I have not gone looking but I can bet that if I swing over to Blue Hampshire, or some other local Left wing blog, I’ll find shadows of the grasped straws, passed along from a blinkered media, and the nut-roots, that are meant to make us ask if we can possibly believe that Sarah Palin is ready to be the Vice President.

Barack Obama

“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years,” Obama said.

First of all, why is Obama comparing himself, the presidential candidate, to Palin the Vice Presidential candidate?  Just how insecure must one be about their own lack of experience to stoop down to take even this pathetic shot?  Why can’t the Chosen One compare himself—on matters of experience–to Senator McCain, his actual opponent?  And ask yourself why Obama, the media, and the left wing blogosphere, has focused on the Wasilla comparison, which alone provides evidence of experience Obama himself lacks, when she has had a significantly more relevant executive post, which blows away his pathetic example, and which she still currently holds as Governor of Alaska?

She’s a “heart beat away” with more executive experience than the Democrat,s man himself, and Obama–and perhaps his whole party–may not even be experienced enough (or simply too enamoured) to realize just how true that is.  And to be honest, she has more experience than Biden, who has lived the lavish life of a Senator since  Obama was around 12 years old.  He’s had the same non-committal political career as Obama, able to shirk responsibility at his convenience, and sell it as discretion.

They chose Wasilla because it’s small and tangible, but that’s just another lie.  Wasilla is like most of America, and they are either afraid of this truth, or too stupid to know better.  Neither is a ringing endorsement.

Response to Obama from Tucker Bounds—McCain campaign

“It is a testament to Barack Obama’s inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin’s executive experience; managing a budget of over $10 billion and more than 24,000 employees.”

670,000 people in Alaska held her accountable as their chief executive.  No passing the buck.  No hiding behind procedure.  No voting present or even missing votes altogether.  She was on the clock, 24/7, had a family, had a baby, brought home the bacon and friend it up in the pan.  She had to answer the phone no matter when it rang.  What’s Obama done?  Obama is a Senator in abstention, on the road, talking the talk about a walk he has never even taken.  This is why he has to ignore her obvious qualifications.  Obama knows he can’t stand up to McCain on principal, courage, bi-partisanship, fighting waste, experience, and now even on change.

So I guess we have to ask just how dishonest it is for a Presidential candidate, who has spent almost all of his limited national political experience running for another public office—and who had to choose a 36 year Washington insider to shore up his obvious lack of experience—to compare himself to the opponents VP nominee cherry picking his facts and ignoring the truth; she has had to manage a 10 billion dollar budget and 24,000 employees.  

So If Obama’s campaign is the best he can do, and if we are to believe he actually runs it, he falls short about 22,500 employees compared to Palin.  Obama’s budget misses Palin’s mark by about 9 billion, 164 Million dollars.  (a small fraction of what Obama tells us his “change” will cost the American Taxpayers) Obama thinks that 2500 employees and a 36 million dollar budget is a lot of experience, when he’s running for a job where he would conceivably have to manage millions of employees, and trillions of dollars.  It is clear just how inexperienced Senator Obama is, to even make such a comparison, and expect us not to notice.

[Update] 

I just listened to Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin speak and I would like to paraphrase and comment on two important quotes.   Both, excellent speeches by the way, from which much quoting will follow.

First, Rudy reminds us that as an executive, like a mayor or a governor, you can never vote “present.”  Every decision requires an answer, a yes or no answer, one that politician Obama has himself conveniently avoided at least 139 times as a Senator.   He avoided it because it would force him to take a side, make a stand, and express a principle, by his commitment one way or the other; a commitment that could affect his political career.  But by not taking a stand he has demonstrated to us, more clearly than ever, exactly what his principles are.   He is committed to Barack Obama above all else.

Second, Governor Palin points out that, some people use “change” to promote their political career, and others, like John McCain, use their political career to promote change.   This is a hard argument to refute given Obama’s commitment to non-commitment, given Obama’s ability to abruptly alter his policy, his own position, his campaigns position, and his “decisions.”  It is this willingness to change when confronted with resistance, any resistance, that makes Obama dangerous to America.   

The Obamidens will have to come to terms with these simple facts.  Obama has less experience than the Republican VP.  And every day it becomes clearer that he has even less experience than even he himself could have ever imagined.  And everyone who supports Obama, every candidate who tells us that he is the man to move us forward, every democrat who ignores his inexperience, his radical past, and his ultra-liberal policies, is complicit in a charade designed to fool America into investing it’s future, and its security, to a man who has no experience taking a stand on anything that did not at first advance the career of Barack Obama.