Saturday, March 22, 2008

Who's An Expert?

Powerline said it:

By the way, it's amusing to hear Obama attack McCain based on the Arizona Senator's "straight talk" about his lack of economic expertise. It would be interesting to learn Obama's basis for claiming superior expertise in this area. Obama has been a law professor (sort of), a "community organizer," an Illinois legislator, and a less-than-one-term U.S. Senator with no distinct track record on economic matters. Indeed, Obama's economic experience appears limited to home economics -- specifically his family's struggle, as his wife tells it, to get by on half a million dollars of annual income (the one million dollars or more the Obama's make, minus the book revenue Michelle says keeps the family's head above water).

In other words, the only advantage Obama has over McCain when it comes to economic expertise is his immodesty.

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