Nothin' beats a PTA mom!

Josh sez:

Sadly Nuts:
When asked about criticisms of Sarah Palin's readiness to serve as president, McCain responded:
"If they want to go down that route, in all candor, she has far, far more experience than Senator Obama does."
Set aside the bravado. Can McCain possibly believe that? And if he does, what are we supposed to think of his own fitness to serve? Sen. Obama is certainly new on the national scene. But he's serving his fourth year in the US senate. He's run a successful national primary campaign. He's deeply versed on all the relevant policy issues. Palin has been the governor of one of the smallest states in the country (by pop.) for 18 months. As recently as 2006, she said she hadn't focused enough on Iraq to have an opinion one way or another about the surge. Even now, her off-hand comments about Iraq are completely at odds with Sen. McCain's.
Getting into a discussion about the relative qualifications of the two individuals is too silly to waste time on. But it says a lot about McCain that he says it.

Barack Obama has been in the national spotlight since his campaign against wackjob Alan Keyes for Senate in 2004. He has written several bestselling books placing him in a national spotlight. He gave a keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention ... in the national spotlight. He has been in the Senate addressing national and world issues. He participated in and won one of the longest primary campaigns ever, against one of the strongest political machines ever in the Clintons. He has done hundreds of national interviews, and participated in dozens of debates. Then there are his many years of experience prior to all of this as a community organizer and leader, and as a member of the Illinois legislature.

His experience in days, weeks, months and years may be relatively shorter than most of the other presidential candidates, but it would be wrong to say he is inexperienced.

And today John McCain said his VP pick, Sarah Palin, has "far more" experience (ie: executive experience) than Barack Obama. He not only went back to her time as Mayor of a small town, but he also brought up her experience as a leader of the PTA. Wow!

John McCain is corrupted beyond any hope of redemption. Or he is certifiably insane. Actually, both of these statements are true.
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