Experience Math II: I've been continuing to think on the absurdity of the claim that Sarah Palin's experience as an executive trumps Obama's experience as a legislator. The whole argument comes down to an assertion that it doesn't matter what that experience is -- Palin has no foreign policy experience of any kind, but Obama has served on the Foreign Relations committee -- all that matters is whether it's executive experience or the vastly inferior legislative experience.
I recognize that in my original post, I failed to include Palin's service as mayor of the metropolis of Wasilla, Alaska. So, in the interests of fairness, let's re-run the numbers accounting for her entire executive experience. The new equation would be:
6X > 11Y
That reduces to:
X > 1.8333
Let's be generous and just round that up to 2.5. The results for both tickets would be:
| McCain | : | 10.4 |
| Palin | : | 6 |
| Total | : | 16.4 |
| | | |
| Obama | : | 4.4 |
| Biden | : | 14 |
| Total | : | 18.4 |
So, it really doesn't change anything. The Democratic ticket still has more executive-equivalent years of experience, which just goes to show how absurd the whole attempt at painting Palin's experience as comparable to Obama's, Biden's and McCain's really is.
As if one needed any more evidence than the initial concept itself!
