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Letter: What executive experience?
Published Saturday, September 6, 2008
I listened carefully to Senator McCain’s speech to the RNC last night and am left with a question: “What executive experience has John McCain had?” It doesn’t seem as though he has had any executive experience, so it is curious that he is attacking Senator Obama on this issue.
Nancy Adams
LeRoy

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Posted by terryzabel (anonymous) on September 8, 2008 at 11:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
He has 10 times as much experience in the Senate. The same thing that Obama thinks qualifies him for anything. Obama can hardly even claim any experience in the Senate. He started running for President as soon as he became a Senator.
The only person in the Presidential race with executive experience is Sarah Palin.
Posted by metisman (anonymous) on September 12, 2008 at 2:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
We have a comedian running for the US Senate, why not a governor running for Vice President?
Posted by Mallory (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 12:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Um... didn't you all hear the news? According to Senator Steve Cohen of Tennessee on the floor of the Senate on 9/10... We have Jesus Christ running for the Presidency and Pontias Pilate running for the VP slot. He said "Jesus was a community organizer and Pilate was a Governor."
Well, I doubt if Jesus title would have been "community Organizer" and if it HAD been, he would have to have been considered an EFFECTIVE organizer, unlike Obama who worked for 2 years to get asbestos out of HUD housing, only to have it still there when he left.
I don't think I want ANYONE in the White House who's supporters think he's Jesus Christ!
Posted by Mallory (anonymous) on September 14, 2008 at 12:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
To answer the letter writers question, though, I don't recall McCain attacking Obama on his lack of executive experience. I believe that was a counter to Obama's attack on Palin calling her "Mayor" and insinuating that her title as Governer of the largest state, the largest oil producing state, and the state with the most coast line and foreign borders, was irrelevant. It was Obama who chose to mock Palin's lack of experience. The first comment to come out of his campaign was that she was "the mayor of a town of 9,000." Well, how many people lived in the town where Obama was mayor?
And what kind of politics did Obama use to get where he is? He got his initial boost from terrorist Bill Ayers, he used dirty politcs to get Alice Palmer's seat in the Illinois Senate after she introduced him to Ayers and tried to HELP him. During her final year in office she decided to run for the U.S. Congress, but lost. She then hastily worked on qualifying for the ballot to retain her spot in the senate and some of her supporters even asked Obama to step aside in her favor. Obama pressed forward, however, and one if his tactics was to challenge hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions for Alice Palmer and three other candidates. The result was that none of them had enough qualifying signatures and Obama was alone on the ballot. Obama said he was operating by the rules and that if the candidates couldn't get enough valid signatures, they might not be effective legislators. Critics, including some Democrats, criticized Obama for playing hardball in an election in which he had said he wanted to "empower disenfranchised citizens."
This is the man who couldn't make his mind up on critical votes... but he did manage to vote against a bill that would have provided medical care for infants born alive after abortions, and he did vote for sex education for kindergartners.
This man is ruthless, vicious and just plain underhanded. He excels at Chicago thug politics... he doesn't want a level playing field, he wants the playing field CLEARED. If his ties to Tony Rezko, his kickbacks to Rezko when he was in the Illinois Senate, and his ties to Terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn don't scare you, then I don't know what to say. You're lost.
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