A Running Commentary

Despite all his empty platitudes about “hope” and “change”, Barrack Obama is just another liberal politician. Case in point: his response to Sarah Palin’s “lack of experience”.

In an attempt to cover his paltry executive experience beyond “community organizer” (whatever that means), Obama is pointing out that the town that Palin once mayored has a total staff of 50, while his election campaign has over 2,500. In other words, ‘I am qualified to be president by virtue of having run for president’. What? Somehow the process of finagling the Democrats’ primary system to defeat Hillary Clinton is qualification in itself? Only a run of the mill politician could say that with a straight face.

Of course what Obama fails to mention is that Palin now runs the entire state of Alaska and has been doing so for basically as long as Obama has been running for president, er, I mean, in the US Senate. Palin’s 2 years as governor give her more executive experience than ALL of the other major party candidates of either party, including John McCain. Joe Biden’s many years in office clearly establish that glad-handing and watering down legislation is hardly executive work.

But this election shouldn’t really be about experience. Outside of perhaps the V.P., there is no internship for being leader of the free world. Rather, it should be about judgment and wise political policy. Obama/Biden have demonstrated wrong-thinking on policy at home and abroad (did Biden finally give up his hair brained idea about partitioning Iraq? He certainly assured everyone the surge was bad idea and wouldn’t work…). An Obama administration would expand the power of the federal government and concentrate even more power in the hands of Washington insiders. That’s not change; it’s a deepening of the existing problem.

In contrast, the McCain/Palin ticket offers two people with PROVEN track records of actually making changes, not just talking about. Of actually fighting to reduces costs instead of just voting with the status quo (as Obama has done on the rare occasion he’s present for a vote). Now THAT should give you HOPE and perhaps even real change to believe in.