Posted on 09/02/2008 5:46:30 AM PDT by pissant
Anderson Cooper asked Barack Obama last night to answer the claim that Sarah Palin has more applicable experience than he does. In response, he completely ignores Palin’s status as governor, and then makes the claim that a campaign counts as executive experience:
AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They’ve in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What’s your response?
BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Someone needs to ask him what was the max number of employees he managed prior to the campaign.
4? 5?
There’s a big difference between ‘exposure’ and ‘experience’ and celebrity Obama only has the former.
One “drinking game” we used to play in college involved watching the movie “Scarface” on video and taking a drink every time the “F” word is used. Few could last through the entire movie.
Perhaps we should do it today with a new “twist”. Watch B. Hussein try to speak without a script, and take a drink every time he uses the “uh” word. Few will last through the first five minutes...
Is that the official Democrat Memo: Ignore the fact the Sarah Palin is governor of the largest state in the USA?
OR, we could watch the REAL Scarface of today, and go through a day with him, and how many times he drops the F Bomb, and drink each time. We might get blasted. (Hint: Ask any nearby US Senator).
She runs the entire state of Alaska on less than what the DNC is spending on the election.
More experience and less frivolous with spending.
Governor of Alaska: 17,000 employees, $9 billion budget.
The fact that CNN is even asking these questions of Obama shows McCain’s strategy about Palin’s vs Obama’s experience is working out big time.
I do like how they use the “well he’s been campaigning for 2 years” as if this somehow makes him qualified to be pres.
Are you kidding? My tapeworm would have to go through the 12 step program.
This is great..while she was managing..he was campaigning and igonoring his senate duties.
Obama now has to run against Palin..so he should have to debate her. Or how about a town hall meeting in Anchorage?
Or maybe a town hall meeting at Ft. Richardson?
Who do you want as President..Obama or Palin?
Wasn’t he supposed to be representing the state of Illinois as one of its U.S. senators during those two years?
B. Hussein should be made to choose: does the two years as “senator” count towards your “experience”; or does the two years “managing” the p[residential campaign count towards your “experience”?
And there is not enough Alka-Seltzer or water on the planet to help with the hang-over you’d have the next day, either.
BWWWWWWWWWWWHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!
It’s early yet- but so far, that’s The Post of The Day!
He’s been tapped by the King of “Uhs”, Ted Kennedy, to carry on the legacy.
This article sums it up:
P.S. not to worry - Joe Biden has it covered- because HE’S the one running for POTUS:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe-no.html
September 01, 2008 5:13 PM
At a Scranton, Penn., Italian festival this afternoon, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del. standing on the side of a black Suburban, took the microphone to address the downtown crowd and explain why Hurricane Gustav precluded his campaigning today.
“I will be back, I’ll be back to campaign in earnest,” Biden said, “but today is not the moment for me to campaign. Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what’s happening down there” in the Gulf Coast.
Biden has still spent more time this election cycle campaigning for president than he has running for vice president.
— Jake Tapper and Matt Jaffe
LOL!!! That’s it...I’m not drinking coffee while reading posts anymore. Keyboards are getting too expensive!
ALaska has 25,000 employees on the state payroll.
How much executive talent does it take to spend $250M of donated money with no guarantee of performance? His Marxist slip is showing again...
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