[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

Rudy Fichtenbaum rudy.fichtenbaum at wright.edu
Fri Sep 5 15:27:38 PDT 2008


Isn't the point that McCain criticized Obama for lack of experience and then nominated someone with no experience to be his VP?

Rudy

rayrena wrote:
>> Call me an elitist - and I mean that, it's ok with me -
>> but criticizing Palin for her lack of experience is
>> hardly sexist.
>>
>
> I've never heard you--which doesn't mean you
> haven't--criticize Obama for being inexperienced. I'd like
> to hear an argument that he's more experienced than she is.
> Or at least one that doesn't boil down to his being from a
> big state and graduating from an elite law school.
>
> It's not like she's going to be crunching employment numbers
> or writing the CFR by herself. She's got a huge bureaucracy
> to do that for her. All she needs is a philosophy and a few
> technocrats to help her put it in place. Like Reagan did.
>
>
>> Not that the office of VP, or even
>> president, is that admirable or glorious. And maybe,
>> like Andy Kopkind thought of Jerry Brown, you think it'd
>> be great to have someone who has no idea what she's doing
>> in high office because it would "destroy America." But say
>> that.
>>
>
> I don't think that, of course, which is why I made the
> argument I made, not the one you want me to make.
>
>
>> And I don't think it's terrible to point out that having a
>> backwater hick who's hardly ever traveled abroad running
>> a country of 300+ million people may not be such a good
>> idea either.
>>
>
> I could point out what you don't seem to want to admit, that
> lots of people can't travel because they don't have money to
> and that lots of smart people live in small towns. But that
> would be flattering you by tagging you an elitist. Why do
> you care so much about the cultural profile of the executive
> vp of the American state?
>
>
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