I like the choice, I'm not crazy about some of her policies but I think its a great choice for him. I think she is easily qualified for the VP-spot and I would say at least as qualified as Obama for the P-spot. With that said experience isn't the only thing that matters to me, I also want to know about the quality of experience and I've been impressed with what I've seen from Palin so far...but I still want to see more...after all if she is potentially going to be a heartbeat away from the presidency I would like to know a lot more about her.
My big problem with Obama's experience goes back to the fact that one of his executive positions in Chicago was as the first Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. From what I've read on the issue they took bids from various education groups to improve the abysmal education system in Chicago. They spent some 110 million dollars on various projects largely to no effect (this is supposedly their own conclusion). Now the Annenberg thing is a *very* sensitive subject amongst Obama supporters because of the Ayers connections but I honestly don't care about what Ayers did in the 60's..I don't think there is any way to connect Obama to that..but what Ayers and his family have done in Chicago in the 90s when Obama was clearly working with them on some level within that community is a legit topic of discussion and the fact that Obama seems to avoid it makes me suspicious and want answers about it.
Also interestingly FactCheck.org is a pogram of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and is primarily funded by the Annenberg Foundation which ran the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that Obama was Chairman of. Now that doesn't mean that everything they put out is biased (and this may not be news to some) but it is the sort of thing that should be disclosed openly when they are vetting info of a political nature.
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