

I'm sure it will be a very successful ad, only not for you. Evidently you believe the American people are very stupid.

[tavalon]

16. Tell me Senator McCain, just what have you been smoking?

I would like some.

[CitizenPatriot]

18. OMG

he's going to make it about the ISSUES?

HA HA!!! Hasn't he learned from rove yet that all he needs is a flag pin, a nasty mouth, an aggressive first punch and a thief's heart?

the America People can be fooled, McCain -- but not on this message. not this way. good god he is a moran.

[torbird]

20. Well, buying that ad was $$$ well spent.

Moron.

[LynnTheDem]

21. Just keep on saying it, mcCane; the freepers will believe you.

:rofl:

[Auggie]

22. They just might.

[FVZA_Colonel]

42. They already do.

They were a lost cause to begin with.

[applegrove]

23. The GOP will compare Obama to Palin till the cows come home. It makes

him look lesser as he is being compared to a VP candidate..not John McCain.

[nolabels]

24. Actually McCain's comparison is just one more reason McCain is not qualified

Most anybody could be pretty sure someone with Palin's credentials wouldn't even garner 1% in a primary or caucus. What this McCain guy is actually saying he does not believe voters are not best to decide who is best qualified :shrug:

[LuckyLib]

26. Even George Will says she's short on experience. Jeez, when George is skeptical . . .

[opihimoimoi]

25. McWorst just don't get it....them pub friends of his don't get it either

Pass the popcorn....

[Zenlitened]

27. But, Mr. McCain, Obama is more qualified than YOU.

And that's precisely what this election is all about.

[samsingh]

29. more experience being hyprocrites maybe - this raises more

questions about mccain's judgement.

[progressivebydesign]

31. It's the talking point.. 'she has more executive experience"

I saw some right wing mommy posting that crap on a non-political board today "Love Palin!!! - she's the only one of the 4 that actually has excutive experience." And I keep seeing that meme over and over again.

My husband works with a guy that is a low low low level volunteer for the repubs (we're talking the guy that's sweeping up confetti,) and HE gets talking points emailed to him almost every day!!!) They are sending out talking points to everyone...

[apnu]

33. Apparently McCain thinks Palin is more qualified than Abe Lincoln.

What an idiot.

[davekriss]

34. Bwahahahahahaha!

McIdiot, you make me laugh! What a carnival side-show you are!!!

[yellowdogintexas]

36. The only thing she is more qualified to do than Obama is bear children nt

[chelsea0011]

37. I hope he mentions the PTA as he did on Sunday talking about how she

is more qualified than Obama. That will be funny to watch over and over.

[krkaufman]

38. But wouldn't that theme then also mean she has more experience than McCain?

What a tool.

[HughBeaumont]

39. Seriously? McClown? Do you REALLY want to go there?

http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/palin_vs_obama_line_by_line_resume_comparison

1980 - 1984
Obama: B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from Columbia University.

Palin: Wasilla High School, captain of the state-champion basketball team. Miss Wasilla, runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, also Miss Congeniality, although that is now disputed.
Him: Ivy League degree. Her: tiara.

1985 - 1990
Obama: moved to Chicago; became a community organizer as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization on Chicago's far South Side. During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization.

Moved to Boston to attend Harvard Law School. Selected as an editor and then elected president of the Harvard Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.

Palin: Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, with a minor in political science from the University of Idaho. Brief stint as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations; left to join her husband in commercial fishing.
Him: sterling legal education. Her: sportscaster.

1991 - 1995
Obama: graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School; received contract and advance to write a book ("Dreams from my Father") as well as a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. Directed the Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be. Appointed as a Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. Active in several community organizations, usually as a board member.

Palin: member of the Alasaka Indepence Party which advocates "Alaska First". Elected to Wasilla city council.

Him: Expert on our nation's fundamental legal principles. Her: plotted to leave the Union; thinks Pledge of Allegiance was written by our founding fathers.

( . . . read on . . .)

[and-justice-for-all]

40. Debates will prove otherwise McCane...

You and your AIP militant will be destroyed.

[radfringe]

41. using the "executive experience" yardstick

then palin has more executive experience than mccain.

I propose the repubs switch the ticket - palin for pres, mccain for vp

[Thor_MN]

44. If he was going for batshit crazy, marginally good looking women, why didn't he tap Michele Bachman?

She's equally insane, and probably has less excess baggage...

[Stellabella]

45. Really? Where's her law degree?

Did she put herself through Harvard Law? Has she worked to help people in her community? Has anyone HEARD of her before McLame spun the bottle and picked her?

She's a joke, just like Gramps.