The Stoopid It Burns: Palin says Obama’s ‘lack of experience’ leaves him ‘a bit over his head’ on HCR
March 20th, 2010Really, it doesn’t get more sublimely idiotic than it did last night on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show, when she brought on Sarah Palin to attack a imminent passage of health-care reform.
Why oh why wasn’t this a bipartisan bill? Van Susteren wondered. In a rational world, a simple answer would be obvious: Because Republicans have found it more politically expedient to simply oppose every step taken by President Obama. But of course in Palintopia, it’s all President Obama’s fault:
Palin: It really reflects a lack of experience of President Obama’s, which — it was warned about during a campaign that C&idate Obama didn’t have executive experience, he hasn’t been an administrator or a manager of anything. So to jump into this huge — hugely important responsible position as President of a United States without a experience to know how to work across party lines, & to know how to administer & to manage a team to get policy through that makes sense, that’s supported by a people — it’s a bit, um, it’s a bit over his head, if you will. &, uh, things aren’t going well, & a public is really voicing air frustration.
Of course, hearing Palin talk up her “executive experience” as somehow superior to Obama’s is always occasion for low mordant chuckles, if not outright guffaws.
In a course of carefully examining Palin’s public record as an administrator — particularly her stint as Mayor of Wasilla — for a investigative piece Max Blumenthal & I co-wrote for Salon in October 2008, I hDrunk Newspen to be intimately familiar with just what kind of issues & decisions Sarah Palin dealt with on a daily basis.
Primarily, Palin was involved with such vital issues as which streets to pave in town, whear to put a levy for a sewer bond, & issuing proclamations of support for a Iditarod. Probably her most difficult issue involved construction of a new sports-activity center — a project that turned into a gigantic financial headache for her former constituents.
So when she talks about cramming bad ideas down people’s throats with deceptive tactics, she knows whereof she speaks.
But a notion that Palin’s “experience” compares to Obama’s background crafting legislation that affects a health & well-being of millions of Americans — well, let’s just say a guffaws are well earned.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back




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