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To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 9:47:54 AM
From: jlallen	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

If Obambi is...she certainly is....

To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 9:49:31 AM
From: Bill	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Every governor is more qualified than any senator. Especially governors with 85% approval ratings.

To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 9:58:50 AM
From: tonto	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Anyone who believes that Obama or McCain should be our choices for President...need to study the issues more and their plans.

To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 11:41:22 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

I think with 4 yrs experience as VP she will be as qualified as 'bam will be when he gets 4 yrs experience at anything at the executive level.

To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 12:53:46 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

A hell of a lot more qualified than Obama - she's actually accomplished a lot more.

To: PartyTime who wrote (142171)	10/21/2008 12:57:56 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

SOWELL: Record vs. rhetoric Thomas Sowell Tuesday, October 21, 200 Apparently something about Sarah Palin causes some people to think of her as either the best or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media. The issue raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if Sen. John McCain were elected. But Sen. Barack Obama has even less experience- none in an executive capacity - and his would itself be the heartbeat of the presidency if he were elected. Sarah Palin's record is on the record, while whole years of Barack Obama's life are engulfed in fog, and he has had to explain away one after another of the astounding and vile people he has not merely "associated" with but has had political alliances with, and to whom he has directed the taxpayers' money and other money. Sarah Palin has had executive experience - and the White House is the executive branch of government. We don't have to judge her by her rhetoric because she has a record. We don't know what Barack Obama will actually do because he has actually done very little for which he was personally accountable. Even as a state legislator, he voted "present" innumerable times instead of taking a stand one way or the other on tough issues. "Clean up the mess in Washington"? He was part of the mess in Chicago and lined up with the Daley machine against reformers. He is also part of the mess in Washington, not only with numerous earmarks, but also as the Senate's second largest recipient of money from Fannie Mae, and someone whose campaign has this year sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, who was at the heart of the subprime crisis. Why then the enthusiasm for Mr. Obama and the hostility to Sarah Palin in the media? One reason of course is that Mr. Obama is ideologically much closer to the views of the media than is Mrs. Palin. But there is more than that. There are other conservative politicians who do not evoke such anger, spite and hate. Sarah Palin is the one real outsider among the four candidates for the presidency and vice presidency on the Republican and Democratic tickets. Her whole career has been spent outside the Washington Beltway. More than that, her whole life has been outside the realm familiar to the intelligentsia of the media. She didn't go to the big-name colleges and imbibe the heady atmosphere that leaves so many feeling they are special folks. She doesn't talk the way they talk or think the way they think. Worse yet, from the media's perspective, Sarah Palin does not seek their Good Housekeeping seal of approval. Much is made of Sen. Joe Biden's "experience." But Frederick the Great said that experience matters only when valid conclusions are drawn from it. Mr. Biden's "experience" has been a long history of being on the wrong side of issue after issue in foreign policy. He was one of those senators who voted to pull the plug on financial aid to South Vietnam, which was still defending itself from communist invaders after the pullout of American troops. Mr. Biden opposed Ronald Reagan's military buildup that helped win the Cold War. He opposed the surge in Iraq last year. Sarah Palin will not be ready to become president of the United States on the first day she and John McCain take office. Nobody is. But being vice president is a job that can allow a lot of time for studying, and everything about Mrs. Palin's career says she is a bright gal with her head on straight. The country needs that far more than it needs people with glib answers to media "gotcha" questions. Whatever the shortcomings of John McCain and Sarah Palin, they are people whose values are the values of this nation, whose loyalty and dedication to this country's fundamental institutions are beyond question because they have not spent decades working with people who hate America. Nor are they people whose judgments have been proved wrong consistently during decades of Beltway "experience." Thomas Sowell is a nationally syndicated columnist.