Enough of this. She's not qualfied.

The Palin shows continues in the media unabated. What great fodder for the media. However, I'm frustrated and already tired of this. Are we really debating the qualifications of Palin versus Obama? If you had two interviewees for a job at your company, one worked as manager at a Taco Bell and the other just finished their MBA from a top school who would you hire? Even if my business was selling taco sauce, I would still take the MBA! Folks, running the back sale at the PTA meeting is not the same thing as running a country.

In retrospect, it was a brilliant Karl Rove move to insist on her selection. Not because she is brilliant and be a great VP, but because selecting her does exactly what the RNC party needs to win the election; distract Americans from real issues and get them focused on highly emotional, faith based politics. They are masters at this tactic.

A friend sent me this polling website and asked me to vote 'no' to Palin. No problem, you don't need to ask me twice to do that. But then I took a minute and read the attached debate between Gloria Feldt and Rep. Michele Bachmann over her qualifications, character and treatment in the media. Gloria Feldt is an activist, author and blogger and Michele Bachmann is the first Republican woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota.

I was really surprised to see such little substance. Read it for yourself;

PBS interview

Is this election really about the glass ceiling for women and whether or not hockey moms are getting a fair shake in corporate America and world? Although important; wouldn't it maybe be more important to discuss, oh I don't know; iraq policy, energy crisis, this little banking meltdown we are having, surging entitlment costs, etc.?

To answer the question, she's not qualified. Have you listened to her speak? She doesn't have a clue what's going on in the world. Take a look at her profile I found in Wikipedia and don't tell me this impresses you:

Palin wikipedia post

Here are some highlights from her distinguished academic career:
In 1982, Palin enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College but left after her first semester. From there she transferred to North Idaho College, where she spent two semesters as a general studies major. From the community college she then transferred to the much larger University of Idaho for two semesters.[11][12] During this time Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant beauty contest,[13][14] then finished third (second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant,[15][16] at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.[17] She then left the University of Idaho and attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term. The next year she returned to the University of Idaho where she spent three semesters completing her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.[11][12]

Now let's take a look at our little community organizer Obama:

obama wikipedia

Obama graduated from Columbia and then attended Harvard Law School. " Beginning in 1992, Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, being first classified as a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and then as a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004.[25]"

Hmmm, I would say he is just a bit more qualified than our moose shooting Governor from Alaska. Just a little.