"Executive Experience"....who knew?

[CoffeeCat]

The new Republican meme is that Palin is more experienced than Barack Obama, because
she has "executive experience" and Obama has none.

So, Obama's experience as a United States Senator doesn't matter, because he
doesn't have "executive experience?"

Obama's authoring of unprecedented ethics reform, as a US Senator, doesn't matter, because he's never ran a small town in Alaska?

Obama's crafting of bipartisan legislation to prevent nuclear proliferation is meaningless because he's lacks a year
and a half experience running the most sparsely populated state in our nation?

His eight years as a State Senator? Sorry, that's not as prestigious as the "executive experience" one gains serving
on the PTA.

Being the first African American to serve as head of the Harvard Law Review? Serving as a law professor or a civil rights attorney? Those are all moot because Obama lacks the arduous "executive experience" of being city-council member.

What about being endorsed by several esteemed Kennedy family members, John Kerry, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi;
Bill Richardson, President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, Senator Hillary Clinton? What about the millions of Americans
who voted for Obama during his successful Presidential Primary campaign that spanned a year and a half and touched every state in this country?

Garnering the Democratic nomination for President and the millions of Americans who voted for Obama are trumped
by a few years of "executive experience"?

Furthermore, I don't recall John McCain ever garnering "executive experience." Was John McCain EVER a governor or the mayor of a small town?

Using Republican logic, John McCain must be unprepared for the Presidency.

[GarbagemanLB]

1. Whenever someone says that, I ask them if Palin is more qualified than John McCain.

That usually shuts them up.

[spanone]

2. i'm so tired of their lying fucking talking points.....

[Lucinda]

3. Its a good line of attack for them. This country elects Governors to POTUS

WAY more often than Senators, at least in the modern era, in part, because of that argument.

We need to reframe the discussion to counter it.

[spindrifter]

4. What about his experience as a community organizer??

From what I see, Palin's executive experience was primarily the my way or the highway type. Team player? No. (And the basketball experience isn't in the mix.)

[DJ13]

5. Enron became bankrupt being ran by people with executive experience

[goodgd_yall]

6. It doesn't matter

Read about Lyndon Baines Johnson and how his experience in the Senate enabled him to get things done. He could call on his Congress buddies to pressure them to work with him. Being in Congress teaches one how to make alliances and to negotiate. The connections you make can serve you well in the Presidency.

[underpants]

7. and McCain has how much "Executive experience" exactly?

:shrug:

[Captain Hilts]

8. NONE. nt