being mad as I was.
Perhaps if she got a few more letters, she would think harder the next time she wants to imply certain things, as well as when she's up on MSNBC running her mouth.
Dear Ms. Freeland,
In reading your article this morning, and watching you on MSNBC's morning Joe, I am truly disappointed at your findings in comparing the resumes of Sen. Obama and Gov. Palin. You state that "running a state, no matter how sparsely populated, is a bigger executive job than being a senator.", and although technically true, I find your article troubling. You see, Sen. Obama's resume does not simply consist of his 3.5 years in the Senate, and based on this particular omission, your analysis becomes moot.
18 years ago, Obama was elected President of the Harvard Law Review, an office that required executive experience to get the job done. The Presidency of the Harvard Law Review is not simply a title, meaning, the President actually has work that he/she does. Others who were elected to this executive post include Supreme Court Justices Edward Sanford, Felix Frankfurter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox.
Although the world was his oyster after graduating from Harvard, Barack Obama turned down prestigious offers, and instead managed Project Vote in Chicago in 1993. That year, via his executive and organizing skills, Barack was seen as key in putting a Democratic Senator into the senate, Sen. Mosley-Braun (a woman). That's call results due to skills.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/Barack Obama was also a State Senator for 8 years, something that many such as yourself avoid mentioning as you discuss his "thin resume". Again, he was elected to that office, and his district's constituents numbered in the hundreds of thousands. He drafted laws and passed legislation that effected the nearly 13 million citizens who reside in the state of Illinois.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.htmlBeyond that, Barack Obama has also been a law professor at the University of Chicago, and a civil rights attorney. Both jobs provided much experience and the requirement of a fluent working knowledge of our constitution and a thorough understanding of how government works. Those skills, especially now, should be required to anyone seeking the highest office in the land.
Let us not forget that Barack Obama is the author of 2 best selling books, which has earned him millions and he writes his own speeches, one which electrified the nation 4 years ago.
And so, in addition to Barack Obama being elected as a United State Senator some 3.5 years ago, from the 5th most populous state in the Nation, his resume is full of skills that will be more useful to the American people than shooting a moose, or being the mayor of a town of 7,000 people.
You appear to be willing to give Barack Obama very little credit, and I would have to ask why that would be? For you to conveniently ignore that Barack Obama started a presidential campaign from scratch some 19 months ago, and in so doing, created the best ran political organization our history has ever witnessed, shattering records after records is most unforgivable.
For nearly two years, using vision, innovation, technology, intelligence, endurance, tactical genius, and a strong macro management style, Barack Obama has shown us all exactly what his executive skills are. He defeated a well oiled political national machine in the process, one that the Republicans have yet to defeat (not from lack of trying).
You mentioned sexism as it might have applied to Ms. Clinton and Ms. Palen, but you blindly turn your eye to the race card that to this day is played against Obama by every pundit and commentator that has beenn so eager to mention the "Hard working White people" of the rust belt that Obama isn't "closing the deal" on. For you to assume that it would be of greater advantage to run Black (12% of the population) as opposed to female (54% of the population) is really attempting to sell a bridge to nowhere. As a 25 year long self employed woman who has raised two female children, I resent the implication made in your article, and found your appearance on Morning Joe even more grating.
I have already had to suffer through the constant 24/7 media hype promoting chaos using sexism during the entire run up to the final day of the Democratic Convention, and now it appears to be something that is to be built upon, because that is the only thing your article promotes.
For you not to acknowledge Barack Obama's abilities which were in full display by the end of that Democratic convention, including his executive acumen and skills at being a unifyer is mistifying to me.
I realize this letter is long, but you really are the kind of individual that will hinder the progress of my own two daughters, and that is something that I can't let "slide". You are indeed playing the Sexism Card before the deck is even set down on the table. Honesty and a true analysis is what I expect from a writer, male or female, and anything short of that is unhelpful. The honest bottomline is that Barack Obama is a once in a lifetime natural statesmen and leader who has accumulated the skill set that counts. To even imply that Gov. Palin comes close is nothing more than a Republican talking point, period. I understand why they might use it, but I am quite surprised that you would go for that angle as well.
It is unfortunate that your article really said much more about you than anything that could ever be said about Barack Obama. You are using sexism as a crutch, and really aren't being fair about much of anyting to arrive at the conclusions that you wrote and published for all to read. How sad indeed.
Respectfully,
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