According to HuffPo, the McCain folks didn't do an archives search of Palin's hometown newspaper, the Valley Frontiersman ("Local News Covering Wasilla and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley"). Given how much of Palin's career was spent in Wasilla politics (and the minimal cover of Wasilla politics in Anchorage paper) this seems to be a really critical oversight. Growing up in Oswego the Pal-Times was the place to go for dirt on the local electeds. Weren't the McCain folks worried about potential scandals involving staffing for the municipal hockey rink? Accusations about mismanaging the budget for parks and recreation? Confrontations within the PTA over who has to bring the brownies?
In all seriousness, the failure to have somebody look into the details of Palin's time as Mayor of Wasilla belies the McCain camp's statements that it actually constitutes experience. They clearly didn't think that being mayor of a 5,500 person town was important, so I'm not sure why they think voters should believe them when they talk up Palin's "experience."
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It seems to me the McCain camp or the GOP just adopted their own criterion for judging what constitutes as "experience". If they say "country first," what do they care about the country when they pick someone so inexperienced to protect the nation and put its itnerests ahead? Are they referring to "Red Country" and not the United States of America by picking a very inexperienced pol with very conservative credentials that appear to only please Red America and put its itnerests ahead of our United States of America we love and care about deeply?
Williams! I found this blog via a link on NBC. You sure have a large audience! Seriously though, if the democrats can't win this election, they do not deserve to be a party.
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