A few years on city council and two years as governor?
Barack Obama has convinced much of America, and now seems to have convinced John McCain, that raw quantity of experience is not the right criteria for picking a President. After all, in 2004, nobody had more experience as a post-9/11 President as George Bush did, and we all know how his reelection worked out for America.
But McCain took only half of the lesson to heart. The second part of Obama's convincing argument is that it is the quality of judgment that is most critical. On that point, Palin, like McCain, fails the test.
Although I haven't heard anybody mention it (in the hour or so they've been discussing it on the news), I think we will see Palin used primarily to push McCain's "drill every drop of oil, no matter the cost" argument. Just like his overfocus on Iraq led him to overlook other regional threats (Afghanistan for example), we see McCain's lack of judgment playing out in picking a VP to primarily push a single point.
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