Let's compare experience...

True experience builds a persons resume, but it also builds a person's character.  To decide who to vote for in November,  voters need to LOOK at the candidates and compare what their lives stand for, how they have lived their lives, who they associate with, who they look up to, how they conduct their campaigns, and yes, what they have done in their lives.

Extremely qualified to run for Vice President or President of the United States of America - Sarah Palin.  From the upcoming biography titled "Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader" by Joe Hilley (Zondervan 2008):

In "Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader", Hilley explores traits from Palin's background and experience, including her maverick integrity, electrifying communication style, career agility, and perpetual education, to establish his argument for Palin as an exemplary leader in our rapidly changing cultural landscape. By exploring the leadership principles that have catapulted Palin into the national spotlight, Hilley explains how she models a fresh paradigm of leadership that will guide the United States through the 21st century.

"We live in an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, so breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are the most prized commodities for our leaders," said Hilley. "Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin brings both of these qualities and more to her new role as John McCain's running mate and I'm eager for readers to have the opportunity to know her and her brand of leadership more thoroughly."

NOT qualified to run for President, that's Barack Obama:

Flashback 2004: Obama Says He Is Unqualified To Run For President, at Stop the ACLU

Found this from VIRGINIA H. SHANAHAN who asks:

Perhaps Obama can share with us what major changes have occurred during this time that he now believes himself prepared to be President of the United States. What are your qualifications?

Answer: Zip, nada, zeros, goose eggs!

Does anyone think Sarah Palin will send out surrogates to speak for her on any subject?  No, she speaks for herself without hesitation.  Compare that to Obama, "Obama Bullied By A Girl ... Cries":

So the way I see it, Barry Obama is crying because his record (not him personally) was attacked by a woman in response to his dismissal of her record and selection to be VP. Make no mistake, the initial response was dismissal and negative. It was changed when reaction from many was swift and also negative. I also see that Barry is pimping out his women to do his fighting for him. He is getting beat up by a girl and he is sending girls to fight his battle. He is not man enough to fight on his own.

We know that Barry cannot match up with McCain as a matter of toughness and there is no shame in that. But Obama has no problem attacking McCain and engaging in a fight with him. Obama is not willing to take on Palin which makes me wonder how tough he could possibly be with the bad people of this world.  (Big Dog's WebLog)

The war in Iraq was NOT a mistake Obama:

Dear Mr. Obama, the Iraq War Was Not a Mistake!, at Stop the ACLU

If you want chills, make sure to watch this all the way to the very end!

They died for a purpose not a mistake.

Hat tip: Big Dog!

Obama's views on Russia and Russia's attack on Georgia were also wrong.  President Harry S. Truman said the following words, and those words are accurate today for Obama and his followers:

"Within our own nation I had seen many well-meaning groups who campaigned for 'peace at any price' while apologizing for the aggressive acts of the Russians as merely a reflection of Russian reaction to our own tough policy. Many respectable Americans espoused such ideas without realizing the danger to which they were subjecting our national security and the freedoms for which we had fought so hard."  (Investors Business Daily)

Is this the kind of friends, relationships and experience we want in a President?  Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi? 

Does Barack Obama owe his meteoric rise to an Israeli-hating adviser to a Saudi billionaire? Why did a race-baiting mentor to the Black Panthers favor this yet unknown community organizer?  (IBD)

Before Barack Obama ran for office, he consulted people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Flager, as well as the South side Chicago political machine. 

Sarah Palin consulted God and her pastors. Example:   "Shortly after taking office as governor in 2006, Sarah Palin sent an e-mail message to Paul E. Riley, her former pastori n the Assembly of God Church, which her family began attending when she was a youth. She needed spiritual advice in how to do her new job,..."

“She asked for a biblical example of people who were great leaders and what was the secret of their leadership,” Mr. Riley said.

He wrote back that she should read again from the Old Testament the story of Esther, a beauty queen who became a real one, gaining the king’s ear to avert the slaughter of the Jews and vanquish their enemies. When Esther is called to serve, God grants her a strength she never knew she had.

Mr. Riley said he thought Ms. Palin had lived out the advice as governor, and would now do so again as theRepublican Party's  vice-presidential nominee.

