Apparently, David Axelrod and David Plouffe are not actually running The One’s campaign. He’s doing it himself.
In fact, the very campaign itself gives the Obamassiah the experience necessary to be president and to respond to destructive natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
It also apparently gives him more experience than Governor Sarah Palin.
The exchange on CNN (full transcript from Hot Air):
AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They’ve in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What’s your response?
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BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.
That’s an “uh” count of 17, for those of you taking shots at home as a part of the drinking game.
The very idea that the act of running for president makes you prepared to be president, or to address natural disasters, is patently absurd. If Barack Obama was being subjected to one half of one percent of the feeding frenzy to which Sarah Palin and her family have been subjected in the past week, such amazingly stupid and ignorant answers to basic questions would be the swift end of his presidential campaign.
For example, when it comes to Hurricane Katrina, Obama’s experience is largely limited to issuing statements, making speeches, a token visit or two, and cosponsoring legislation drawn up by other people. Once these empty gestures are stripped out of the list of his actions, The One is yet again revealed as an empty suit.
And setting aside his voluminous experience at running for President, rather than with any of the things a President actually does, Obama’s arguments remain a laughable farce. This requires wrapping your mind around the notion that running a political campaign (which Obama hasn’t even been doing) is different than having executive experience, a concept that Senator Obama himself seems to have difficulty grasping.
As Hugh Hewitt notes, Sarah Palin, as Governor of Alaska, has dealt with a budget of in excess of $11 billion. That’s a budget about twenty-five times as large as that of the Obama campaign (using Obama’s numbers) and ten times as many employees.
And, on top of it all, she has been running the state of Alaska for longer than Barack Obama has been running for President, as utterly stupid and asinine a metric as the whole “campaign equals actual experience” notion is.
In short, Sarah Palin is beating Barack Obama even by Obama’s own measure of comparison.
