McCain's VP - a woman?Follow

Of course the flip-side of this is that the Obama camp can't nail Palin (so to speak) on her lack of experience either.

Except they can. First off, Obama has years more state-wide experience than she does and years more federal experience (of which she has none). Obama has served on Senate committees and been privvy to contact in the foreign policy and national security departments. He's spoken at length with heads of state. His VP pick has at least as much experience as McCain (arguably more given Biden's committee assignments) whereas Palin has far less than Obama.

The best counter the GOP has (and they're already lamely trying this) is that Palin has executive experience from her 18 months or so as governor and stint as small-town mayor. Except if executive experience is the Holy Grail, McCain better step aside for his new Gal Friday because McCain has absolutely no exective experience either. I'd be interested to hear the tortured ratio of how many years in state office experience a year as mayor of 6,000 is worth. Just for comparison, Obama's old state senate district has over thirty-two times as many people as Wasilla, Alaska.

Well, the fact that he was also dumb as a post helped make that case. Palin comes across as being moderately bright, at least.

I didn't really give Quayle much thought. I was <13 at the time. Come to think of it, you weren't much older. Were you debating the finer points of Reagan policy with your grade school classmates as well?

My middle school had a huge mock election thing. In the weeks leading up to it, one day of every week was devoted to school-wide events highlighting what was going on in the election news, and we had several debates with members of our debate club arguing on behalf of various positions and candidates.

It was actually a lot of fun and, on the whole, my classmates and I were very hip to the current events of the time because of it.

Please, I'd have extended arguments with my teachers about the utter failure of supply side economics when I was nine. My grandpa taught me a few things. One of them was that Reagan sucked.

Also, Mulroney sucked too.

Edited, Aug 29th 2008 3:13pm by Annabella

I'm from Northern Maine. There isn't much that is astute about the County.

Put it this way: up until high school, the overwhelming majority of social studies that weren't occupied with general American history were occupied with Texas history. Current events was a minor distraction from the books, and rarely held any significant place in classroom discussions, at least until high school. By then, we were in the Clinton era.

Some of us were already out of high school during the Clinton Era

The problem to some extent is that we only have two major parties and even those need some realignment.

Some of us were out of college during the Clinton era.