Obama's right. Running a national campaign for a year and a half now is certainly a greater test of one's executive acumen that being mayor of a town of 6,000.
Is it really that convenient to ignore Palin's time as Governor?
A governor, in a state with extreme weather, for one winter, has more disaster experience than Obama.
A snowstorm in Alaska hardly qualifies as a disaster. Just because warmer areas might be screwed because they don't have the snowplows and general knowledge to deal with a major snowstorm does not mean that it would be anything unusual in Alaska. Most of the population of Alaska is near certain cities, anyways. I hardly think that this sort of experience qualifies her to be Vice President.
We're not talking about VP experience , only experience in regard to disasters.
Snow shuts everything down (and this is from a guy that grew up in Western Pennylvania mountains). Transportation gets killed; power goes out. It's nasty. Unless the last two winters in Alaska were exceptionally warm, Palin wins that one (Obama shoving, or paying someone, his front walk, doesn't count).
I'd suspect there were other as well; flooding possibly.
I've been through 40 inches of snow in upstate NY. It's an experience, but it hardly qualifies as a disaster. Upstate NY is just better at dealing with this than places further south, and Alaska would be better yet. This has nothing to do with who is governor, it's the local community that does the snowplowing.
