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…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.