Answer: "I guess a small-town mayor is like a community organizer, only you have actual responsibilties" - Sarah Palin, 9/3/08.
Before you can counter this argument, you need to understand it. To understand it, you need to know both Palin's experience and Obama's.
Obama's goes something like this:
Prior to being elected to the state senate, Obama worked as an attorney, a professor, and a "community organizer" - essentially meaning he got people to register to vote. He began serving the state senate in 1997 and was reelected twice (2 year terms). In 2000 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, and lost by a margin of 2-1. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and on 2/10/07 he announced his candidacy for presidency, meaning that he was a Senator for only 750 days before announcing his run for the presidency - not even halfway through his first Senate term.
Sarah Palin's history is a little different...:
Palin served in the Wasilla PTA, worked as a sportscaster and journalist and then served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska City Council from 1992 to 1996. She then won two terms as mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 while also serving as Ethics Supervisor of the commission.
In November 2006, Palin was elected the governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman and youngest person to hold the office. She defeated incumbent Republican goverin the Republican primary and former democratic governor Tony Knowles in the General election, garnering 48.3% of the vote.
What does this actually mean? It means that Sarah Palin has executive experience - she knows how to run things. Obama's experience is legislative and that's not really what a president does, is it? She governed and he...what? Wrote a few bills and gave a few speeches, and got elected. Palin wasn't looking for fame or fortune or visibility. She was a concerned citizen who did/does what she could/can to make things better. She has a big family who isn't perfect, but who she loves and cares for and works hard for. Plus, she's a true maverick - she went against corrupt politicians regardless of their party affiliation. Obama did not - he used corruption to gain favors (Think Tony Rezko and the housing scandal...Rezko gave the Obama's a $300,000 deal on their house.)
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