September 1, 2008

Barack Obama Compares Oranges to Apples

Posted by Adam Graham in : Presidential Race 2008

Barack Obama on Anderson Cooper’s 360 made the following statement comparing his experience and that of Governor Sarah Palin:

In an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 Monday night, Obama was asked about whether his experience in the U.S. Senate dealing with weather-related situations compares to Palin’s executive experience running the state of Alaska and as the small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

“My understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town, Wassilla, has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe 12 million dollars a year – we have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama responded.

To quote the old Laugh In show, “Very interesting, but stupid.” Did Obama have a staff of 2500 people working for him while Governor Palin was Mayor of Wassila? Governor Palin became Mayor of Wasila in 1996, the same year Barack Obama was running for the Illinois State Senate. Somehow think 2500 might be a tad much for an Illinois State Senate campaign. Illinois Senators have district offices, so I assume once he was elected, he had a small staff, but certainly not 50 people.

In 2004 Obama was elected to the US Senate. U.S. Senators have staffs of 40 people. How long has Barack Obama had a cast of thoustands working for him? It’s only been this year that the campaign has ramped up to that level when Sarah Palin has been governor, not mayor of Wasilla.

Try 15,000 people or six times the size of Obama’s campaign. In addition, the State employees work in diverse areas such as labor, law enforcement, and highways while Obama’s 2500 are dedicated to electing him. The only crisis they’ve had to deal with lately is getting caught flat-footed on Ms. Palin being picked as well as a misprint on buttons for the Idaho Democratic delegation that suggested an unfortunate bi-partisan ticket. Palin has 15,000 employees to cover one of the largest states in the union where inclimate weather is a way of life.

Also, should Obama really be setting expectations for his executive style based on his campaign?

“Campaigns start getting these hair triggers” doesn’t quite have the ring of “The Buck stops here.”

UPDATE

Nobama links and also suggests we take a look at Palin’s organizational chart.

Also linked by Not Your Sweetie.

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Comment by CKA in Red State USA

It appears that community organizer Obama will not show respect due to the governor of Alaska.

He is a fool. An arrogant fool. An arrogant fool who continues to mock those of whom he’s afraid. And he is afraid of Sarah Palin.

When he finds the respect to call her governor, I’ll find the resepct to call him senator again.
Comment by CKA in Red State USA

BTW: Perhaps community organizer Obama, or whatever his real name might be, should get one of his ace advisors to look at the annual budget of the state of Alaska, and see what GoV. Palin has had to direct.

Or take a look at the number of agencies which she oversees.

Or the number of employees, compared to his campaign (but not including his shills and shillettes in the wrongly named MSM).

Of course he won’t. Why? He and his campaign lack the honesty and testicularity to do so.
Comment by Adam Graham

You know, as the long as the libs insist on referring to Governor Palin as Mayor of a town of 9,000, we should refer to Obama as a Former Illinois State Senator.
Comment by so saddened

so cooper asks about a comparison with running the state of alaska and the town of wasilla, and obull ignores the state of alaska part…. what else is new? obull and his obulls are trying very hard to get people to forget that palin is the governor of alaska. they just mention the small town mayor thing, the pta thing, etc.

hope their transparent attempts to diminish her do not go unnoticed or unpunished.
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Comment by jack

–same old same old with obama and the media—someone asked if obama was a helpless liar–I would answer that he doesn’t see a difference between the truth and a lie–he just says what will create a certain impression and feeling–and when the facts really work against him then he says something demeaning and silly like his bin laden remark and the mcsame label which is totally inaccurate factually–mccain palin will actually change both sides of the isle–this comment is the usual–if you look at it is proof from his own mouth that all he has done is run for office and become a celebrity with no substance–and proof that he and his group look down on america and americans–he is saying that alaska is insignificant–that small towns are insignificant–and that a person with blue collar roots who does what palin has done is insignificant–and while he is saying this his smoke and mirrors camp is saying that McCain is out of touch—without the max help from the media he could never get away with such contradictions–in the meantime media and obama are taking the points that reveal the harmful truth about obama the most and using them against mccain–mccain has put politics over country–mccain has poor judgment–it is a trick that 4 years olds use but it works in so far as it just creates a very confused environment where voters who don’t have the time or temperament to really study say–”the heck with it I’ll just vote democrat like I always have”–what obama says is an insult to the american public’s intelligence and then the strategies he uses are even more insulting
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Comment by alwyr

I don’t know about other parts of the country, but in Chicago the terms “activist”, “community organizer” means shakedown artist.

BTW, Obama DID in fact control a $100 million budget – when he was Chairman of Wm. Ayers’ Annenberg project to “enhance” the Chicago Pulic Schools. After he and Ayers (”just a guy from the neighborhood” according to B.O.)had spent the $100 million in question, the University of Illinois (Chicago) reported there was no discernible improvement to the Chicago school system. Surprised? You shouldn’t be when it comes to light the vast majority of the $100 million was spent on ‘grants’ to ultras left-wing neighborhood activists”, “reform” groups, etc.

THAT is the extent of O.B.’ “executive experience to date.
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