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Originally Posted by tstew
If I remember correctly, the US Senate meets well in excess of 100 days per year. Obama is also part of several Senate SubCommittees. In addition to this US Senators are involved in a lot of things during the entire year...particularly the rising or prominent ones. I would no more measure a US Senator's experience in "working days" than I would a pastor's by giving him credit for 2 days worth of experience per week.
At the very least if you are going to measure experience in "working days" you at least have to be consistent. When I clicked the link and saw Obama's experience measured in "working days" and McCain's in total years, I had pretty much seen all I cared to see from that particular source.
For the life of me I don't see where the 143 days comes from. I have read 173 days and I don't know where that comes from either.
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Ok fine. I'm not even going to nitpick over how many days it was. That by itself was never my central point.
Not to belabor the point but, even using your estimate that the senate meets easily 100+ days a year, (and the whole "working days" measurement is quite imprecise either way)...
...Governors of every state are in constant meetings and consultations with multiple heads of agencies, cabinet members, other appointees, state legislative leaders, etc, to the extent that it dwarfs the workload and accountabilty level of practically any senator,
especially a junior senator,as Obama was.
Any fair minded view of this should tell us that
Obama's experience level cannot properly be viewed as being vastly superior to Sarah Palin's. But this is how many in the media and the political left wish to portray it, while seemingly oblivious to the proverbial elephant in the room here... which is, that they're comparing the
GOP's #2 person, to the
Democrats' NUMBER ONE person on the ticket.
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