What McCain Once Said About Mayors And Governors Experience
Further proof that the outrage and seemingly passionate beliefs in politics often need to be taken with grains of salt enough to create a new Dead Sea:
On the other hand, the case can be made also that in primary mode McCain wasn’t being fair to governors. In fact, a Democratic governor has now come to GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s defense in terms of her experience, warning Democrats they need to drop this line of attack:
Gov. Rod Blagojevich backs Illinois’ Barack Obama, but he said Thursday that it is a mistake for fellow Democrats to discount GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s experience as Alaska governor.
The executive job of governor is like the presidency because the officeholder has to make decisions, Blagojevich said. Lawmakers do different things like “debate and … pass their bills back and forth,” he said.
Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, was a state senator before being elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois.
“But governors make decisions and I think it’s a tactical mistake for the Democrats to question Gov. Palin’s experience when she’s been a governor of a state,” Blagojevich said on WGN-AM’s “Spike O’Dell Show.”
The bottom line: the argument can be made on boths sides. And McCain has MADE the argument on both sides…
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8 Responses to “What McCain Once Said About Mayors And Governors Experience”
Speaking of governors, apparently there are many who feel they are being ignored when they try to give advice to the Obama campaign:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/usel…
I believe this article is a must read for Obama supporters if they want a grasp of some of the less reported on, but crucial dynamics of this race.
My problem with Palin is not a “lack of experience”. It is an apparent utter dearth of interest or expression in her background regarding the overarching issues of our day.
Obama was right about the Iraq war. He was right about the need to shift focus and troops to Afghanistan. He was wrong about the surge. On balance, he was expressed views for years on foreign policy and international relations and I mostly, but not entirely, agree with him.
In contrast, Palin said she heard about the surge on TV. She neither spoke, wrote, nor talked about international relations, efforts against terrorism, et c. That is fine within the confines of Alaska, not so great on a national stage. Jindal would have been a far more credible and qualified choice for young arch conservative to me.
At the end of the day, interest in banning books, using a governmental office to pressure officials on personal matters, hiring high school buddies, attacking rivals once in office … all this tells me she would be a complete disaster in office, regardless of her total previous lack of interest in any foreign policy related matter.
In case anyone is waiting for one of Joe’s poll updates, here’s a summary.
Red is getting redder.
Blue is disappearing.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/ob…
(If you can’t count on Minnesota, you’ve got a big problem)
Blago is hardly qualified to speak about experience in governing, unless he is talking about how to be stupid, useless, or corrupt. If looking into Palin's history and the hijinks of Alaska republicans turns your stomach, don't read about Illinios politics. We put our previous gov (a republican) in jail after he left office. With any luck we can get him Blago for a roommate soon.
Another governorial “metaphor” for the current national scene: John Engler (R) Michigan (my home state) was in office for 12 years up until 2003. He inherited a healthy state and left it a mess by the time he was done. We've been trying to dig out since. Sound like a familiar story?
Glichin,
Exactly. It's the incuriosity that's telling.
Jwest,
Cling to outlier polls in Minnesota all you want. That state is safe for Obama. The RNC was just held there, for crying out loud. Look at the Iowa poll for the Des Moines Register: Obama leads by 12 (this is the poll that nailed the primary to the tenth of a percent). You think Obama leads Iowa by 12 but is tied in Minnesota?
Friends, bloggers, countrymen. Trust ye not he who speaketh with forked tongue.
The Straight Talk Express has been derailed and is lying in a dusty ditch somewhere outside of Billings, Montana.
The punctuation in the headline is incorrect. It should read:
“What McCain Once Said About Mayors' And Governors' Experience”
Correct use of the apostrophe is increasingly rare.