…..screeeech……
Ok. I can’t actually believe anyone would cite Guliani (maybe?;) ) as a retort and/or backup. IMHO the guy is an absolute Zero.

Twilight zone music playing….
Back to regularly scheduled debate.

Forte

Obama, by contrast, has only been in the Senate since January of ’05. According to GovTrack.us (a non-partisan site), a mere 2 bills he’s sponsored have been successfully enacted. Both were resolutions, one naming July 12, 2007 as “National Summer Learning Day” and the other honoring a late bishop of the Church of God. Not exactly my idea of a substantial legislative record.

As an executive, Gov. Palin was responsible for running an administration, balancing a budget, vetoing or signing legislation, and naming judicial appointees- all of which are relevant to being president regardless of the population size of the state she governed.

There was a great quote from the convention that I wish I could remember who said (Rudy Giuliani maybe?) about it being better for the VP to be mentored by the President than the other way around.

http://hormonecoloreddays.blogspot.com/2008/09/my-freudian-slip-is-showing.html

http://www.andrys.com/palin-kilkenny.html

Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

Religion, however, was not strictly a thread in Palin’s foreign policy. It was part of her energy proposals as well. Just prior to discussing Iraq, Alaska’s governor asked the audience to pray for another matter — a $30 billion national gas pipeline project that she wanted built in the state. “I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,” she said.

Something new seems to pop up every half hour!

I’m was a political science major and am a lawyer so I’ve studied our government with some care. I don’t understand the argument that Palin’s experience is somehow better preparation for the Presidency than Obama’s because she’s run a state and he has not.

Palin has run a very small state, in terms of population, for a very short period of time. Her entire political career started in 2002, if I remember correctly. And, if Mudflats is right, the entire population of Alaska is comparable to that of a small city (Memphis, TN).

Obama, on the other hand, is a Senator. He has been actively addressing the issues that affect our federal government. Those are not the same issues that are center stage in a small state.

And, it’s the legislature branch of government that debates the issues, set our policies and writes the laws that the executive branch only executes. Therefore, I would think Obama has more direct experience from his time in the Senate with the very issues facing the next president than Palin.

Finally, I just have to note that McCain has never been a governor. Rather, he is a Senator, and I doubt he would argue that he is not completely qualified to be President
based on that experience.

I think that experience is less relevant with the loss of bipartisanship. If you aren’t allowed to compromise by your party, then what use is thinking for yourself? Plus, it is hard to get a very experienced politician of child-bearing age, because the career path is fairly long.

The Democratic strategists are taking the totally wrong approach to criticizing Mrs. Palin. What they should be emphasizing is her policy positions. She’s a social conservative who’s anti-abortion and pro-gun. Hillary’s supporters therefore have no reason to want to vote for her on the ticket.