What Sarah Palin Might Have in Common with Your Boss

Interesting article. I am a die hard conservative but I tend to agree with you. When I initially heard John McCain's pick for VP, I wondered what he was up to. Was he just shaking the trees just to be the maverick he's known to be? Then I came to like Sarah Palin and I embrace her ideas and policy. Regarding her experience, she has more executive experience than Obama and Biden put together. However, she is still a novice in politics and world affairs and will be receiving on the job training. I do believe she has the aptitude to do the job though. She does remind me of those people who advance in their career for looking good or because someone liked them for whatever reason. It's just life. Abraham Lincoln became President with only a short days in the congress and look what he did. Not everything seems fair but all things work out in the end. I would rather have a VP with limited experience with good moal values than someone with tons of experience and a pure lying politician. Obama is more of an example of what you are talking about than Sara Palin. Pick the one with character any day no matter how they were chosen or advanced.

@Ellis: The distillation of your argument is that your vote for a president is based on how closely their views match yours - Not that this is a bad thing, liberals will do the same. Commentary on Obama's lack of experience was one of the main points made during the democratic pick, though you're willing to elect a "novice" VP with "limited experience". It may be simpler to accept that your choice for a president isn't based on who will best serve the country and uphold the constitution, but who more closely matches what you have been brought up to believe.

The only thing one has to worry about in a Hail Mary play, with the odds against you there is the hope of victory. Occasionally we beat the odds.

Look beyond your quest for diversity and your racially based guilt complex.

Of the above, which candidate is a proven leader under duress?

If you answer honestly, we'll be a better nation.

Tom has articulated his opinion well. Unfortunately, he lost credibility in this article when he repeats the meme that she has less experience than Obama. One can certainly make sound argument that Palin is less experienced than McCain, Biden and other active Congress-people. But to claim that Obama, who is merely Senator in title due to his pursuit of the presidency, is more experienced is very hard to swallow.

Ellis, your arguments are as poorly worded as your logic is thin. Executive experience? Being the CEO of Burger Barn doesn't make you qualified to run McDonald's, just as being mayor of a 5,000 person town doesn't equate with all the moving parts involved in being the second-in-command of the most powerful country on Earth. It's amazing how conservatives have to use the logically fallacious "tu quoque" argument to disparage Sens. Obama & Biden to somehow justify Gov. Palin's credentials (or lack thereof). I'd hesitate to start trumpeting her good moral values, unless you think charging rape victims for forensic testing, abusing your executive power by hiring & firing people based on their presumed loyalty to you, and perpetuating the politics of personal destruction by demonizing anyone whose ideas don't mesh are moral acts. Sen. Obama may not be the most qualified politician to run the country, but as you pointed out neither was Abraham Lincoln. I'd rather elect someone running on the politics of hope than on fear.

"a soccer mom with a sawed-off shotgun who wouldn't even abort Rosemary's Baby"

Classy.

I haven't been here at FC for quite some time, and now I realise there's nothing to miss.

I think the mistake we make with this arguement is that we equate time with experience. There are some that have experienced more and done more in a short amount of time than those that have held the same position for years. We've all seen some of these hacks in our politcal machine that seem to be sitting in their positions for centuries, but what have they accomplished? I'm sure plenty for themselves of course, or they work their tails off for the election year, but that seems to be it. The same can be said about the corporate world. Sure Palin has only been a governor for a couple of years, but from what I've been reading (and there was a lot of crap to go through to determin right and wrong) she seems to have made some headway in her short time. Oh and why does everyone just bring up her being Mayor for the little town, but never Governor?? Interesting. Maybe the same reason people don't bring up that Saudi Royalty helped pay for Obama's Harvard Degree. Anyway, she's done more for Alaska in two years than, lets say, Schwarzenegger has for California in 6. So, who, in that situation has better experience? Oh but wait, Cali has 36 millon people and Alaska has a little over half a million. What I'm getting at is that these numbers (years, population) are irrelevant. If they were then Clinton would never have been elected (hello its Arkansas). What it comes down to is who is going to do the right thing, who will be able to accomplish the right thing, and who will leave their positions down the road better then when they arrived. It all comes down to vision and surrounding yourself with the right people. Oh and hey Tom, you sound a little disgruntal about something, did you perhaps loose a position to someone that might be the "next best thing"? Live with it, thats business and politics. If we keep doing the same thing over and over, we keep getting the same thing over and over..........its called insanity!

The only difference between Palin and Obama is Job Title. Everything else is relative. I've worked for both kinds of manager, and I'd much rather have a principled person who knows what they're doing than someone who looks good in a skirt who claims to have experience, and can't remember history. 8 years of an administration built on mediocrity and fear is enough.

cjwilgus@psci.net says...Now that a legislative committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin found that
she unlawfully abused her authority in firing Alaska's public safety commissioner, (reported by The Associated Press)...does your opinion on supporting Palin/McCain remain the same? Haven't we had enough indiscriminate hedging or mis-statements (Iraq and their use of chemical warfare) during the last 8 years? If not, then you are probably sitting pretty good and think all those who have resigned their posts because of Bush's administration simply wanted to retire early.

Tom,
What is the fuzz all about ? The employee better than the Boss spin you are trying to get on is not only shallow but contradictory. Why did BO choose Biden ? Because BO doesn't have what John McCain's foreign relationship's experience. Biden will supply that, that is if he keeps his " let me tell you what " temper checked. BO is a first term Senator who is in a hurry to be the next President. What the heck has he done to make himself believe he can do the job ? This is about the presidency of the US of A. And you want a rookie ? He doesn't even look at you straight in the eye when he talks. Go ahead, watch him when he speaks. If he is an applicant in my company, he won't even get halfway in the interview.