That's because they believe the only real experience is to be had in DC. What the rest of us do out in the part of America that doesn't matter, the small towns and all that, is not important. But that is one of the things Americans are going to like about this. We are sick to death of DC as you can see from the congressional approval ratings. We don't want more of that, and that is just what Biden gives us.
If Sarah Palin was a Democrat and was chosen as the VP pick by Barrack Hussein Obama, Juan Williams would be doing cartwheels proclaiming what a great pick she was. When Juan speaks, simply feel sorry for him.
One news analyst apparently said that Obama had experience in that he has been running for president for 3 years, whereas Palin didn't have any viable experience.So, Obama running for president equals experience. Palin sitting as mayor and governor does not equal experience. That is the kind of thinking that is being fed to the sheeple by the MSM.
Launching a political career as a small-town mayor creates one of the most interesting resume items a candidate for higher office can have. A small town mayor doesn’t just blabber in the legislature about theoretical soutions to vaguely defined problems but has to actually SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS.
And more than that, they operate in an environment of complete accountability and transparency. Their constitutents know where they live, where their children go to school, their home phone number, etc. It’s far easier for a legislator to hide himself away in a body of 100 other speechifiers than it is for a small-town mayor to duck the public.
In fact, I would argue that the reason you do NOT see many Sarah Palins rise to the top of the political heap from such environs is that most who reach the top would never take the risk of being a mayor, small-town or otherwise, or do so well at the job as to merit a step up to governor and beyond in the first place.
In FACT, I would argue that had Barack Obama taken his empty-rhetoric, barely-in-the-closet Marxist approach to governing a town of 9,000 his career in politics would have stopped dead right there.