Sarah Palin Record vs. Barack Obama

The Republicans believe if you repeat something for long enough (i.e. that Palin has so much more experience than Obama), it will become true.  Let’s take a real look at the political careers of Palin vs. Obama and you can decide.

Alaska population: 683,000 people
Illinois population: 12.9 million people

SARAH PALIN

• 2006 – Present — Govenor of Alaska (elected November 2006)
• 1996 – 2002 — Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska
• 1992 – 1996 — Served on the city council, of Wasilla, Alaska (population 7,025)
• 1988 – Worked as a Sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Alaska.  Helped with husband’s commercial fishing business.
• 1987 – B.S. in Journalism from University of Idaho

BARACK OBAMA

• 2005 – Present — United States Senate
• 1996 – 2004 — Illinois State Senate
• 1993 – 1996 — Civil rights attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Gallan. He represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases.
• 1988 – 1991 – Harvard Law School, and first black president of Harvard Law Review in it’s 104 year history, J.D. degree magna cum laude
• 1985 – 1988 – Delayed law school and moved to Chicago to take a job as a community organizer as Director of the Developing Communities Project.
• 1983 — B.A. from Columbia University in New York

Sarah Palin – Wikipedia

Barack Obama  – Official Website

Sarah Palin Big on Impression, Short on Truth

Last night’s Republican Convention officially unveiled Sarah Palin to the public.  While we learned that the Governor of Alaska is very poised,  intelligent and impressionable, it mostly showed us that she is quite capable of delivering prepackaged speeches with a litany of zingers aimed at the opponents.

Palin compared her mayor of Alaska experience to Obama’s community organizing. Except that during the time Palin was a mayor of Alaska (1996 – 2002),  Obama was in the State Senate (1996 – 2004). Palin was elected Govenor in November of 2006.

For some reason, the speech writer took great delight in “bending” the truth.  But nevermind that.  Perhaps a commenter called “realtalk” summed it up best on how “comfortable Palin seemed at lying about her record” by saying this:

Sarah Palin lied with a straight face, even knowing that most people are well aware of the truth of her actually having supported the building of the “Bridge to Nowhere”, and about her record of hiring lobbyists to lobby Washington for money. Sarah Palin claims she is against earmarks, BUT THE TRUTH IS, as governor she requested earmarks totalling $750 million dollars from the federal government (the largest amount in this country per-capita request in the nation).

Sadly of all is that Sarah Palin claims that families with children with disabilities will have her as a champion in the White House, BUT the fact is in Alaska those same parents had NO champion in Sarah, who actually CUT by 60% funding to programs which helped children with disabilities in her state.
Sarah Palin also CUT funding to programs which help HOMELESS pregnant teens, have a place to sleep while pregnant.

Hypocritically, of all is that Sarah Palin boldly sites an ethics bill in Alaska, it seems she has forgotten that she herself is RIGHT NOW under investigation for ethics violation.
Sarah Palin is ALREADY participating in the same type of behaviour that we have seen in the White House over the past 8 years, the coverups, and lies to try keep that behaviour, of ethics violation, from the public.

Interesting.

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VIDEO: McCain Camp Stumped by Sarah Palin Questions

McCain’s judgment has been called into question after choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice-President. Recently, Palin revealed that her 17 year old daughter Bristol is 5 months pregnant, but plans to marry the father.  (Sarah Palin exclusively endorses abstinence-only education.)

McCain claims he knew about the teen pregnancy all along, but selected Palin anyway because of her excellent qualifications and “long record of reform”.

However, whenever pressed for more details on those qualifications, the response usually involves McCain’s aides redirecting the focus to Barack Obama.

Here, CNN’s Campbell Brown talks to McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. By the end of the interview, even she is visibly frustrated as she gets the run around.

Campbell Brown: There is a feeling out there that you are not holding your VP pick to your own standard, the standard you defined. So, explain to us why you think Govenor Palin is ready to be Commander in Chief.

For some reason, the aide can’t quite manage to answer the question.

WATCH VIDEO HERE