#33 According to The Frontiersman—Wasilla’s local newspaper—Sarah Palin’s response upon being questioned about her readiness for the role of mayor was that “it’s not rocket science.”
And yet, this is the very experience that Palin most often references when citing her qualifications to be vice president. The current mayor of Wasilla, Dianne Keller, agrees. In a statement given to The Washington Post, Keller states that, “Executive experience is executive experience. Whether you are a mayor or a governor or an executive at a company, the duties and responsibilities are the same.”
The same? What an interesting premise. We guess that means the owner of the local Waffle House franchise is qualified to be president as well.
Rocket Science Governance
But for the moment, let’s give both mayors—past and present—the benefit of the doubt. If correct, there’s no difference in the experience necessary to govern a city of 5,500 people, whose biggest concern is how much their new hockey rink is going to cost, and overseeing a nation of more than 300,000,000 citizens whose military is immersed in a war which—by definition—has no specific target, boundary, or means of determining victory. And the national debt? Ah, it’s all just numbers …
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