The Audacity of Hype tries the “experience” card again – and fails

Barack Obama played the experience card once more in comparing himself to Governor Palin (he does remember he’s running against John McCain, right?), and manages to foul it up (Ed Morrisey – Hot Air - via Weekly Standard):

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.

It didn’t take long for McCain’s people to slap this nonsense down (Morrisey again):

“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 (sic), and more than 24,000 employees.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008

More to the point, Obama wasn’t managing a campaign until he launched his exploratory committee in January 2007 (CNN), by which point Sarah Palin had already been Governor of Alaska for more than a month (Chris Boese).

So, to recap, as the Audacity of Hype himself has acknowledged, Governor Palin has overseen nearly ten times the number of employees as his campaign has, with a budget more than twenty times the size of his campaign’s by his own calculation, and for one month longer than his campaign has been in existence.

In other words, Obama just acknowledged he’s lessexperienced than Governor Palin.