On CNN, Barack Obama compared his qualifications to Sarah Palin’s:
COOPER: And, Senator Obama, my final question — your — some of your Republican critics have said you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this. They in fact have said that Governor Palin has more executive experience, as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state of Alaska.
What’s your response?
OBAMA: Well, you know, my understanding is, is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We have got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month.
As his campaign has so many times recently, Obama completely ignores that Palin is governor of Alaska, and mocks the fact that she was formerly the mayor of a small town. One could just as well mock Obama as a former state senator. In fact, when Palin took office as mayor in 1996, he held no public office at all.
What’s funny, though, is Obama’s statement of his own executive experience: running for president. He is arguing that running for president qualifies him to run for president. This is not a serious argument; by that argument it would be impossible to elect an unqualified candidate.
But suppose we do take it seriously. If his campaign is his qualification for president, he has to be saying that he would run his administration like a political campaign. (In fact, I don’t doubt that that’s true.) Is that the administration America needs?
(Via Ann Althouse.)
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