But someone with no experience actually in the office of the presidency? Well, that’s just fine and dandy!

Barack Obama’s campaign is blasting John McCain for putting “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”

The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, comes as Democrats scramble to gather a response to a selection that nobody in the political world expected.

“Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” added Burton.

Does Team Obama possess an advisor with a functioning organ in his skull? They’re going to object to a VP nominee having no foreign policy experience while they run a guy with no foreign policy experience for the presidency? If Joe Biden provides the necessary foreign policy experience as VP for an Obama Administration, why wouldn’t John McCain possess enough foreign policy experience for a McCain Administration?

Ed Morrissey asks exactly what experience Obama has that makes him the Great Pooba of foreign policy. The New York Times provides an answer:

To counter opponents’ accusations that he lacks experience in foreign policy, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois often cites his ties to relatives in poor villages in Kenya and the years he spent growing up in Indonesia. Now he has added a new personal detail to that résumé: a trip to Pakistan while a college student.

He visited Pakistan as a college student, lived in another country for a few years as a child by his mom’s choice, and has relatives in Kenya. Heck of a resume there, Barry. Why, you’re a regular-ole Henry Kissinger.

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