Palin vs. Obama

I’m getting a lot of email grief for writing : "There’s a not-implausible case to be made that Sarah Palin has more experience than ... Barack Obama!" And maybe rightly so - blog in haste, repent at leisure. At the very least, there’s no question that Barack Obama has spent more time preparing for high office than Sarah Palin: He’s been prepping himself for a race like this since he first entered politics, in some sense, and he’s just endured the rigors of a long Presidential campaign - which forces you, as Ezra rightly notes , to get up to speed on a host of issues that most state-level politicians don’t spend very much time thinking about. So what was I thinking when I wrote the line above? Just this: That in terms of actual governance, as opposed to the mix of issue-studying and campaigning that Obama’s been immersed in, Palin’s resume and Obama’s aren’t wildly dissimilar. She ran her first race in 1992; he ran his firs...