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Obama defends natural disaster experience
Obama defends natural disaster experience
Anderson Cooper interviewed Barack Obama Monday. (CNN) — Barack Obama defended his experience in dealing with natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, and took a swipe at newly minted GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. In an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing [...]
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Obama Compares Oranges to Apples
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Obama Compares his Campaign Now to the City of Wasilla 12 Years Ago Barack Obama on Anderson Cooper's 360 made the following statement comparing his experience and that of Governor Sarah Palin: In an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I ...

You Go, "O"!
Riehl World View — ... This guy is turning out to be a political moron. What did he do during Katrina, drive bottled water trucks to New Orleans? What a freaking joke. ...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ClareifiedWhy is Barack Obama lowering himself to be compared to Sarah Palin???? In an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of ...

Obama Takes Bait And Falls Into “I’m More Experienced Than Palin” Trap
Ankle Biting Pundits — ... Well, guess what. Obama fell into the trap, and here’s how he tried to explain why he’s more experienced than Palin. ...

Proving He’s Barry Insane: “I’m More Experienced Than Her”
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... her Mayorship and the size of Wasilla, instead of her Governorship and the State of Alaska. What a loser…these people don’t know what to do with the whole Sarah Palin pick. They’re like a boxer rocked back from a haymaker, and guess what? The KO comes next. Here’s a “Tale of the Tape“…I don’t think Barry Insane Obama wants to compare records, he should stick to concert promoting. From CNN: Barack Obama defended his experience in dealing with natural disasters, ...

Barack Obama Watch: I Have More Experience Than Sarah Palin
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Say what? In an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama responded. ...

An experience trap?
Ben Smith's Blog — ... “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” he said. ...

Obama Compares Oranges to Apples
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Obama Compares his Campaign Now to the City of Wasilla 12 Years Ago Barack Obama on Anderson Cooper's 360 made the following statement comparing his experience and that of Governor Sarah Palin: In an interview on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. “My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I ...

Our #2 vs. Their #1: Sarah Palin, Barack Obama and the Race For The Vice Presidency
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... But there are two very important distinctions between Palin and Obama. Their #1 = Our #2 The first one is obvious: Obama is running for President, not Vice President. Given the vast gulf between McCain's and Obama's resumes, it's clear that the issue of experience, accomplishment and qualification requires Obama to change the subject at every possible opportunity. And now he is changing it to compare himself to Sarah Palin. Obama has now gotten himself sucked in to comparing the Democrats' #1 to the Republicans' #2: “My ...

POLITICS: The Palin Chronicles, Part I
Baseball Crank — ... are two very important distinctions between Palin and Obama. A. Their #1 = Our #2 The first one is obvious: Obama is running for President, not Vice President. Given the vast gulf between McCain's and Obama's resumes, it's clear that the issue of experience, accomplishment and qualification requires Obama to change the subject at every possible opportunity. And now he is changing it to compare himself to Sarah Palin. Obama has now gotten himself sucked in to comparing the Democrats' #1 to the Republicans' #2: "My ...

Obama vs. Palin: “Are You Experienced?”
Roger L. Simon — ... I don’t know what Jimi Hendrix would say, but the debate du jour via Drudge (of course) is who is more experienced - Obama or Palin?  Obama insists he is, claiming that running a giant political campaign is just the background necessary to deal with natural disasters like hurricanes (real or hyped).  Maybe so. ...

Carol Platt Liebau: It's All About the "Experience"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Barack Obama thinks that his experience with natural disasters -- manifested by the "legislation I’ve passed in the past couple of years, post-Katrina” is greater than Governor Palin's. What legislation would that be, Senator? And keep in mind: Voting for a bill in the US Senate isn't the same as running a state or a town's natural disaster response teams. He also compared heading a campaign comprised of 2500 employees to Governor Palin's experience -- as a local mayor! Unfortunately for him, she's a governor with a budget about 20 times greater than his campaign's ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama: "My Campaignb Is Bigger Than Her Small Town."
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall BlogIncredible . Barack Obama snarls at the growing recognition that Governor Palin's executive experience --as governor and oil and gas commissioner as well as in local government--by noting that his experience running a campaign for 18 months is what makes him more qualified than Palin. Let's see. First of all, Obama is running for president not vice president. Second, did he think we wouldn't notice that all the time he's been running for president, Governor Palin has been running Alaska? Finally, Obama struts his management of 2,500 employees and a budget of $30 million-plus in ...

Hugh Hewitt: Obama: "My Campaignb Is Bigger Than Her Small Town."
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall BlogIncredible . Barack Obama snarls at the growing recognition that Governor Palin's executive experience --as governor and oil and gas commissioner as well as in local government--by noting that his experience running a campaign for 18 months is what makes him more qualified than Palin. Let's see. First of all, Obama is running for president not vice president. Second, did he think we wouldn't notice that all the time he's been running for president, Governor Palin has been running Alaska? Finally, Obama struts his management of 2,500 employees and a budget of $30 million-plus in ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... points out that Obama passed the 50 percent barrier for the first time today in both the Gallup daily tracking poll and the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, when independent voters and undecided voters who favor one party over the other are included. And responding to claims that Palin has more experience than the Democratic candidate, Obama compared the size of his campaign to the size of Wasilla to make clear his executive experience is on a larger scale than hers, Political Ticker reports.  ...

9/3: Criticizing The Criticism
Blogometer — ... : MCCAIN: Reckless, Reckless, Reckless Liberal bloggers are arguing that the Palin pick perfectly encapsulates McCain's impulsiveness and poor judgment: OBAMA: Nice Try, Barack Conservative bloggers are mocking Obama for comparing his management experience favorably to Palin's : "'My understanding is that Gov. Palin's town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We've got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year -- we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has ...

Obama Supporters are an E-clectic Bunch
Patterico's Pontifications — ... Remember when Obama told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that running his campaign qualified as executive experience? I certainly hope a President Obama would use his fundraising skills to convince people of all nations to donate money to the U.S. Treasury with the same zeal they’ve supported his campaign. ...

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