Obama shows his true colors with Palin
Can you believe the hypocrisy, lies, and just all-out lack of respect the media, blogosphere, and the far-left are demonstrating with regard to Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin?
Here's an example of a blatant disregard of the facts.
On his television show last night, Glenn Beck had a short segment where he debunks some of the flat-out ridiculous crap Barack Obama has said about Palin. Beck laid it all out and told it like it is. Here's part of the transcript.
Well, every day in our free e-mail newsletter we feature new "arguments with the idiots", a basic outline on how an argument should go with you and one of your stupid friends.
For example, you have got somebody that you know that says Sarah Palin isn't experienced enough to be vice president but Barack Obama is. You say, really, that's weird. Certainly Barack believed when he was going to be president, when he announced that he was ready to be president that he was ready to be president, right? Well, yeah. Okay.
Well, Barack Obama was in office for 767 days when he announced that he was a presidential candidate. Sarah Palin was in office 635 days when she announced herself as a vice presidential candidate. So what sort of incredible knowledge did Barack Obama absorb in that 132 days, hmm? Oh, yeah, and before you answer. If McCain/Palin do go on to win, she'll go into office on Jan 20th, 2009 with 24 days more experience than Barack Obama when he announced.
At this point your idiot friend will just look confused and say, "George Bush!" And then it's possible that they might try to trot out this gem of a talking point like Barack Obama did last night with Anderson Cooper. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: My understanding is, is that Governor Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We've got 2,500 in this campaign. I think the budget is maybe $12 million a year. We have a budget of about three times that just for the month.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Did he miss that she's the governor now? Why would Barack Obama compare his current job with her former job? Why not compare apples to apples?
Maybe this is why. We crunched the numbers. Sorry. And since he announced his candidacy, Barack Obama has raised about $21 million a month. That's a huge organization for sure, unless you directly compare it to Sarah Palin, who is handling revenues of 47 times as large, over a billion per month.
Barack Obama says 2,500 employees. That's what he's got working for him. And it is a lot. Unless you directly compare it to Sarah Palin and the Alaskan government with its over 77,000 employees or around 31 times as many as Barack.
So if, as Barack insinuates running an organization the size of his campaign is a sign you're qualified to be president, Sarah Palin is somewhere between 37 -- or 31 and 47 times more qualified than him.
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Gotta love the "arguments with the idiots" name, because clearly anyone who disagrees with Glenn Beck is an idiot.
Anyway, I think the way the left-wingers have attacked Palin's family is pretty reprehensible in the same way that I think the right-wingers attempt to make Obama into a hate-filled muslim was pretty reprehensible. You failed to mention, though, that Obama denounced those personal attacks and said he'd fire anyone on his staff that made any.
As to crunching numbers to compare 'experience' and 'qualification' between Palin and Obama, I think it's a silly thing to do, and I think it's somewhat counterproductive for Obama to play the game, but not really 'flat-out ridiculous crap' or any way below-the-belt. There are about a billion ways you could cherry-pick bits of their biographies to make one look more experienced than the other, and I've seen many examples from both sides already. I don't think it really does anything to convince anyone.
What I think it somewhat ironic is the great emphasis that McCain placed on experience, and more specifically on the importance of experience in a VP. He made much more of a big deal about experience than Obama ever did, and for good reason: he had that going for him, while Obama did not. And then he went and picked a relatively inexperienced VP. His choice makes a lot of sense in some ways, but it pretty much cuts off the whole 'importance of experience' argument he previously used. I expect we won't hear much more of that from him going forward.
Basically, 'experience' and 'qualification' is no longer a viable topic for debate in this election. Obama has indeed shown his 'true colors', in that he refused to stoop to attacks on Palin's family while hordes of left-wingers called for them and engaged in mud-slinging themselves, but he did exercise his perfectly valid right to suggest he had more experience than she does. Whether that's true or not depends on how you want to measure it. I think it wasn't a particularly good move on his part, but not at all underhanded or uncalled for, especially given the emphasis McCain previously placed on experience.
"Arguments with the idiots" is not Glenn Beck vs anyone who would disagree with him. It's Facts vs Idiotic Crap like what what the DailyKOS was spewing this last weekend.
Example:
Idiot: Global warming is killing polar bears. We need to act now and enact cap and trade legislation to protect the polar bear population.
Fact: The polar bear population is thriving. Since the early 1970s the global polar bear population has risen from around 5,000 to over 30,000. They must have lost the memo.
Levi, I understand and empathize with your distrust and disdain for media pundits, talk radio hosts, and general-gasbags. I like Glenn Beck because I find he is more trustworthy than most. He doesn't pretend to be a journalist (e.g. just about anyone on MSNBC) and is quick to point out he is a conservative and his agenda, which he admits to having, is conservative. He is usually armed with the facts and, I think, doesn't spin things too much to fit his agenda (see example in Obama's interview with Anderson Cooper).
That being said, I'm a little uncomfortable when Glenn has someone like Ann Coulter as a guest on his TV show. In my mind, Ann Coulter is equivalent with Michael Moore (not visually, of course). I can see Ann Coulter making the same types of comments about hurricanes being proof there is a God in heaven if a hurricane was going to disrupt the Democrat convention. I found Ann Coulter's book "Treason" to be a great book. However, it's difficult to respect her as a credible source of information when she's constantly slinging mud.
Surprised I agree with Glenn Beck? That's why I like him... We're like this.