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When I read things like this:

Barack Obama contends that he is more experienced in executive matters than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin because he has managed his presidential campaign for the past 18 months.

Ummmm….ooookaaayyyy. So….running for president, gives you more experience, and better qualifies you for the job of president, than running a state qualifies you for the mostly ‘wait and see if he dies’ position of vice-president? I have to wonder just how nervous is the camp of  Barack Hussein Obama that McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate? Seriously, Does B.O. really expect anyone but the most loyal kool aid drinkers to actually believe that running a presidential campaign gives one more executive experience that running the largest, most wealthy state in the Union? Puh-leeeze.

“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve 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,”

For his illustration, even though she is the governor of the entire state, he talks about the size of her small home town of Wasilla, mentioning it has only 50 or so employees, and a small budget. Claiming that his campaign has more employees, and burns through three times the annual budget of Wasilla in a month.

Thinking about this leads me down a whole other line of thought. And that thought is ignorance. Like many people, B.O. comes of as completely ignorant of the Land of the Midnight Sun. I remember when I was living up in Alaska, and my mother was trying to send a package, some birthday gifts for the kids or something…anyway, the guy at the post office gave her a stack of forms to fill out. She asked why she had to fill these out, and he replied that they are required for any packages going to foreign countries. Um…ok, right.

My strong suspicion is that B.O. has never been to Alaska, and if so, has probably been only to Anchorage, and even then, probably didn’t travel more than 10 miles from the Airport.

Palin’s acceptance speech was incredible. I know of at least two die-hard Hillary fans who, after watching Palin’s speech, have proclaimed they will vote for McCain over B.O. because of Palin. Personally, I like her. She’s smart, witty, tough, and fairly easy on the eyes. Plus, I like the remark about the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom being lipstick.

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