(a) Obama's got four years of experience in national politics, plus eight years prior to that as an Illinois State Senator, whereas Palin has less than two years experience as a state governor, before which she was mayor to a town of a mere eight thousand people, (b) what her parents did isn't of as much interest to me as what she has done, and what she's done (one-time sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, small-town city councilwoman and mayor, then a brief stint as governor) does not entirely inspire me as to her competence in national politics, and (c) VP actually does matter when you're talking about a candidate who's not only the most elderly ever to run for the office, but who we know is already prone to cancer.
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Date: 2008-08-30 03:42 am (UTC)(a) Obama's got four years of experience in national politics, plus eight years prior to that as an Illinois State Senator, whereas Palin has less than two years experience as a state governor, before which she was mayor to a town of a mere eight thousand people,
(b) what her parents did isn't of as much interest to me as what she has done, and what she's done (one-time sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, small-town city councilwoman and mayor, then a brief stint as governor) does not entirely inspire me as to her competence in national politics, and
(c) VP actually does matter when you're talking about a candidate who's not only the most elderly ever to run for the office, but who we know is already prone to cancer.
And that's putting aside all of the uproar over her dismissing widely respected Public Commissioner Monegan (allegedly because of his refusal to fire her sister's ex-husband) and replacing him with a reprimanded sexual harasser.