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by Hittokiri_korru from The Hidden Villiage

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 Throughout this whole campaign I hear this and that about Obama being inexperienced and this and that about democrats doing this and saying that simply for votes.

 Well how ironic is it that now John McCain picks a lady who has been a mayor of a town for a couple of years and governor of one of the least populace states for only a short time. The big irony here is that you know the only reason McCain picked her was for the Hillary Clinton votes, surely not for her grand level of experience.
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Hacksaw read my blog view my photos
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:09 PM

I don’t know that, because Governor Palin already has 16 years in elected office, as well the only gubernatorial experience on either ticket, as well a proven track record of cutting wasteful spending, and battling corruption even in her own Party.

The fact is, she’s more qualified to be President then either Obama or Biden, and she’s not even running for that job and will make a fine Vice President, and possibly President someday as well.

Hittokiri_korru read my blog view my photos
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:22 PM

I must've misheard something I thought she was elected Mayor in 2006 but looking it up it says 1996, normally I wouldn't give mayor of an city, partucularly one with less than 10,000 much credit, but this was in Alaska so it had to be a pretty rough job. Yes she has 16 years if you count city council, but I really wouldn't count that much. Factoring the number of cities there are plus the number of people on any one cities council there are potentially a few million people who could boast that same inexperiences.

I still stand by what I said about why McCain picked her.

polarbear_88 read my blog view my photos
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:30 PM

She's even worse in the experience department than Obama. Whoopee!! She was the mayor of some s--- town in Alaska then the governor for about a year or two. Obama has been the senator from Illinois, a much more prominent and populated state than Alaska. Plus Obama has a history of working to help the middle class/poor in the community. That gives him extra points over the nobody chosen by McCain.

polarbear_88 read my blog view my photos
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:33 PM

Let's see, Sarah Palin has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and minored in political science at the University of Idaho.

Barack Obama went to Columbia University and majored in political science as well as international relations and worked in New York for several years. Then Barack went back to school, this time at Harvard Law School. While at Harvard he was chosen to be an editor in the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year. In his second year he was elected the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. He then graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor (law degree). Also around that same time Obama wrote his book "Dreams from My Father" and later taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Kalayna read my blog
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:36 PM

maybe Sen. Mc Caun icked her as his VP because she is a good shot with a gun! Remember VP cheney didn't do so well in that

Hittokiri_korru read my blog view my photos
Aug 29, 2008 | 10:44 PM

LOL Kalayna

Hacksaw read my blog view my photos
Aug 30, 2008 | 12:23 AM

If I’m looking for someone to lecture about law, bigots, or terrorist friends, I’d look to Obama over Palin but if I’m looking for someone to back up our very qualified candidate for President, then the rising star of the GOP is a pretty good choice.

By the time Obama was first stepping into his job as an Illinois State Senator, Palin was already in her 2nd elected office,(Mayor)and this was all before she ever became the Governor of Alaska.

With her experience in running a business, followed by successful election to 3 different jobs, she is imminently more qualified to serve as the Vice President than Obama is to serve as President.

TRUTHGUYSinCLE read my blog view my photos
Aug 30, 2008 | 12:30 AM

HITTO boy, he figured that since Democrats think Obama has a resume, he would find anyone who has more experience than Obama which includes most elected officials. Most of Obama supporters, especially those who run companies, hollywood studios, etc cant explain they would never hire ANY inexperienced person to run their company but it is ok to let Obama run the largest entity in the world. Palin is more qualified than Obama ever will be. Community organizer doesnt count on a resume.... Palin just won Mich, and Ohio for McCain.

Hittokiri_korru read my blog view my photos
Aug 30, 2008 | 1:00 AM

No, Obama doesn't have that much experience, but neither does Palin. But that's not why I'm voting for Obama. There is no job in the world that can prepare a person for presidency. What matters if the person can hold their head under stress and they have good ideas as well be able to apply them. I think that person is Obama not McCain. McCain could've been a senator since the very beginning of the American senate, but if he wants to give tax breaks to big business instead of the middle class than he still isn't the person to elect.

Hacksaw read my blog view my photos
Aug 30, 2008 | 3:30 AM

The big difference is that Palin (with prior governing experience) is running for Vice President where she would get some good “on the job training” before she is ever expected to assume the Presidency while Obama (with no governing experience at all) is running for the Presidency in which he would have to hit the ground running from Day 1, and he’s not up to it!

whiteneckburned read my blog
Aug 30, 2008 | 7:46 AM

Does some not like the fact she is woman? She will do fine for four years.

Hittokiri_korru read my blog view my photos
Aug 30, 2008 | 12:08 PM

We can't say for sure if somebody is up to it or not until it happens. It's only empty speculation for now because "I just don't trust him" as some people have said.

