DGDevin wrote:
-MIKE- wrote:

I have no disdain for anyone.
My point was that Mrs. Palin has had much more executive experience
than Mr President.

She has more executive experience than Abraham Lincoln did when he
became President too, or JFK for that matter. Would you suggest that
she would make a better potential President than either of them on
that basis?

Sure. You should have picked different examples.

JFK accomplished two things: One good, staring down the Ruskies regarding
missles in Cuba, and one bad, the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Not one of his
legislative proposals passed during his tenure. Not one.

Lincoln was directly responsible for the deaths of 600,000 Americans. But,
since cotton accounted for 80% of America's trade at the time, it was
imperative to keep the bucks flowing to the overall country. Like all
Republicans, it is claimed, Lincoln cared more for business than the common
man.


If you figure "community organizer" is the portion of Obama's life
that is the most important when assessing whether he's qualified to
be President, then why not evaluate Palin's qualifications to be Vice
President on what she was doing at an equivalent point in her
career--sports reporter.

Good point. I think, however, it's more prudent to compare the job each had
that had the most responsibility, respect, and ability to get things done.
Obama was a community organizer, then went downhill. Palin was a reporter,
then went up (which is about the only direction you can move if you're a
reporter).