by Leigh Saavedra, 1 September 2008
"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" (Republican state Senate President Lyda Green, from Palin's hometown; Anchorage Daily News)
Experience is defined to some extent by the beholder. As an Obama supporter, I've never been concerned that he has only a few years as a member of government. I counted his exposure to the world from a young age as wide experience. I gave a high rating to his having experienced the gamut of social positions, from the son of mixed parentage, growing up without a father, and occasionally having his dinner come via the foodstamps his mother had to use, to graduating with the highest honor, being elected President of the Harvard Law Review. I believed his ten years as a professor of constitutional law might be the BEST experience for repairing our damaged constitution. I gave a whopping dose of experience to the times he has been RIGHT on foreign policy, most notably in his desire to go after bin Laden instead of Iraq, who had caused no harm to a single American and was no threat to its neighbors.
Consequently, I felt myself to be flexible in determining what constituted the most useful experience. We all knew McCain wanted (and possibly needed) a woman for his nominee, and when the CEO women were mentioned with all their financial experience and no foreign policy experience, I could understand. I know many women who desperately cry for a woman to finish the hopes they developed with Hillary Clinton. I too hope to see a woman in the White House in my lifetime. The RIGHT woman.
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