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this previous thread, I pointed out the Obama/Biden campaign's initial response to McCain Vice-Presidential pick...I even pointed out their refusal to acknowledge she's a governor and instead mocked her for previously being a smalltown mayor...
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Barack Obama's campaign is blasting John McCain for putting "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
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My response was specific...
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Originally Posted by cnredd
Notice how they called her "the former mayor of a town of 9,000" and not even mention the fact that she's a current governor?...
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In an astounding display of "Let's pretend Palin's not a governor - Part 2", Obama again attacks Palin for for working her way up the ladder instead of commenting on her CURRENT position...A position that, as shown, DWARFS his "ability to manage large systems and to execute"....
She Is a Small-Town Mayor. She Is Not Repeat, Not the Governor of Alaska.
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In an interview of Barack Obama last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper mentioned Sarah Palin's experience as a small-town mayor and as governor of Alaska. Obama, hewing to his campaign's talking points, ignored the governor part:
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COOPER: And, Senator Obama, my final question your some of your Republican critics have said you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this. They in fact have said that Governor Palin has more executive experience, as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state of Alaska. What's your response?
OBAMA: Well, you know, my understanding is, is that Governor Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We have got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month.
So, I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute, I think, has been made clear over the last couple of years. And, certainly, in terms of the legislation that I passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina of how we handle emergency management, the fact that many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place as we speak, I think, indicates the degree to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.
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Just for the record, Alaska's FY2008 operating budget is $11.2 billion, and the state employs approximately 15,000 people. Those certainly aren't huge numbers in federal terms, but they're a good bit bigger than the Obama campaign.
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Just the fact that Obama is comparing his campaign workers to governmnt employees is pretentious enough, but (once again) neglecting to acknowlege her governorship and tut-tutting her smalltown mayor experience is another example of the elitism Obama says he doesn't portray...
09-02-2008, 11:26 AM
She Is a Small-Town Mayor. She Is Not Repeat, Not the Governor of Alaska.
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