The Issue of Experience: Sarah Palin Versus Barack Obama
by Charles Coughlin
The liberals have been blasting Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as if her experience stopped at her second place finish in an Alaskan beauty contest. There’s just one little problem with going after Governor Palin: she has better experience to be president than Barack Obama, and she isn’t the lead name on the ticket. John McCain of course is the presidential candidate for the GOP with decades more experience than Barack although many Republicans strongly question McCain’s devotion to conservative ideals. Let’s leave McCain out of the comparison however and just look at Sarah Palin versus Barack Obama and see who has the best experience.
One Sarah Palin biography notes “In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest (playing the flute), then finished second in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the “Miss Congeniality” award. Palin attended Hawaii Pacific College — now known as Hawaii Pacific University — in Honolulu for a semester in 1982, majoring in Business Administration. She transferred in 1983 to North Idaho College. In 1987, Palin received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho, where she also minored in political science. In 1988, she worked briefly as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska. She also helped out in her husband’s family commercial fishing business.”
While most people might gloss over this, Sarah Palin has had TWO REAL JOBS in the real world, which is exactly two more jobs than many career politicians have had (including Barack Obama). (more…)