Experience and Judgment

When people accused Barack Obama about his manifest lack of experience, Obama basically conceded the point. He said it wasn't about experience but about judgment. Now comes Sarah Palin to shake up the presidential race, and suddenly the Obama campaign is harping, not about her judgment, but her experience. Stooping to counting days actually served (Obama has apparently served a few more), they say Palin is too green to serve "a heartbeat away" from the presidency.

However, Palin has Obama beat on both experience and judgment. Experience: She is an elected mayor and governor, two executive positions the community organizer and state senator from Chicago never sniffed. She also has a record of accomplishment he can't touch. Judgment: Obama has proposed all sorts of expensive programs for children, yet he has supported bills to kill children outside the womb who have survived attempted abortions. Palin, meanwhile, elected to carry a Down syndrome child to term in her own body and raise that child herself. Now that's judgment. (And experience.)