Obama Wrong Again . . . But Will Anyone Know It?

Senator Barack Obama contends that he is more experienced in executive matters than Alaska Governor Sarah Palin because he has managed his Presidential campaign for the past 18 months. This in and of itself is not true, but let's go ahead and concede the point that Barack Obama is managing his own political campaign. Senator Obama claimed this experience running his campaign makes him more qualified to be President. (Did Obama forget, however, that the Presidential nominee from the Republican Party is not Sarah Palin, but John McCain? But I digress.) Obama stated, “Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.” (So what have you been doing as a Senator paid by tax payer dollars during this time, Senator Obama?)

So why is Obama comparing what Palin was doing as mayor, instead of what she has been doing as governor? Did he miss that she is the governor now? Apparently not, since he does refer to her as "Governor" in the quote above. Why would Barack Obama compare his current job with her former job? Why not make an apples to apples comparison, instead of an apples to oranges comparison? Could it be he is engaging in a little chicanery to throw off people, and hope that we will all be so stupid that we will not catch his trickery and sleight of hand? Lets's do a little number crunching to see just how Obama, the Democrat Presidential nominee, compares to Sarah Palin, Republican VP nominee and current Chief Executive from the State of Alaska.

Barack Obama has raised about $21 million a month during his campaign. That is a great sum of money with a large organization undeniably, but when you compare it to Governor Palin it becomes miniscule. Sarah Palin is handling revenues 47 times larger than Obama, which translates into a billion dollars per month.

Additionally, Obama is engaging in circular logic. This would be laughable except it just goes to show how inexperienced this man is, and how much he lacks in good judgment. Barack Obama arguing that he is experienced enough to be President because he is running for President is a fallacious use of logic. It is circular reasoning, and it seems to me to highlight the desperateness his campaign is facing with the choice of Palin, a Conservative woman with traditional family values, to be the VP running mate with John McCain.

Barack Obama says he has 2,500 people working for his campaign. Governor Palin, however, has 77,000 employees in the State of Alaska.

Republican National Committee Victory 2008 Chairwoman Carly Fiorina spoke for many when she said, “I am appalled by the Obama campaign’s attempts to belittle Governor Sarah Palin’s experience. The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a mayor and governor than Barack Obama has made in his life.” Fiorina added that the Obama camp’s attacks raise the question of sexism. “Because of Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin,” she said. I certainly hope this is true, but my experience has taught me that all those people who are so quick to shout "sexism" at the drop of a hat, even where it is not warranted, are suspiciously silent when true sexism rears its ugly head when it comes to horrific treatment being given to a Conservative woman.

So if it is true that running an organization the size of his campaign is a sign he is qualified to be President, then just what does it say about Sarah Palin's qualifications to be Vice President? She is much more qualified than Barack Hussein Obama!