Read it carefully and read it all. I caught this on podcast during the morning run, and should have figured that one of my favorite analysis programs did so well. The punditocracy this week was just really poor on the Palin pick, and nearly all the responses said so much more about the analyst than about Governor Palin. Quite revealing, really–KSH
A very good comparison of two candidates [url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/sarah_palin_vs_barack_obama.html]here[/url]. A sample:
[b]Political experience[/b]
[b]Obama:[/b] Worked his way to the top by cultivating, pandering to and stroking the most powerful interest groups in the all-pervasive Chicago political machine, ensuring his views were aligned with the power brokers there.
[b]Palin:[/b] Worked her way to the top by challenging, attacking and actively undermining the Republican party establishment in her native Alaska. She ran against incumbent Republicans as a candidate willing and able to clean the Augean Stables of her state’s government.
#1, I’d encourage you to pay a little more attention to Obama’s work in Chicago and what he did for so many communities there. He brought hope to communities that had lost it. If you can, take a stroll through some of those communities, and you’ll be hard pressed to argue that he doesn’t know how to lead.
Are you speaking, #2, of the housing project where he “organized” the residents regarding asbestos…possibly his only accomplishment? As I recall, that project was condemned and now sits vacant, its role as stepping stone having passed. Or am I in error?
That Obama was, and is, part of the Daley-Stroger-Jones machine is, quite frankly, irrefutable. He was a nobody before Emil Jones let him be somebody and he’s repaid then favors many times over to that machine. Ever hear of Todd Stroger?
Palin and her husband will have their work cut out just looking after 5 kids, one less than a year old with downs syndrome and one with a teen pregnancy. I sure hope Mr Palin quits his day job because he’s going to be mighty busy at home.
#1, you’re sounding like you think Obama’s just an average kid with good speech writers. Well he’s evidently much more than that as evidenced by running and winning a primary campaign against perhaps the most formidable opponent (in resources and talent) that America has seen in many years.
It was a good interview, capped by the following observation:
[blockquote] But, you know, this is a country which is so unhappy with politics. This is what happens. People without much experience rise to the top. It’s kind of like generals in wartime.[/blockquote]
Which is an observation I’ve posted around in other threads. People are quite sick of the Stevens-Byrd “axis of weasels”.
[blockquote]#1, you’re sounding like you think Obama’s just an average kid with good speech writers. [/blockquote]
Not at all. I think he’s a machine pol who does what he’s told and reaps the rewards. He’s no more about “hope and change” than I’m Lincoln’s grandfather.