Obama campaign highlights Palin's 'zero' experience

breitbart ^ | 8/29/08 | staff

[pissant]

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her "zero" foreign policy experience.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.

"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," he said.

The choice of Palin was seen as a bold effort by McCain to attract disgruntled Democratic and independent supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by Obama in the race to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.

Palin, a telegenic conservative, has led the oil-producing northwestern US state since December 2006 and was the first woman and youngest person to hold that state's top job.

[RogerWilko]

Speaking of Nancies,,Pelosi has got to be crying in her botox right about now!

That's what I said, HAHAHHHAHHH!! IN PELOSI'S FACE!!

[RJS1950]

First Palin is running for veep not potus. Second, she has as much foreign policy experience as BO and no, living overseas as a kid, visiting and then ignoring poor relatives in Kenya, and quickie trips as a candidate do not count as foreign policy experience. She has more executive experience than BO. She has at least as much experience in both areas as the two previous POS democrat presidents (carter/clinton) did when they as governors ran for potus the first time; so BO is saying that they were not qualified. The pundits and talk-show twits should be sticking to just these facts and shove them up the dems arses on a regular basis.

[truthluva]

I do believe the McCain campaign has shifted in to Rovian gear!!!

This VP pick is awesome. And we can tell it is by how the Dims are reacting.

McCain/Palin 2008!!!

[Domandred]

I screwed up reading. It is funny now actually that I read it properly.

[truthluva]

Hmmm...and what else did Barack Hussein Obama learn during that time????

[OKIEDOC]

van_erwin wrote:
Obambi might be wet behind the ears, but Palin is even worse! She’s been a beauty queen, mayor of a small town, and she’s spent a year and a half running Alaska.
What is McCain’s camp thinking? I understand that he’s going for the Hillary voters, but come on.

Coutersy Comment:

Errr...come on now, put down the bong, tell the truth..you were always looking for an flimsy excuse to vote for a looser like Barr.

[anoldafvet]

So if you live in a small town, you basically aren’t worth anything according to the Obamalamadingdong campaign. I wonder how that makes all the people in small towns feel?

[Hoffer Rand]

Bet she can out bowl him, too.

[van_erwin]

You might have trouble reading what I wrote, so let me spell it out for you. McCain is too liberal for me. Palin is too inexperienced. Why on earth would you think "my" candidate would be Obama, who is the worst of both of those things combined? I'm looking at Barr, but I'd open to anyone who has a better conservative candidate for me to vote for. An alarming number of Freepers might have forgotten about McCain's liberal record, but I haven't.

[OKIEDOC]

MurryMom wrote:
Let’s wait and see if Sarah is able to distinguish between the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, unlike her running mate. Senator Obama visited the Middle East while in college, and learned from his experience unlike Republicans who still support continuation of the killing in Iraq.

Comment:

Tat, Tat, Tat, off our medications again are we, calling Nurse Rachet, calling Nurse Rachet.

[Domandred]

Palin has to maintain direct diplomatic contact with Russia, South Korea and Japan as a matter of course, and indeed has more experience than Obama internationally.

I would love to see that line in a McCain campaign retort.

[jwalsh07]

Let’s wait and see if Sarah is able to distinguish between the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, unlike her running mate.

i'm sure Sarah Palin will be able to distinguish the Sunnis from the Shia's. I'm absolutely positive that she can distinguish a baby in the womb from an appendix which left wing loons like yourself are patently incapabale of doing.

[Petronski]

Senator Obama visited the Middle East while in college...

Well, to be fair, I'm sure Palin too visited her homeland (Idaho) while a young adult.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

She’s the house lunatic.

Sort of an example of just how nutty libs are without the trouble of visiting DU.

[fanfan]

I guess she doesn’t need Allen Brothers.

;-)

[poinq]

Her stump speech needs to have this line:

“It's funny that women always get the cleaning jobs.
I have cleaned up a town, I have cleaned up a state and I can clean up this country. Obama as never cleaned up anything. The dishes are still in his sink. He has not run a state. He has never run a town. He hasn't even run a gas station. Who is he to question my abilities.”

[beethovenfan]

Well said! (Except Demo arses is redundant).

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

We certainly haven’t forgotten that Bob Barr has gone of the deep end.

Enjoy the next for years of bitterness.

[VideoDoctor]

If you simply look at what she has been able to accomplish just as the Alaskan Governor you would have to come to the conclusion that she is deceptively POWERFUL.

You don't make the things happen that she went up against, even in Alaska, without undertstanding the power structure and how to sway it in your direction.

She's a BIG DOG in a small package.

[sgtyork]

Pretty good review of DNC talking points there. You guys pushed that gaffe meme pretty hard, but in addition to being false, its picayune.

So what did Obama learn in Pakistan? More hatred for America? Indonesia and Kenya connections and solid relationships with weatherman domestic terrorism. That’s the experience we want in the white house.

Troll! Begone.