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Pure stupidity.
That is why he can’t say it with a straight face.
WHat kills me is given Democrat Candidate X, anyone with any objectivity wouldn’t give Obama a glance as a VP pick. No experience, the ‘most liberal’ senator, and with his associations he wouldn’t pass the vetting. His candidacy is the triumph of style over substance. More so than Bubba’s was.
Another example of the “ergotism” of the left.
uh…ummmm…uh…ummm…no I never said that….change you can believe in….don’t question my patriotism (to marxism that is), leave michelle alone….
yep great campaign…now add buffoon biden to the mix…I have such a hot wife…no I didn’t have hair plugs…
here’s change I can believe in…NO OBAMA in “OUR HOUSE” and a Congress that actually listens and works for “We The People”!!!
Awesome!!
This just underscores how great of a pick this was for McCain – he’s reduced Obama to defending his experience against McCain’s running mate. This totally diminishes him, as it makes him look inexperienced against both Biden and against McCain himself.
Oblabber was a “community organizer.”
I remain very unimpressed.
Oh, Joe Biden is from Scranton.
How did this doofus get this far? Hillary must still be shaking her head.
But on the other hand, you have to give him credit for remaining married to Li’l Mickey. Score one for D’ohbama.
The Dems have Larry & Moe, now all they need is a Curly.
Add to all of this the fact that Obama was never vetted.
I disagree. Obama has proven to be a very competent executive. His campaign ran circles around the Clinton campaign even she started with half the party behind her. His VP pick was prudent and well vetted. His position statements have been detailed, realistic, and consistent (and, alas, liberal).
McCain’s campaign almost collapsed and was only rescued by the staggering unacceptability of the other candidates (Romney, Huckabee, puhleeeze). His VP choice was barely vetted and looks like a disaster. His position statements have meager, inconsistent (cut taxes, balance the budget, spend more on defense). He’s lurching to the right.
I don’t think his experience as a community agitator will serve him well…unless he’s planning to use the IRS to shake down “da man.”
Michelle, Please Please Please bring to light the fact that Obama PAYS HIS FEMALE CAMPAIGN WORKERS LESS THAN THE MALE WORKERS.
Also, people need to be educated about why McCain voted against equal pay. The Dems are not being hit back on this charge.
What was that movie? “Being There”? With Peter Sellers playing a simple-minded gardener that somehow gets mistaken for a great political genius. Sounds like the Dems have found their gardener.
Why is Obama comparing himself to Palin? He’s running for president not vice president. Is it because he’s afraid of comparing his experience to McCain? If this is the best he’s got, he’s toast.
What an idiot. I wish this could be highlighted on mainstream media, particularly Ed’s responses. Unfortunately the masses will go on believing what they’re fed by the leftist media, because they’re too stupid to think for themselves and see what’s right in front of them plain as day.
His position statements have meager, inconsistent (cut taxes, balance the budget, spend more on defense).
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You right- concrete examples like “hope” and “change” haha
WHEN????
As the article stated, this manager handles that part of it. Face it LGM, Palin has vastly more experience than Obama.
Lol,
and Still the trolls bring up weak azs arguments trying to muffle the HUGE RALLY behind GOVERNOR PALIN.
Gte real and lay off the dope!
All one needs to compare experience is right here.
As stated by other’s above- WHAT THE HELL IS OBAMA THINKING. Him and his ilk have taken the bait since day one of the Palin pick. Who is advising this man? Alexrod should have told him immediately, don’t get into a resume battle with the VP pick, it will embarass you. If Obama has experience due to running his campaign. What was his experience the DAY BEFORE he started running his campaign?
I would be passed-out on the floor if you didn’t.
Running for the office of president does not make you qualified to be president. By that argument, McCain still wins since he ran in 2000. What else does Obama got?
I managed a Dunkin’ Donuts once. Does that count?
Please. Managing a campaign. Yeah, right. Real executive experience.
This is getting Hilarious!!!!!
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Keep tryin though trolls you’re crackin me up!