“God has given her the opportunity to serve,” he said. “And God has given her the strength to carry out her goals.”  (continue reading)

The above quote is from "In Palin’s Life and Politics, Goal to Follow God’s Will", By Kirk Johnson and Kim Severson, The New York Times, via Peace and Freedom '08.

Why Obama's Organizer Days Are A Big Joke, Michelle Malkin at IBD:

[Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said]  "... Let's clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies."

[Michelle Malkin said]  " ...  Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors' lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Obama's brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan nonprofits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in." [snip]

What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.

Obama's community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub "direct actions");... (IBD)

One thing is for sure:  Sarah Palin knows who the Savior is and she doesn't think for one minute that she is 'the one'.  Compare that to Obama who uses the savior reference many times:

Obama the Savior, at Stop the ACLU

He really is full of himself, huh? Was this guy properly vetted? Collective salvation?

this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices necessary to bring about a new day and a new age.

Jesus? How about the sacrifices of our soldiers and POWs? McCain? Country First!

The first real battles will be the debates, "58 Days That Will Change The World":

These start on Septeber 26 when McCain and Obama face each other at the first 2008 presidential debate at the University of Mississippi. More than 70 million Americans are expected to tune in to watch the televised debate on domestic policy.   [snip]

For once, the vice presidential debate on October 2 will be just as closely watched. Sarah Palin proved herself a doughty fighter at the Republican Convention and the party machine hopes that the "pit bull in lipstick" will sink her fangs into the calves of Joe Biden.  (Scotland On Sunday)

The debates will reflect experience, knowledge, judgement, and ability to confront one's enemy, at least political enemies.  Should be very enteresting and enlightning.

In my opinion, the battle is between Obama and Palin, there is no comparison.  In the battle between Obama and McCain, no comparison.  No matter how you look at it, ... Obama is not prepared to lead this country.

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Comments

[Debbie]

Thanks 2cents for visiting again and commenting, heading over to read your article.

Debbie

[2Cents]

This is great stuff. I did a post (http://www.theresmytwocents.com/2008/09/experience-counts.html) on Palin's experience, too, but it wasn't this in-depth. Thanks!

[Mushy]

Holly cow...what a great post!

I wish I could steal the entire post for my Silverbacks site, but instead I'll have to link this post there.

Thanks Debbie!

[Rosemary]

Excellent post! Thank you for the tb. ;) I just have to read your 'First Hand Account of Sarah Palin'! WOW. Did you actually get to meet her? Was it as thrilling as I think it would be? So many questions, so little time! lol.

[Aurora]

Excellent comparison, Debbie. The media are actually really revealing their hypocrisy by complaining about Sarah Palin's inexperience when they know that Obama falls far beneath her in that area. It's become so ridiculous that even some of the many sheeple that never question the MSM must be scratching their heads. I really think this is going to backfire on them.

[Skunkfeathers]

Oblahblah isn't fit to lead running water down a hill; he'd tax the productive part of it, undermining the end result.

But he'll be more than happy to feed the self-esteem of our enemies, while undercutting the job done by our stellar military.

No Oblahblah surrogate can wash away his established voting or speaking record, let alone the America-hating friends Oblahblah has embraced over the years.

[Debbie]

Courtney: That's what I'm praying for, NO OBAMA.

Thanks girl friend.

[courtneyme109]

Best report/essay seen on expertise Debbie. Exceptionally well done.

The Georgia ref is key.

Perhaps - this is the begining of the end for Senator Obama's 2008 campaign.

[Debbie]

Lizzie: I don't think Sarah Palin is for same sex marriage, but she did agree to shared benefits for partners. I will have to do some checking to be sure though.

[Debbie]

Thanks for the link Silli Lizzie, I'll head over there.

[Sillie Lizzie]

Not to detract from ANYTHING you've said about Obama, he's poison and a nightmare for our country's future.

But integrity demands that we look at the experience of ALL the candidates, Sarah Palin included.

I for one have a GREAT BIG question about something I just discovered about Gov. Palin's actions in the matter of granting marriage benefits to homosexual couples.

For more, click here:
"Say It Ain't So, Sarah!"
http://sillielizziesrock.blogspot.com/2008/09/say-it-aint-so-sarah.html

[Angel]

sorry Deb..found this link in my spam filter and took it right out..ty!:)