So when folks answer the question of Palin’s experience with “what about Obama’s experience?”; I have to ask why you think Palin is just as qualified as Obama?

Those posts must have been deleted too…

Not to mention, just because John McCain is old, does NOT mean he will certainly die while in office. I think the Obama supporters who want to run this in the ground about him being too old need to step back and look- John McCain’s mother is 98 and still alive. Longevity in some cases runs genetically. Therefore, the death of McCain no longer poses an eminate threat to the US citizens, as Sarah Palin would be elected to Vice President only and would not be shifted to a presidency.

Now before you start to make another attacking, elementary, and most certainly party destorying little character of play as this seemingly high tech shot at Governor Palin explains, KNOW YOUR FACTS, USE YOUR BRAIN, AND GET REAL- MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 IS THE BEST CHOICE.

The answer is, NONE!

Clearly there is only one experienced candidate for president this year, and that is Sarah Palin!

Abraham Lincoln had less experience, on both counts, than all the previous presidents except Zachary Taylor (and Obama has only slightly more than Lincoln). And yet, Lincoln is very highly regarded. Overall, experience doesn’t seem to have tracked presidential performance [ref.]. Obviously, lack of experience is a point of concern, but it’s not insurmountable, assuming there is some other compelling attribute. Therefore, I think it would be best to keep the focus more on her performance (limited as it is, but what’s there is unsettling), her viewpoints (which should be more than a little horrifying to most moderates, to say nothing of liberals), and how well informed she is (which is to say “abysmally poorly”).

We’ll see how the debate goes tonight.

From LA Times (blog only?)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/sarah-palin-m-5.html

How Democrats set Sarah Palin up to “win” Thursday’s VP Debate.

The upcoming downside for the Obama-Biden campaign is that its supporters became so flustered over Palin’s surprisingly explosive popularity coming out of the GOP convention. They have so successfully mocked, derided and lowered expectations for Palin in Thursday night’s VP debate that if she doesn’t drool or speak in tongues, many millions still open to persuasion will be impressed.

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Obama has broad theoretical training in how the federal government is supposed to work (having taught constitutional law), he has a broad range of life experiences to draw on so he’ll be able to do basic sanity checking on the decisions percolating up from the depths of the relevant government agencies and he comes across as fairly levelheaded. While McCain has a lot of practical experience with the federal government, McCain tends to be quite erratic (taking risks and making mistakes) and it’s not really clear that McCain learns from his mistakes. While Palin has “executive” experience, that executive experience is extremely narrow. It’s unlikely that knowing how the Alaska state government functions is going to give her much insight into how the federal government functions. More generally, the range of Palin’s experiences on all aspects of life are quite narrow: she will not be able to sanity check the decisions percolating up from the relevant government agencies against her own life experiences.