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Article: PICKING PALIN; Readers sound off on McCain's vice presidential pick; UNLIKE PALIN, OBAMA HAS ZERO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE TO CLAIM.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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To the Editor:
Dictionary.com defines executive as the person or persons in whom the supreme executive power of a government is vested. Based on this definition, it's a fact that Barack Obama has absolutely no executive experience. None. Foreign policy experience? Same. None. Zero.
So how does his campaign get taken seriously when knocking Sarah Palin's experience? Years as a mayor and governor of Alaska may not be overwhelming, but it's much more than zero.
That may not make her more qualified than McCain or Biden, with their decades in the Senate. But it is certainly more relevant experience than Obama's years as a community organizer, state ...