Bring it On Barky

Let’s concede at the outset that John McCain and Joe Biden are two crusty, vintage Washington insiders. They cancel each other out. Which brings us to the match up between Barack Obama and Sara Palin. Let’s put it in technical terms–Barack is screwed.

Want to talk experience? Palin may come from a small state in terms of population, but she actually has carried out the task of governing. She has developed and presented budgets. She has appointed senior government officials. Fact is that she has more experience as a Mayor and a Governor than Obama, Biden, and McCain combined. She has actually spent time in Europe as a Governor visiting troops from her state who had been wounded in Iraq. Barack? [crickets] He was so busy running for the Presidency that he had no time to hold a single hearing on NATO and its challenges in Afghanistan.

How about character? That’s where she absolutely destroys Obambi. Why?

She does not come from a dysfunctional family. She was not shopped around as a child by a hippy mother who hooked up with a parade of guys only to be dumped with her grandparents.

She is not afraid to release her birth certificate or her medical records.

She does not have an unexplained trip to Pakistan.

She does not feel compelled to lie about her background and upbringing (Barack’s nonsense that he was raised by a single mother is a case in point).

She not only talks about values, but she lives them. Barack preaches about the need to “care for the least of these my brethern” but then callously ignores the plight of his own flesh and blood brother who lives in Kenya. Palin says she is pro-life. She gets pregnant and discovers she is carrying an infant with Down’s Syndrome. What does she do? She carries the baby to term and brings a new life to the world. I don’t care so much what she says, I want to know what she does.

This bit from the Wikipedia entry gives us some insight into the kind of person she is:

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[10] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the “lack of ethics” of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[11][3] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican Party’s chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[12] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[3]

So, she takes on the Oil and Gas industry and her own party? Give me one example where Barack Obama ever did anything like that. Just one.

Is she a good debater? Don’t know. She is behind the experience curve on that one. There is something to be said for spending every day on the campaign trail making speech after speech. However, in watching Palin today there was a hint of authenticity that Obama and Biden can’t match. Are Obama and Biden dumb enough to want that fight?