Most Democrats have decided that Palin's biggest drawback is her supposed lack of experience but this seems a little ironic to me considering their Presidential candidate barely has any either.
OBAMA:
He was a community organizer, an attorney and a professor before his public office career. He spent 8 years as Illinois Senator where in his spare time he continued to teach law as a professor at the University of Chicago (life as a Senator must be very time consuming) and started serving the U.S. Senate in 2005, most of which was spent running for President.
PALIN:
Served 4 years in City Council and served 6 years as the mayor. She was the first female governor of Alaska and has substantial experience in private-sector management. She has actually made decisions and formed budgets.
Palin has executive experience which I believe is worth more when considering their running for an executive position and in comparing the two, she has more executive experience than Obama has legislative and executive experience combined. I'm not saying she's more qualified, given her lack of knowledge reagrding foreign policy, I'm just saying that neither seem fit to be President. I've noticed that when people are comparing how little experience Palin has, they always compare her to Obama. With this tactic, it seems to me that those who claim Obama has more experience than her, they are just trying to mask the fact that he is just as inexperienced as Palin. If you haven't noticed, I am comparing Obama to Palin, but truth is, if you compare Obama to McCain, McCain would have the edge hands down (at least in terms of experience).
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I think that there has been so much attention drawn to Sarah Palin because before John McCain picked her as his VP she was virtually unknown in the political world. John McCain has been around for a while (understatement) and Obama is also known on a national level. In terms of experience, I think that although you list many of the factors that would supposedly make Sarah Palin "more experienced" than Obama most of them are on a very very small scale. You start with the fact that she served for 4 years on a City Counci: My grandmother served many years on a city council and at the same time worked full time and spent a lot of time with her 8 grandchildren. You say that Obama continuing his role as a law professor while serving as Senator means that the role must not be very time consuming. I can assure you that city council is way less of a time committment and no offense to my grandmother, but I would NOT want to see her in the role of VP of the United States haha. Also, Palin has made claims that Obama has served some "300" days as a Senator and she has much more experience in her role as Governor (which I think should really be the only experience that qualifies her as VP candidate. However, a recent CNN "truth squad" report found that in actuality Palin served/ legislated/ etc. less days than Barack Obama as a U.S. senator.
I think that on paper, Palin looks "experienced and ready to serve as VP" but in reality, she really doesn't have anything more to bring to the table than the other candidates for President and VP. Also, in Palin's administration she has usually relied heavily on hiring friends or family members or rather firing them as was revealed in her latest "ethics scandal".
However I will say that I think that Palin being compared to Obama is unfair since she in fact is not running for President. If you compare her to Joe Biden though... I don't think her experience record stands a chance.
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