Hittokiri's Hara-Kiri Forum

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.

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.

LOL Kalayna

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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…..

"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.