He’s actually starting to run against Sarah Palin:
“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,”
(CNN via Adam’s Blog)
No, no, no. You say: “Sarah Palin? I’ll remind you I’m running for the presidency against Senator John McCain, who I’ve worked with and known in the United States Senate, and who on almost every issue of substance today is critically and completely dead wrong…blah, blah, blah”
Instead he bites the equivalent of a frayed fiberglass lure the dumbest bass in Kentucky would pass on.
Note that Obama didn’t talk about his Senate “leadership”, but his political campaign . . .
Heh.
Yeah, he’s running against the VP Republican… and claiming his *campaign* as executive experience.
I was trying to watch a clip of “the View” and got just far enough to notice that one of the ladies repeated the size of his campaign staff as being more experience than Palin’s got.
I realize that the idea is probably that her home town is soooooooo small… but I don’t think that’s what people are going to bring away from it (particularly if they have even a smidge of help pointing their thoughts to the idea of a campaign as relevant exp (and won’t Palin get that equally now, too?). But… but… does he REALLY want to go on about how small her home town is?
Doesn’t he realize he’s still vulnerable to the perception of elitism?
It would be much more appropriate to compare his campaign running experience to Palin’s Gov of AK experience, but then he’d be exposing himself big time. On top of that, he has a campaing manager I would assume, and most of the real management of the campaign falls to that person, so really Obama is lying by bringing this “experience” up.