Does Sarah pale in comparison? Obama vs. Palin résumés

[Qutzupalotl]

Obama: First black president of the Harvard Law Review
Palin: First runner-up Miss Alaska beauty pageant in 1984

Obama: Graduate of Columbia U, and Harvard Law School;
Palin: Journalism Degree from the prestigious University of Idaho

Obama: Community organizer & Civil Rights attorney in Chicago, Constitutional Law professor U of Chicago
Palin: Sports reporter at an Anchorage TV station

Obama: Illinois State Senator (1997-2004)
Palin: Member of Wasilla, AK City Council (1992-1996), Mayor of Wasilla (pop. 8,471) 1996-2002

Obama: United States Senator (2004-present)
Palin: Governor of 3rd least-populated State in Union (2006-present)


Thanks to DUer KnaveRupe for compiling this!

[SharonRB]

1. And if you compare her with Biden

it would look even worse.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Like a Post-It next to a scroll.

[Qutzupalotl]

4. Correct, but I hear pundits trying to say

she has more experience than Obama, which is only true if you discount everything except executive experience (and I see no reason to).

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

10. P O Dubya doesn't have any "Executive" experience

either. Obviously she wasn't in the military, so the Freepers should be up in arms about that.

[GoesTo11]

14. Obama's campaign has almost as many volunteers as Alaska has people

How's that for executive experience.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

15. Using that definition of experience,

she has more than McCain as well.

[Cha]

21. Yeah, it's just the fucked up corporatemedia is

waging a newbie war with Obama and they contend palin rivals him.

[Minimus]

3. Awesome! I will definitely use this info.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. It would make a good email to certain people...

[jesus_of_suburbia]

5. Can we please compare VP to VP? Biden RULES!

[RichGirl]

7. Olbermann

said that compared to her, Obama looked like John Adams.

[YDogg]

8. POW!!!111!!!! BREASTESSES!!!! 11111111 !!!!!!!!!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

9. Barack and Harvard

Law - he graduated magna cum laude. I went to HLS (same class as Michelle O) and can tell you that graduating from HLS as magna requires smarts on an epic level and three years of basically straight A grades. HLS grades (or did back in the day) on a very mushy B curve and it is about as easy to get straight As as it is to balance a piano on your head.

As Rachel said, this is a LOL choice as far as the Vice Presidency goes.

[EC]

11. This is all beginning to look like another Alan Keyes type

pick...pull a fundie nut out of their asses to shore up the base and lose big...

[ecstatic]

17. And might I note that blacks would never swarm to Alan Keyes

just because he's black.

[sunnystarr]

12. lol but please edit and add part-time to Sports Reporter and Mayor

and I'll bet the City Council was part-time as well.

[Qutzupalotl]

23. Well, this is Alaska, so that goes without saying.

:hide:

:spank:

[Median Democrat]

13. Obama's State Legislative District Alone Had 200K Constituents

The State of Illinois has 12 million people. So, to put it in perspective, Obama had 10 years of experience in a State Senate District that had over 1/3 the population (Over 200K)of the entire State of Alaska (about 600,000).

[ecstatic]

16. Palin could have NEVER pulled off the disciplined organization that Obama demonstrated

throughout his campaign.

[Blondiegrrl]

18. Beautiful. Thanks. I will use this. K&R n/t

[Capt. America]

19. But she's hot and can shoot a gun, the Freeper boys will love her...

and the suburban "soccer moms" will love her because she is mall-Barbie versus the "uppity", vaguely European/Vogue/upper west side Michelle. Remember, the Rethugs are the best marketers in history. They can sell a bag of shit to most of the mouthbreathers in this country by calling it "freedom fertilizer" or "patriot poo".

[Qutzupalotl]

22. She talks like the preacher's gossipy wife on The Simpsons.

I think she appeals to the base but not much beyond.

[Overseas]

20. Exactly !! I had to turn off Larry King when they had the prissy blonde insisting

on what a fabulous choice Sarah Palin was and how much more experience she had than Obama.

I wouldn't be surprised if, as a community organizer, he directed more people than she did as Mayor of Wasilla.

Disgusting. I want people to call them on that. The RNC talking points say she has more "executive" experience because she was top dog. CEOs are Gods, don't you know. But she was Gov for 2 years of a state with less than a million people. And he's been a state Senator for 7 years and a national Senator of millions for 4 years, prominent on the national and international stage already.

But sometimes people just let these pretty, blonde skinny gals with high-pitched insistent voices just keep talking nonsense. Maybe Carville finally got in a word edgewise to call her out on the crap but I don't know.