Experience - a Comparison

From my friend Jeff:

McCain says that Obama isn't "experienced". Most others say that Palin isn't experienced. Let's look at a timeline and compare and contrast, shall we?

 

1979

• Obama a backbencher on high school basketball team that wins state championship

1982

• Palin captain on high school basketball team that wins state championship

 

1983

• Obama graduates from Columbia University. Works for a business research company, then becomes community organizer in poor section of Chicago.

1984

• Palin wins "Miss Wasilla" pageant and places second in statewide beauty contest.

 

1987

• Palin graduates from University of Idaho, works in television sports and family fishing business.

1988

• Obama enters Harvard Law School.

 

1990

• Obama becomes first black editor of prestigious Harvard Law Review.

1992

• Obama runs Project Vote!, which registers 150,000 new voters in Chicago, then begins teaching law at University of Chicago.

• Palin wins city council seat in Wasilla, an Alaska town of about 5,500.

1993

• Obama joins law firm specializing in civil rights cases.

1995

• Obama publishes "Dreams from My Father," a well-reviewed memoir about growing up in America with an absent African father.

 

1996

• Obama elected a state senator.

• Palin elected mayor of Wasilla.

 

2000

• Obama defeated in effort to unseat U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

2002

• Obama speaks out against invading Iraq.

• Palin loses Republican primary for Alaska lieutenant governor

 

2003

• In biggest year of his legislative career, Obama passes legislation requiring police to record interrogations in murder cases, collect data on race of drivers they pull over.

• Palin appointed to Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

 

2004

• Obama delivers keynote address at Democratic convention, elected to U.S. Senate.

• Palin investigates conduct of a commission member, who ultimately resigns. She later files ethics complaint against state's Republican attorney general, who also resigns.

2006

• Obama publishes "The Audacity of Hope," a book detailing his views on national affairs.

• Palin elected first female governor of Alaska.

 

2007

• Obama launches presidential campaign.

• Palin overhauls state ethics laws, pushes to build a natural gas pipeline despite opposition from oil industry.

 

2008

• Obama wins marathon Democratic primary against Hillary Rodham Clinton and raises record amounts of money

• Alaska legislators probe whether Palin improperly pressured officials to fire her sister's ex-husband, a state trooper.

 

Governor Palin TRULY is the loser in the compare and contrast and Fox Noise and the Rep Party's claims that she is more experienced than Obama.