John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate is a bit awkward for Barack Obama. He would like to argue that she is too inexperienced, but that underscores his own deficit of experience. Time magazine notes that in a CNN interview, Obama tried to argue that he should get credit for his time as a candidate:
Obama: Well, my understanding is that Gov. Palin’s town of Wasilla has I think 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years.
By this standard, if you’ve been unemployed for five years but spent the time sending out résumés and job applications, you get credit for five years’ experience in the workplace. And the most qualified man in America to be president is Lyndon LaRouche.
Lyn Marcus says:
Holy smokes Margaret, the Larouche cult really is bat sh*t Crazy to not see what is obviously a joke in that column.
The Larouche cult is down to a few college drop outs who obviously dropped out of basic English class.
Speaking of corruption Margaret, how much of the 30 million dollars that was stolen by the cult and Larouche has been paid back ? Your cult has had over 25 years to make ammends. Larouche is the convicted felon who has been running a cult of comedy for 40 + years by using a basic formula of having a never ending apacolytpic collapse, thermonuclear war threats or a New Dark Ages, always involving The Jews of course for the gullible and naive.
To see what the cult is up to as Larouche prepares the koolaid in LarouchTown, please check out these sites.
laroucheplanet.info
http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org
http://factnet.org ....look under "social discussions" for 5K of posts about this lunacy.
Margaret, It is never too late to come to your senses and leave a cult like this. This cult/con man has spent 281 million dollars so far on his delusions.
Molly Kronberg says:
Margaret, let me add a point to the one Lyn Marcus makes:
LaRouche's lack of judgment is so profound one can call it either insanity or, now that he's 86, senility. He's been running around "organizing" in the U.S. since the '60s--so, for 40 years at least--and after all that, all he has in his "organization" is a handful of depressed and reviled Baby Boomers and a handful of confused and brainwashed youth.
I hold LaRouche personally responsible for the death of my husband, Kenneth Kronberg, in April 2007--Ken was a longtime follower of LaRouche's, and a leader in the organization, and I have so much dirt on LaRouche it would make your hair (if straight) curl, or (if curly) stand on end.
LaRouche has the blood of a number of people on his hands, including Ken and including Jeremiah Duggan, a young Englishman who attended a LaRouche conference in Germany in 2003 and wound up dead in the street, after having been held incommunicado, as far as I can tell, by LaRouche supporters.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_...
Now in the Wikipedia entries you will see all sorts of pro-LaRouche claptrap, but there are also some useful facts there.
No, Margaret, LaRouche is NOT qualified to be President. He belongs under intensive therapy somewhere where he can't hurt any more people.
And remember, Margaret, I knew LaRouche personally way better than you ever did.
Also--A small but important benefit: if you quit the cult now you can reclaim your sense of humor.
Margaret says:
Molly, aside from being evil, rotten and dirty, your problem is and always was that you are UGLY as SIN. Girl, you were whooped with the ugly stick! Dante needs to come back to create a new circle in Hell just for you.
Margaret says:
Well, whether you like it or not, Mr. Taranto, you're quite right! Mr. LaRouche IS the most qualified to be President, but unfortunately, he's too old, and the media is too corrupt, and Wall Street and it's British backers don't want an FDR type genius who loves mankind in the White House. After all, the ability of speculators to contine to enrich themselves by stealing and looting and gambling is eminently threatened by the likes of LaRouche, and the specter of FDR.
Hopefully, we can save the nation despite the lack of qualified presidential candidates currently in the running.