NOT SMART

Posted at 6:03 p.m. ET

The Obama campaign's first reaction to Sarah Palin reveals an absence of thought, to put it mildly:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her "zero" foreign policy experience.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.

Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.

"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," he said.

Let's see.  In one announcement the Obama crowd insulted 1) small-town American, 2) the accomplishments of a woman and 3) their own presidential candidate, who has zero foreign-policy experience. 

You'd think, after what they did to Hillary Clinton, that they'd be sensitive about the choice of a woman, and offer gracious congratulations.  Bottom line, these guys are coarse Chicago politicians, and that's all they'll ever be.

August 29, 2008.