Man, I love the smell of liberal fear in the morning (and afternoon, too).
You’d better change your panties, lgm – they’re wet.
I heard Obambi try to answer the question and he deliberately ignored the fact that she is the governor and has a large budget and staff. And the C in C of almost 2,000 Nat’l Gaurdsmen. It was a pathetic attempt and I hope he keeps repeating it because he looks small and petty. Which is what he is compared to Sara Palin.
The real issue is not comparing Obama’s meager experience to the republican candidate for Vice President. The issue is comparing the experience of the democrat candidate for President with the republican candidate for President.
Obama does not equal McCain. Even when McCain was Obama’s age he had more experience in leadership and governing than Obama has!!
Oh.. that is classic. Hell.. forget Biden debating Palin… Obama and Palin should debate… she would mop the floor with him.
Like a very, very wise man once said: Governors run a government, Senators run a campaign.
If you’re saying that B. Hussein Obama is fit to run the country primarily because he’s got a good campaign, then I say, saying “Yes sir” to a campaign manager is not my idea of how to run a country.
Like AP pointed out, saying that running for an office qualifies one for that office validates Palin’s candidacy.
Brilliant point, Obama. Brilliant!
He makes speeches that somebody else wrote for him. He’s a complete embarrassment to himself and his party when he speaks extemporaneously.
Gotta love this photo of D’ohbama campaigning in West Texas.
Saying that Obama is ready because he’s campaigned to be president is like saying you’re qualified to be a chef at a restaurant just because you eat there alot.
lgm : thats the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard, saying he’s experienced enough to be president BECAUSE he ran for president !!!really W.T.F. ??
Die Hippie! That’s hilarious!
Nice LGM but it doesn’t wash. A campaign’s goal is singular, get our guy elected; the same cannot be said about running even a small town where varying constituencies have to be dealt with. And in this case I don’t mean constituencies like you run into in a campaign or even in a Senate office (i.e. liberal women voters vs. Catholic voters), but libraries vs. dog poop removal vs. fire departments vs. snow removal, you know stuff that most even non-politically active people actually care about. Now take that to the state level, and lets look at Vermont, where Governor Dean ruled err… led. He had to deal with similar issues on a macro level and was purported to be a political saint. Now turn an eye to Alaska, not a lot of people (but more than Vermont), and mostly forgotten, well until we need the oil. And speaking of oil, with energy prices a concern for most voters it might be nice to have someone that actually has a little experience in this realm. Say someone with experience dealing/negotiating with oil companies, or even someone that has regulated and faced down and beaten this big boogieman.
So in short, I don’t think he has a point, I think that he is someone that touts how he was made editor of his law review but never got a single article published in one, his only real claim to fame is writing about his favorite topic (of which book #3 is about to be released) himself.
Reprint for the mentally Disabled
Still trying to rain on the Parade….
They Know:
Their in trouble..
That were in charge now..
That the Palin BUMP is huge..
The RNC BUMP will actually be a BUMP..
The Math with, the base + more women + evangelicals = DOOM..
That they Pooped out at the DNC..
They know their VP pick is a Poor choice..
They know the NRA is BIG, POOF! GONE..
Some know that attacking Gov. Sarah is not wise..
They all need depends.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!
McCain/Palin 08′
Wah Dems, trolls and libtards.
Props to Anderson Cooper for asking the question. Cooper also noted to the reporter excitedly asking if Palin could be a mom and a veep that no one would think to say that about a man. Obama’s resume is sort of like when you go for your first job – Scout, Hall monitor, lawn mowing…nothing wrong with any of it, just thin from lack of experience.
I once ran to catch a train. Can I be president of AMTRAK now?
164 days in the Senate…
Bwaaa-hahahahahahaha!!!
Well, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Well he did walk a dog once…
The left may think she’s an oil shill, but they might be surprised if they looked at her record rather than her OBGYN chart…
Good catch – I undoubtedly overestimated him/her/it.
You mean like Hillary was because she was Bill’s wife?
