Somebody Please Tell Obama That Palin is a Governor

The meme that Obama campaign is trying to promote is that Sarah Palin is nothing more than a small town mayor. Look how he answered a question from Anderson Cooper on the subject of experience (h/t Michelle Malkin):

AC: Some Republican critics say, you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They’ve in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What’s your response?

BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin’s town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we’ve got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I’ve passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.

I think somebody needs to update Obama's briefing book. You see, most of us know that since January of 2007 she's been the governor of Alaska, not a small town mayor.

And apparently, running a campaign (which you know he doesn't really run - that's why they have campaign managers) is more valuable and qualifying experience than governing a state. That makes as much sense as the people who are claiming that Palin is not qualified because she's never been on Meet the Press.

It's just not believable, and continuing to diminish her political career will further anger people, especially women, who don't like seeing her treated that way.

The McCain campaign is having none of it:

“For Barack Obama to argue that he’s experienced enough to be president because he’s running for president is desperate circular logic and it’s laughable. It is a testament to Barack Obama’s inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin’s executive experience managing a budget of over 10 billion dollar dollars, and more than 24,000 employees.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008