Side by Side Comparison - Obama vs Palin
MikeR on Aug 30 2008 at 4:00 pm | Filed under: Around the Web, MikeR's Page
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Obviously not written by an Obama supporter but there is some truth in spite of a bit of snark.
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Obama has twenty years of experience as a leader, community organizer and constitutional scholar. He has Eleven years of experience in elective office. He spent eight years in the Illinois Senate, four years in the US senate, three years as a community organizer. He worked for a civil rights law firm specializing in neighborhood economic development, he taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago and has also worked as a financial analyst. He is also an accomplished author. Obama’s record as a senator is impressive, he has served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Committee of Veterans Affairs, the Committee for Health, Education Labor and Pension and the Committee of Homeland Security and Governmental affairs. He has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills in the 109th and 110th Congress (15 of which have become LAW). He has introduced amendments to 50 bills (16 were of which were adopted by the Senate). These bills reveal the decency of his character: Energy Efficiency and Climate Change (25 bills); Health care (21 bills) and public health (20 bills); Consumer protection/labor (14 bills); The needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces (13 bills); Congressional Ethics and Accountability (12 bills); Foreign Policy (10 bills); Voting and Elections (9 bills); Education (7 bills); Hurricane Katrina Relief (6); The Environment (5 bills); Homeland Security (4 bills); Discrimination (4 bills)
Palin who has been a governor for less than 20 months, previously served as the major of a small town of 6,500, Wasilla, whose headline news samplings range from the winner of the local 79 pound cabbage contest to an altercation at the local intersection. Oh yeah, she also served on the PTA. This is a person quoted to say, “I haven’t really focused on the war in Iraq…” or the classic, “I don’t know what a VP does.” Are you kidding me?
Yep, Barack Obama has indeed introduced amendments to legislation, Sarah Palin has originated policy and signed legislation actualizing policy into law. Which is more valuable experience for the presidency do you think?
And I’m just curious by the way, do you actually have those quantities memorized, or do you copy and paste them from a file when you wish to chant?
Obama has all elite creditals that would make any libral (a.k.a…communist) wet their pants. Interesting how the debate has shift to Obama’s experience to lead the country. Of course, no one questions Biden or McCain… But it’s interesting that the chosen “One” is nailed to wall as being weak in this area…. Obama’s cult of personality might just come crashing down on his on real lack of exerience to lead.
You want to compair resumes…. McCain’s includes Son & Grandson of Navy Admirals (both War Heros in their own right), U.S. Naval Academy Grad, Naval Fighter Pilot, Hero during fire onboard U.S.S. Forestal, POW and War Hero, Member of House and Senate for over two decades. I’ll take a McCain’s record over the chosen one any day.
Bush had the experience, a great father, and also was a fighter pilot. Look where it got us.
Fighter pilots have a problem when it comes to working as a team. Generally, they are talented and I am greatful for there service to our country. They are also, generally, over confident and don’t take advice well. Sound like Bush? Sound like McCain?
So you will pick someone based on what thier fathers and grandfathers did? I was unaware that we voting McCains father and grandfather to lead this country. I can understand that those might have been his role models, but i assure that no one is their parents.
Obama has the credentials that impress some people. That he went to Harvard says nothing to me of his intelligence… sure, he had to get there, but what really keeps the regular joe from attending Harvard is money, determination, and luck… Intelligence doesn’t even rate to get one person in while another isn’t admitted. And even less than smarts, it says nothing at all, at all, about Sense.
Nor does the study of law mean a person has it right, or there would be no disagreement among constitutional scholars or lawyers.
He taught at University? He got hired and then students had to listen to him. Besides it’s almost an anti-credential as university professors are NOT supposed to lead their students or tell them what to think *even* about the subjects they are teaching. A *good* univeristy professor would make a piss-poor executive of any sort.
He sat on committees, got appointed to community advocacy groups, and basically has been in charge of spending other people’s money for 20 years.
Palin didn’t *just* run for the PTA and then the Mayor and then Governor. She wasn’t sitting on her back-side for 20 years. She’s the same age as Obama and she has lived and worked for those 20 years. She started by working hard in school and doing what she could to get scholarships to a state school, including entering beauty contests, and she got her degree. Sure, lots of people do it, but it takes more effort for some than for others. And then she went to work. Her drive into politics was largely because she encountered the corruption in the government and decided to do something about it. I doubt she ever had the *ambition* to be president… if she *had* she’d have made sure to get those credentials that so impress people, she’d have been sure to cozy up to those who could put her on the government track as Obama did in Chicago.
She so obviously *hasn’t* been driving for national office. That’s not a negative, it’s a big plus.
“I haven’t focused on the war in Iraq” means nothing other than that she doesn’t pretend to be an expert. Obama pretends to understand and then displayes his ignorance. It’s a far greater example of wisdom to know enough to know she doesn’t know it all. Would Palin have declared intentions to invade Pakistan if they didn’t cooperate with us? Would Palin have insisted long after the surge showed distinct success that there was none? And then when it couldn’t be denied, that the success wasn’t due to the surge? And then, now!, say that the surge worked after all? Palin (I’ve heard) has been to the region just as many times as Barak, and she did it *before* she was ever running for national office.
And *please*… what *does* the VP do? It’s a legitimate question because other than cast tie breaking votes in the Senate the VP does as much or as little as the President gives the VP to do. This is another case where surity would be a greater indication of ignorance than Sarah Palin’s question. No doubt McCain has answered it to her satisfaction. The *rest* of that quote is her saying she wouldn’t want the job if it didn’t include real work. This is a great plus in her favor. She’s not after the position, the title, the step-up to run for the Presidency.
She wants real work.
And now the Obama campaign is claiming that *running for president* is executive experience.
To pick up on Harvard point. Let’s remember George Bush went there too.
Bush went to Yale, not to Harvard.
Legacy admissions. Obama’s father graduated from Harvard? Does that count for law school? Bush was a legacy admission. Kerry?
I think most people agree that Obama had the grades. The thing I was trying to get at was that it’s not grades or smarts that take Ivy League schools off the table for a whole heck of a lot of Americans.
Which only matters if one slips into the error of thinking that going to an Ivy League school means something desperately important.
Bush went to Yale undergrad and Harvard Business school for his MBA
Sarah Palin is a HOT RocknRoll momma………I am voting and supporting McCain and Palin……….She is HOTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!