I managed to make my breakfast this morning.
YAY! ME for Prezident!
Yes, I believe a poster here recently said that since they had lived in Europe they had more foreign policy experience. Feel free to keep the trains running on time.
Hey lgm, is that the whiff of fear coming from you? Your reposting of the DNC talking points is particularly on track. I knew that CTRL-V worked.
alohaguy: What you mean there is more to her than her and her daughters uterus? Couldn’t tell that from the news…
I have served in the active and reserve army (enlisted) for 14 years. Clearly I am qualified to be military dictator of the world.
Now that’s “change” we can believe in!
Clearly we should vote for obama because he has a penis and Palin does not. /sarcasm off.
You’ve found a channel with news?
Winning a Presidential nomination in the democrat party requires little more than being attractive to the lunatic fringe…. Like you, lgm…. Executive leadership has nothing to do with it.
Your nutroot swipe at Palin is also unfounded. She was thoroughly vetted. Better get your info from other places besides CNN and lefty blogs.
Oh, and Biden is a first class fool. How come that wasn’t picked up when he was “thoroughly” vetted?
I knew the democrats were dumb, but I didn’t think they’d fall for actually comparing their PRESIDENTIAL candidate to that of the VP candidate on the merits of readiness and experience.
All uterus all the time. Ultrasounds at 11:00!!!
Just for argument’s sake, let’s say Palin has as little or less experience than Obama. The liberal punditry (and even some conservatives) believe that McCain has abandoned the experience argument by selecting Palin. Why?
Isn’t an inexperienced presidential nominee far worse than an inexperienced veep nominee? I don’t care if Palin would be “a heartbeat away from the presidency” – Obama would be the president!
What – are we counting on Obama being assassinated and McCain having a heart attack? How perverse that we are giving more weight to the experience of Biden v. Palin than Obama v. McCain!
I believe that independent voters will recognize the difference. Every time Palin’s inexperience is criticized, it should cause greater harm to Obama.
Rasmussen, Gallup, CBS, American Research Group and Diageo/Hotline would respectfully disagree.
Better yet, be a good little lib. Take your poopy diaper and send it to DU. They’re stockpiling arguments for the GOP convention.
I found Geraldo and Shep reliving the glory days of Katrina while trying desperately to fabricate Gustav drama.
Does that count?
You’re right, Palin wins the office manager contest. So what? I believe it was Mike Dukakis who was taunted by the Republicans for saying that “this election isn’t about ideology, it’s about competence.” Same with this election. The fact that the right-wing extremist a heartbeat away from the presidency may be uber-competent (not that a year-and-change at the helm of Alaska is the vastest reservoir of experience one could imagine) provides no comfort for the majority of Americans who are sick of the Bush-McCain era. And, if she’ so competent, why not let her have a press conference to explain her secessionist tendencies, her lobbyists, and her flip-flopping on the Bridge to Nowhere?
There’s no indication that she has any foreign policy views, and what we know of her domestic policy views is disturbing. She may be president, our standards should be high.
Barak has vision, he has experience on the foreign policy committee, the thinks deeply and well about the issues that affect us and he has been tested by a grueling process. Palin was the second choice of one man seeking to meet a demographic quota. the fact that they’re keeping her under wraps proves that even McCain thinks she’s not ready for prime time.
As he often does, Michael Kinsley puts it well. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101553.html
BINGO. It’s a trap – I’m just wondering when it will be sprung. Why aren’t we hearing more conservative pundits making this point?!
…and he hasn’t stopped running in circles since. I’ll have to concede to Tink that D’ohbama is experienced at running in circles.
Grueling process?!? You mean being fawned over by a press who gladly sacrifice their journalistic integrity on the altar of Obama? That grueling process? If that’s a joke Bemused, it’s a bad one.
Coming from a Barack supporter, that is rich.
Do they email these talking points to you guys with orders to disseminate them word for word? Your argument was about as coherent as Obama’s reasons he is qualified to be president.
