Comparing Alaska to Delaware is really stupid

[hfojvt]

Sure, they both have three electoral votes, but Biden has been a United States Senator. Remember the United States?

That means he voted on, and learned about, the Federal Budget. Not the Delaware budget, the Federal Budget.

That means he voted on, and learned about, the United States military and relations with all foreign countries. Not the Alaska National Guard.

Every policy that Presidents have proposed since Joe Biden was in the Senate, he voted on, and learned about. Presidents run the Government, based on the budget that Congress approves. To diminish Joe Biden or Barack Obama's experience to less than Sarah Palin's because they have never been President or Governor is ridiculous. As Senators they are seeing the Presidency about as close as you can get without being President or in the Cabinet. They are briefed on and evaluate and approve many of the programs that the President later executes.

Pretty obvious, I know, but it needed to be said. One person stated that by being an executive, Sarah Palin had made decisions that she had to personally answer for. Yet an elected Representative must make that decision on every vote. They decide, vote for, or vote against, and then answer for that from the voters.

Of course, I never thought experience was the thing that mattered the most anyway, but it's ridiculous to puff up the experience of a small town mayor and small state Governor of twenty months and tear down the experience of US Senators and State Senators. Even as a State Senator, Obama had to know more about the budget of Illinois than Sarah Palin had to know about Alaska as mayor of Wasilla.

[gateley]

1. Very well said! nt

[hfojvt]

2. it's so obvious, but I was listening to Gingrich talk about tiny Delaware

and then tonight that Hawaiian Governor talk about Alaska being bigger than 250 Delawares and I am thinking, wait, Obama and Biden were working on United States policy. And before the US Senate, Obama was working on policy for the State of Illinois. Seriously, does a town of 5,000 people have more employees than the hotel my brother manages? If I remember correctly, when I lived in a town of 5,000 the mayor's job was a part-time job (and the city manager did most of the work, just like in this city of 35,000 people I now live in.) Hey, according to the RNC, because I ran my own bookstore for seven years, I have more experience to be President than somebody who has been a Senator for over 30 years. :crazy:

[treestar]

3. And the physical size doesn't matter ; if Alaska only has 3 electoral

votes than population-wise, it is no bigger than Delaware!

And the governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, is just finishing her second term, so with 8 years as governor, she is "more qualified" than Palin!

It is bullshit that being a governor is so like being President. And * was a governor, and of a large population state, too! What did that get us?

[hfojvt]

7. did you see Jon Stewart's clip of Rove talking about Kaine

That was awesome. Rove said with only 3 years as Governor and a mayor of a puny city of 150,000 or so, he clearly was not qualified and picking him would just be for political reasons.

[treestar]

10. OMG, that's right! Are they hypocrites or what?

Let's see Rove spin himself out of that one!

[demobabe]

4. Oh, you're being silly.

EVERYBODY knows Delaware has more people in it than the entire state of Alaska.

;)

(great post, loved it, btw)

[hfojvt]

6. well Chicago certainly does

and Illinois only has twelve million more people than Alaska

[sandnsea]

5. The whole thing is stupid and insulting

I know what small town mayors do. Make sure developers can build anything they want and turn everything else over to the city administrator. This is absurd.

[hfojvt]

9. apparently she hired an administrator for her 2nd term

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

[JeffR]

8. Stop Making Sense!

What're you trying to do, spoil the GOP convention?