When logic isn't

So apparently tonight on Anderson Cooper Barrack Obama will claim that he has more experience that Sarah Palin. To prove his point he will offer up the fact that he has managed his large Presidential campaign.

Here's how The Hill reports it:

Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) said in an interview with CNN that he is more experienced than Palin, the Arizona senator's running mate, because his campaign has a budget much larger that the small Alaska town where Palin was mayor.
 

Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, said in a statement that Obama's argument is "laughable," and he cited Palin's state-level experience.

“For Barack Obama to argue that he’s experienced enough to be president because he’s running for president is desperate circular logic and it’s laughable," Bounds said. "It is a testament to Barack Obama’s inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Gov. Sarah Palin’s executive experience managing a budget of over $10 billion and more than 24,000 employees."

The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Obama earlier said in the interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that his "understanding is that Gov. Palin's town of Wasilla has I think 50 employees."

"We've got 2,500 in this campaign," Obama said. "I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years."

So basically he is saying "The experience of running my campaign for the Presidency has provided me with enough experience to be President." That logic is circular and would be laughed out of any high school debate class.

However it is a good exercise in comparing Palin and Obama. Obama fully admits that most of his experience has been undertaking the process of getting elected for one office or another. Palin, on the other hand, has a record of successful reform that she ran for office to achieve. In other words Obama has used 'Change' as an agenda to get himself elected while Palin has gotten elected in order to actually change things. Please note that Palin's desire for reform is reflected in her non-elected positions as well as her time in public office. See the difference?