Communications Director Hazelbaker on Obama's Attacks on Palin

All: Please see statement by McCain 2008 Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker on the Obama campaign's attacks on Governor Sarah Palin:

"It is pretty audacious for the Obama campaign to say that Governor Palin is not qualified to be Vice President. She has a record of accomplishment that Senator Obama simply cannot match. Governor Palin has spent her time in office shaking up government in Alaska and actually achieving results -- whether it's taking on corruption, passing ethics reform or stopping wasteful spending and the 'bridge to nowhere.' Senator Obama has spent his time in office running for President." --Jill Hazelbaker, McCain Communications Director

See New York Post on Obama campaign's response:

Losing Their Nerve?

By Charles Hurt

Convention Insider

NYPost.com  August 29, 2008

http://blogs.nypost.com/opinion/hurt/archives/2008/08/losing_their_ne.html

Barack Obama has run a very smart campaign but made one of its dumbest moves yet in response to John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for veep.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.

This insider-Washington drivel from a campaign calling for change? This from the campaign of a guy whose foreign policy experience amounts to little more than a choreographed trip with reporters?

In the first place, inexperience is one thing in the second slot (Palin) while it's an entirely more serious concern in the top slot (Obama).

Also, to dismiss Palin's executive service as governor is completely out of touch. "Governor" has always been a tremendous plus for presidential candidates in America while there really is no category for "community organizer."

What's amazing about this statement is not just that it was so stupid but that it was part of a PREPARED statement.