It's interesting ... they keep pushing that Palin has more "executive experience" ... If you were

[zbdent]

hiring someone to run something, an MBA would be a big plus, right?

So, George W. Bush had his MBA (stand for "my butt's assured"?), and he has not been the head of one money-making business IN HIS LIFE ...

[Vinca]

1. It depends on whether your MBA was earned or bought. nt

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Experience, intelligence, blah, blah....

Both things are subjective, IMHO.

Being INFORMED - truly informed, from multiple sources - is different, however. And, it is what the McCain-Palin ticket is lacking (not to mention integrity, wisdom, etc.).

They and their ilk are NOT INFORMED AND THEY ARE DISINTERESTED, and they're proud of it!

[No Elephants]

3. Dummya had not only an MBA. He had 8 years as Governor of Texas, not 20

months--and he's created the biggest messes this country has ever seen. Just think of the messes someone with only 20 months as Governor will create!

[mrcheerful]

4. Come on now it works for the sheeple, heck tell sheeple that the earth is 6,000 years old they might

believe it! Oh wait just in, conservatives believe earth is only 6,000 years old, 9 out of 10. Damn some people believe anything. Next thing you know we will be told Jesus rode dinosaurs and T-Rex was a vegetarian that Noah saved on the ark from the great flood. Sorry but to hope for the human race to wise up is almost like asking Santa for a pony, It won't happen unless they get off their dead asses and stop looking to others for their life answers. Just cause a guy in a funny hat or a guy in a business suite that puts a title in front of their name, doesn't mean they are any smatter it just means they are better bull shiters then you are.

[RichGirl]

5. She has had executive experience as...

...as a little fish in a big pond. When she was mayor the pop. of Wasilla was 5,600. A town that small is really not that hard to run. I lived in a town with 9,000 people and they never had a mayor at all. They had an administrator and it was a part time job. Most small towns have a mayor OR an administrator. When Palin became mayor she hired an administrator. So they had two people doing one part time job.

As for her Governor experience...the pop. of Alaska is equivolent to a smallish city. It is one TENTH of New York City. The people of Alaska elected her for the same reason that we "elected" Bush...he was one of us. Her poll numbers in Alaska have dropped almost 20 pts since she became VP selection. Apparently the people weren't aware of what a bad job she was doing.

Everybody has experience of some kind, but that doesn't mean it was GOOD experience. I worked at a bank for over five years...I hated it and sucked at it. Anybody hiring me on my BANKING EXPERIENCE would quickly regret it!!!

[zbdent]

10. Her "executive experience" sounds like regular "business executive experience"

hiring someone else to do the work that you're supposed to do ...

[City Lights]

6. If executive experience is so important to them, why is she on the bottom of

the ticket? She's got more executive experience than McNasty.

As you pointed out, they pushed the same BS in 2000. Dubya had executive experience as governor, he was the first MBA president, and look where that got us. An MBA from Harvard ain't what it used to be.

[Smart Guy 4 Freedom]

7. Experience?

The reason she was picked was that when she was elected to the Mayors job the city (small town of 5600)she had a surplus but when she was elected to the governors job she had put the city into 20 million debt! OF COURSE SHE IS QUALIFIED....NOW Just translate that to the Nations Treasury !!!!! Frightening isn't it????

[quantass]

8. MBA is useless ... majority of successful businesses never required it.

I remember a program on Frontline where a guy analysed people with/without MBA's and overwhelmingly this paper ment nothing..if anything it hurt your chances of succeeding...Bush is just yet another statistic to this fact.

Dont get me wrong, im sure it means something, somewhere, but honestly research wise to make a successful business, it doesnt help much.

[nyhuskyfan]

9. I don't understand when this became relevant

Kerry-Edwards had none and it was never even brought up in 2004. Dole-Kemp had none and I can't remember Clinton or Gore ever mentioning it.

Now all of a sudden it becomes an issue because they are trying to prop up a thin resume.

[zbdent]

11. The MBA didn't come up because the media was buying into the b.s. that

a decorated vietnam veteran was less heroic than a guy who spent Vietnam at the bottom of a bottle defending the U.S. from his comfy stateside home ...

[justiceischeap]

12. Let's concede that she has more executive experience than ANYONE in this election

That said, it still doesn't mean that she's ready, intelligent, curious, well-versed in any kind of policy, or capable of being the head of a tractor pull let alone VEEP.

They can beat the experience drum all they want but let the facts speak for themselves, she's an idiot who happens to have executive experience.

[CakeGrrl]

13. The obvious counter: She's under active investigation for *abusing* that executive power

I don't know why surrogates aren't countering with this. It's not taboo just because the in-the-tank MSM is trying to ignore it. It's an ongoing, bipartisan investigation opened before she was tapped as VP. People need to be reminded (or enlightened) about her less-than-stellar record as an "executive".

[Efilroft Sul]

14. Those "masters of the universe" who wrecked the banking industry have exec experience, too.

Some of the worst people in businesses are the executives. I say that not out of jealousy for the money they make, but because their ethics are absolutely horrid. My former company's CEO instrumented a backdated stock option plan, the board of directors looked the other way, and all are still walking the streets while dozens of my friends and coworkers lost their jobs.

Another reason why I hate the argument for politicians to have executive experience is that those people speaking for the executives don't want to see Mr. Smith go to Washington. Given the cesspool that is D.C., I can certainly understand why Mr. (or Ms.) Smith wouldn't even want to go anywhere near Washington, but there are still enough citizens out there who aspire to serve their country and represent their neighbors in Congress.

Advocates of executive experience don't like Mr. Smith and don't even want to see him attend a single Georgetown cocktail party. It all makes you wonder who the elitists really are.