SINGLEBUTMARRIED read my blog
Aug 30, 2008 | 3:33 PM

I think the choice was all for show to get everybody talking and thinking,,,which was accomplished..thanks mccain.

mommiegrandma read my blog view my photos
Aug 31, 2008 | 1:38 AM

Live on the ground in Wasilla, Alaska, where Palin used to be mayor
Wasilla is a sleepy town, population about 9,000, and it's the largest city in the borough (the Alaskan equivalent of counties). It's a bedroom community for Anchorage, with 30% of the workforce commuting to Anchorage, and without a real industry of its own.
The biggest employer in town are a number of big-box retailers: Walmart, Fred Meyers, Target, Sears, and Carrs (Safeway). These retailers have a regional draw, as it's the biggest town south of Fairbanks (315 miles to the north), so there's probably more like 20-30k people that drive to these stores for their shopping needs.

The largest employer in the region is Mat-su Regional Hospital, employing about 700 people (including my dad), but it's located outside the city limits.

There's one main drag, the Parks highway (which goes from Anchorage to Fairbanks), which is just loaded with these big box and other chain retailers & restaurants. It's not quite Anytown, USA: there are a number of Alaska-specific businesses that address the needs of the hunting, fishing, and building of cabins in the middle of Nowhere, AK.

In the summer, both out-of-town tourists and Alaskan often stock up on their way through. The Parks Highway seems like just a long line of motorhomes, campers, boats trailers and four wheelers.

One other industry has been home construction. The population has about doubled over the past 10 years, thanks mostly to the construction of a large number of cookie-cutter subdivisions. This involves a developer buying like 100 a

mommiegrandma read my blog view my photos
Aug 31, 2008 | 1:44 AM

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acres, clear-cutting it, and building any of the four different models they have chosen.

During Mrs. Palin's time on the City Council and as Mayor, most of the chain retailers went into the area. When I was living in Anchorage in the 80's and early 90's, we'd drive through Wasilla all the time, and there were no big-box stores then besides the Fred Meyers and Carrs (which, at that point, hadn't been bought by Safeway yet). One angle worth pursuing is that her only legacy here, and the most visible change, is the construction of all of these stores and the loss of identity that has caused.

The biggest topics of conversation are the weather and which chain retailer is going in next. Next year, a Walmart pharmacy and a Walgreens will be going in. Whee!

Overheard in town: "Did you hear the news today?" "Yeah... but she's not ready". That echoes my sentiment. A political career that is two years outside of Wasilla is just paper-thin.

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mommiegrandma read my blog view my photos
Aug 31, 2008 | 1:46 AM

City budget for Wasilla City $9,385,984. This is the budget for the city with 9,000 residents that Palin was the mayor.

mommiegrandma read my blog view my photos
Aug 31, 2008 | 3:52 AM

population for Alaska approximately 651,000

Hacksaw read my blog view my photos
Aug 31, 2008 | 8:41 PM

It’s hard to criticize Governor Palin’s leadership experience because she’s the only candidate on either ticket who has governed in any way, so you lefties want to slam Alaska & the town where she way Mayor for having too few people, as if she could help that….

It’s a desperation move that will not play well in small towns across America, exactly the kind of people who Obama was losing to Hillary all throughout the primaries and continuing to insult them like he did with his elitist “bitter” comments will not do him any favors in November…..

mommiegrandma read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 1:18 PM

The town she governed had 50 employees and a $12 million dollar buget, with $9 million actually going to her city.

I have managed an office with 75 employees and managed the budget, made policies, implemented policies, worked with legislatures. I have a degree in Business Administration, 2 children, active in the community, served on Boards, was President of several Boards and Organizations, team mother, cheerleader coach for midget football. so I guess I'm qualified to run for President.

The Obama campaign is a National Campaign with offices in all states, he is supervising a staff of 10 times more employees and a budget 10 times the size of her budget and it has been noted that his campaign is the best run ever in the history of this country. Not to mention he was Executive Director of several organizations before getting into politic. Therefore he has executive experience.

dprin339 read my blog view my photos
Sep 2, 2008 | 2:11 PM

"I have managed an office with 75 employees and managed the budget, made policies, implemented policies, worked with legislatures. I have a degree in Business Administration," really?

while you were the big shot, were you constantly whining at the bosses to give you & your people more of their profits? were you calling them "greedy bastards" behind their backs? were you advocating that THEY give their "ridiculous" profits to the "poor"?

who do you think you are kidding medea? please!

someone with THAT much experience & THAT much education wouldn't use the ghetto language you do nor would they be advocating the whole "robin hood" crappppola

and while you did all this incredible stuff you owned your own business as well? did you give away YOUR business profits to the poor?

ugh! of course, you can be anyone you WANT to be on the internet...........LMAO keep puffing yourself up there medea, no one believes it but you.

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