It's Obama who lacks executive experience
Thomas F. Schaller, The Baltimore Sun's cookie-cutter liberal columnist, took Sen. John McCain to task for his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate ("Dems, don't take the bait," Commentary, Sept. 3).
According to Mr. Schaller, the message of the Palin choice "is that Mr. McCain is more worried about losing this November than leaving the country in untested hands, were he to win the election and at some point either die or resign."
Mr. Schaller sticks to his argument but ignores facts that belie his thesis.
If any candidate is more worried about losing this November than leaving the country in untested hands, it would be Sen. Barack Obama, who has no executive experience whatsoever; has sponsored no significant legislation in his first uncompleted term as a U.S. senator; has spent more time campaigning for president than representing his state as its junior senator; sponsored no significant legislation as an Illinois state senator; and wrote no articles as a faculty member or as editor of his law review.
The difference is that if the Republicans won, the country would be in the relatively untested hands of Mrs. Palin, the only one of the four major-party candidates for president and vice president with actual executive experience in politics, if Mr. McCain died or resigned, while on the Democratic side, the country would be in Mr. Obama's untested hands on Inauguration Day.
Douglas Dribben, Woodstock
Palin's one-liners won't solve problems
We don't need one more day of the Republicans' smarmy arrogance and divisiveness, which was adopted as a policy by President Bush and is now personified by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin ("Palin fires back," Sept. 4).
We need some true leadership to address crucial issues, not one-liners that demean the very system that made it possible for her to be at the podium.
I'd rather vote for a pit bull.
Timothy Smith, Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Sen. McCain's choice shows poor judgment
We Democrats now have a two-word refutation of Sen. John McCain's claim to superior judgment: "Sarah Palin" ("Unwed daughter pregnant, Palin says," Sept. 2).
Grenville B. Whitman, Rock Hall
