HOW TO UNSPIN: EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE + PALIN'S FLIP-FLIP ON OBAMA

This bears repeating. So I'll repeat it:

JOHN MCCAIN HAS ZERO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE.

Seriously, he doesn't. Of course, no one in the GOP is mentioning this in their talking points. You know why?

Because "executive experience" as defined by their rhetoric refers exclusively to people who've been a mayor or governor (or president). So it doesn't matter how much leadership experience you have, or economic experience or foreign policy/relations experience, et. al. In a desperate grab to make Palin seem more qualified than she is, the GOP has created this ridiculous talking point about "executive experience" that's pure semantics and no substance. If executive experience is what matters why is McCain on this bill? He has no executive experience. (Just keep saying this to any McCain backer you meet. It's fun.)

And this is just marvelous.Here's Palin, two weeks ago, giving Obama some respect without any hint of sarcasm or disingenuity.

"Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ ”—the Democratic candidate—“ ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”

They need to run this speech as a pro-Obama ad, stat!

--O.W.