Irony Alert

Saturday, August 30. 2008

The American Prospect's Ezra Klein, who is not yet 25 years old, writes the following post, where he uses the word "experience" four times and the word "inexperience" once:

THE EXPERIENCE DODGE.

Watching the McCain flacks in a continual state of meltdown on CNN, it's striking how swiftly their central defense of Palin is backfiring. When the anchors question her experience -- 19 months in the Alaska statehouse, and before that the mayoralty of an 8,000 person town -- they question Obama's experience. Game, set, match? Not really. The problem for the McCain campaign, as Campbell Brown pointed out, is that Barack Obama doesn't think four years in the US Senate and eight in the Chicago statehouse are insufficient. It's the McCain campaign that believes Obama is inexperienced. But Palin is even less experienced. And it was the McCain campaign that chose her. The inconsistency is entirely internal to the campaign: It's a contradiction of their message, not Obama's.

Of course, Palin has been chosen to run for veep while Obama is running for president. Must be a youthful oversight on Klein's part...

Posted by Tom Elia in Humor at 10:02 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wait is your point that Ezra Klein is unqualified to be president?

#1 Eric on 2008-08-30 12:43 (Reply)

Of course, Palin has been chosen to run for veep while Obama is running for president.

Good thing as VP, Palin's only responsibility will be to take over THE PRESIDENCY in the event of the unthinkable.

#2 Dan on 2008-08-30 13:19 (Reply)

I didn't realize Ezra was running for high office!

#3 Anonymous on 2008-08-30 14:15 (Reply)

Electing McCain/Palin will give an outside chance that someone inexperienced person will serve as president, while electing Obama/Biden guarantees it.

#4 rightguy (Homepage) on 2008-08-30 14:24 (Reply)

Man it must hurt to wake up every morning and realize that you are still so painfully stupid, Tom Elia.

#5 Anonymous on 2008-08-30 20:05 (Reply)

It does!

But then I just drink a shot of mouthwash and I feel all better!

Of course, the Scope only offers a temporary fix, but maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to have a mentor like you, from whom I could learn so much!

#5.1 Tom Elia on 2008-08-30 20:17 (Reply)

The bravery of leftist trolls, and the depth of their insight, never ceases to impress. Anyone.

#5.2 David Rogers on 2008-08-30 21:34 (Reply)

There is a critical component missing to the Palin biographical shorthand, which is Palin's four years as chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, a position roughly equivalent (at the state level, in a state that produces a WHOLE LOT of oil) to the position of Secretary of Energy.

So, Sarah has 12 years of executive experience. Biden and O'bambi haven't ever run anything but their mouths.

Oh -- and Biden -- in 35 years in the Senate, he's managed to be wrong on almost everything EXCEPT the Iraq War declaration in 2002, which O'bambi famously thinks is the worse mistake in American foreign policy, ever. (never mind Biden was against Reagan on the Cold War and against Bush 41 (and Clinton and Gore) on Gulf War I, and he was against the surge, which has been so successful that Democrats don't call it "John McCain's surge" anymore.

That's the "foreign policy judgment" that O'Bambi is looking for in his go-to guy.

Biden. Not just wrong for 35 years -- spectacularly wrong.

#6 David Rogers on 2008-08-30 21:40 (Reply)

I just watched Palin on a cnbc interview, linked on Powerline. She is an comprehensive expert on energy, for sure. Very sharp and persuasive. She will prove a powerful adversary in a debate, or, in an adversarial interview. She did mention that Joe Biden voted agaist the Alaskan pipeline- 30 years ago.

I am sure the mainstrem media is sharpening their knives for a quick and easy kill, here. But I think Palin will make moose stew out of the lot of them.

#7 rightguy (Homepage) on 2008-08-30 21:59 (Reply)

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