The Candidate B.S.
September 6th, 2008 Posted in Politics and Religion
According to Sarah Palin:
Obama has no executive experience (psst, guess what, neither does McCain)
Joe Biden has sat in Senate for 25+ years (psst, guess what, so has McCain)
She was a mayor of a town of 5,000, that’s like a community organizer, but with real responsibilities.
None of the candidates are really "experienced" enough if the main criteria is executive office, so I guess you’ll have to decide based on other experience, education, etc. or on their positions.
If only they’d stop bashing each other and talk about them.
John McCain
- McCain graduated 5th from last (849th out of 899) From The Naval Academy, and no one seems to know what his degree is in.
- He was in the Navy for 22 years and quit when he didn’t get promoted to Admiral in 1981
- After leaving the Navy he was VP of Public Relations for his father in laws company.
- He was elected US Senator in 1983.
- He was a member of the 1991–1993 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs
- Since January 1993, McCain has been Chairman of the International Republican Institute
Misc. B.S.
- He divorced his first wife after admitting he cheated on her and asked for divorce to marry his current wife.
- He was a Member of The Keating Five (The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989) he was cleared but was mildly rebuked for exercising "poor judgment"
- He and his wife brought an abandoned three-month old girl needing medical treatment to the U.S. from a Bangladeshi orphanage run by Mother Teresa and adopted her.
- In 1997 Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most Influential People in America"
—————————————————
Sarah Palin
- Palin graduated from University of Idaho in 1987 with a Bachelors in Journalism
- She was a sports reporter for 4 years.
- From 1992 to 2001 she was in offices in a town of 7,000 people, both as City Council member and Mayor.
- From 2002 to 2004 she was Ethics Officer and Chairman of The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
- From 2003 to 2005 she served in a 527 group, Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc. that was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in Alaska
- From Dec. 2006 until now she has been Governor of Alaska.
Misc. B.S.
- Palin admits to smoking marijuana as a youth, during the time Alaska had decriminalized possession, though she says she did not enjoy it.
- Palin hired the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for earmarks (some of which were criticized by John McCain)
- Palin is under investigation by the Alaska Legislature
- Palin’s oldest son is to be deployed to Iraq in Sept. 2008
- In 1984 she finished 2nd in the Miss Alaska contest
——————————————————————-
Barack Obama
- Obama Graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelors in Political Science, specializing in International Relations
- He Graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude, specializing in Constitutional Law.
- He worked for Business International Corporation and New York Public Interest Research Group for 4 years (combined)
- From June 1985 to May 1988 he was director of the Developing Communities Project
- He was a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute From 1985 until 1988
- He was a Lawyer for Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.
- He directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992
- He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004)
- He was a Civil Rights Lawyer from 1993 to 2004
- He was a founding member of the board of directors of Public Allies in 1992
- He served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993–2002
- He served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation from 1994–2002
- He served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999.
- He served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- He served on the board of directors of the Center for Neighborhood Technology
- He served on the board of directors of the Lugenia Burns Hope Center.
- He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996 and served until 2004
- In January 2003, He became chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee.
- He was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on January 4, 2005.
- He was on the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations
- He was on the Senate Committee for Environment and Public Works
- He was on the Senate Committee for Veterans’ Affairs
- He was also Chairman of the Senate’s subcommittee on European Affairs
Misc. B.S.
- Obama admitted that during high school he used marijuana, cocaine, and alcohol
- During his first year at Harvard Law School he was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review
- In his second year at Harvard Law School he was elected president of the Law Review
- He set the record for fund raising by a presidential campaign in the first six months of the calendar year before the election
- In January 2008, his campaign set another fund raising record for the most ever raised in one month by a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries.
- He again broke fund raising records in the first two months of 2008
- On June 19, Obama became the first major-party presidential candidate to turn down public financing in the general election since the system was created in 1976.
————————————————–
Joe Biden
- Joe Biden graduated from University of Delaware in 1965 with a double major Bachelors in History and Political Science.
- He Graduated from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 with a Juris Doctor
- In 1969 He practiced Law in Delaware
- In 1970 he was elected elected to the New Castle County, County Council where he served until 1972
- In 1973 he was elected US Senator
- Since 1991, Biden has also served as a professor at the Widener University School of Law. He teaches a seminar on constitutional law.
- He is a long-time member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which he chaired from 1987 until 1995 and on which he served as ranking minority member from 1981 until 1987 and again from 1995 until 1997.
- He is also a long-time member and current chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Misc. B.S.
- Biden was the 5th youngest elected Senator ever (elected when he was 30, the minimum age)
- He is considered one of the least wealthy members of the Senate
- In 1974 he was named one of the 200 Faces for the Future by Time magazine
- He helped create the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law, and the landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994
- His Oldest son is being deployed to Iraq in Oct. 2008
