Originally Posted by
dubcac
What has Barack Obama ever done? She's done way more than he ever has.
First question, why are we comparing VP candidate to Presidental candidate? I'll entertain you, but I suggest we move experience debates to VP to VP, Pres to Pres.
Anyways, I'd consider Barack's experience more useful for president than hers.
Her experience:
Running a town without debt into 22 millions dollars of debt, and they still don't have sewage treatment? Check
Political appointee for an oil and gas commission, but no initiatives to prove from it? Check.
Gov of a state with less people than the 30 mile radius surrounding my house? Check
"Opposed" pork barrel projects, yet kept all the federal money from them? Check
The most useful thing she's done is prove that abstinence-only sex ed is effectively worthless.
Obama's experience:
Constitutional law lecturer? Check
Worked to register 150,000 voters and to help with job training in destitute communities? Check
Worked at a Civil Rights law firm? Check
Formed nonprofits to help youth? Check
Worked on the board of directors for Annenberg and Joyce foundations? Check
Was smart about the Iraq war? Check
Originally Posted by Obama in 2002
"Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.... The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him. But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors...and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. So for those of us who seek a more just and secure world for our children, let us send a clear message to the president."
And if I hear that "executive experience" excuse again, I'd like to remind you that she also has more "executive experience" than McCain as well.