I did my own laundry , threatened to shoot my neighbor’s dog ( unleashed of course, they’re Democrats), look for work while limping because of a serious surgery, and drink Irish whiskey…. hell, Obammy couldn’t do that in a week of Sundays with help! I wanna be President!!!!!
That’s it Befuddled. Drink your
AZTkool-aid.Palin has more executive experience than the othe three combined. That and the rest of her story lead me to believe she’s the only one of the four with ANY qualifications to be president.
Thats kind of the point. When looking for a new office manager, you tend to want someone who has been an office manager…. DDDUUUHHH
Which is why ex-governors tend to make better presidents…..
Yeah, that got him real far.
For someone who is a VP candidate with supposedly “no experience”, the Obama campaign is spending an inordinate amount of time and energy worrying about Palin.
Telling…very telling.
lgm has evidently solved the age-old dilemma about “How to get a job without experience / How to get experience without a job.” It turns out that the act of applying for the job counts as “experience.” Recent college grads everywhere will be pleased to know this (their prospective employers, less so).
Furthermore, it says nothing complimentary about Hopenchange’s campaign that it came across the finish line first mainly because the other campaign stumbled out of the starting blocks; even less so when one realizes that Hillary still almost overtook Hopenchange in the end.
lgm has proven what Robert Heinlein once said:
“Man is not a rational animal; he’s a rationalizing animal.”
Very telling indeed.
Experince you can count on. Is this where Obama got his 57 state gaff from I wonder?
No, he was using his fingers to count.
Snort….now I do believe he has experience there.
LMAO!!!
From Blackfive:
It’s like one of the last scenes in ‘Team America’ in which the Alec Baldwin puppet starts repeating rubbish talking points
I assume that your next post, rather than being an empty sneer, will be a link to Sarah Palin’s extensive writings and speeches on, say Middle East policy?
Oh, I forgot: there aren’t any.
. I’m glad we agree. I’m sure that we also agree on the corolarry: that kind of thinking won’t work for McCain and “Executive Experience” Palin, either.
You have a pretty limited view of the President’s job, no?
HAHAHAHAHA!
17 uhs in one paragragh, that brutha sure can talk!
This is an excellent point.
#76 yep.
On September 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm,
And where are Obama’s? Oh I forgot: He only produced extensive writings about himself.
Good heavens, how many fingers does he have???
If Obama is as smart as he thinks he is, why has he now turned this into a discussion of his experience vs. his opponent’s veep?
Vanity of vanities
I wonder if in all that experience he notes that he voted for the Transportation Equity Act of 2005 which if i can remember correctly included the bridge to nowhere. Oh yea so did his running mate. And McCain as usual was against it. And our next V.P. killed it.
Yes, it certainly degrades his position, doesn’t it?
Well, he made it to ten fingers, then he lost count somewhere along the way.
What does this have to do with Bristol Palin’s pregnancy?
/sarc off
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air makes a great point, Obambi talks like Gov. Palin is still the Mayor of Wasilla and that RUNNING for President is the equivalent of gaining presidential experience.
Laughable.
Well BemusedLib, I have to admit I read the statement wrong. In quickly reading it, I thought Dukakis had said that competency is what counted.
Unfortunately, he didn’t have any competency to begin with. That was my initial point.
Invest in a dictionary. You won’t sound (quite) so stupid.
Wait a minute…you mean I can’t reply to your empty sneers with my own empty sneers?
That’s not very sportsmanlike to deny others the opportunity to respond in kind.
Henceforth, we should term the overusage of ‘uhs’ whist speaking as ‘obamaing’:
“…I couldn’t understand the gist of the speech due to the extensive obamaing…”
oops: whist=whilst.
consarnit.
Shouldn’t this practice be called “Obamics”?
Anyone notice that angry libs who talk about Palin’s current tenure as governor somehow downgrade it to one year?
I’m thinkin’ the general rule here is to round off to the higher number when it’s above the halfway mark, not the other way around. I guess they didn’t quite grasp that in elementary school.
Regardless, she’s been governor now for 18 months…not 12.