> > Well, not really. It took electronic communications > > to do that in a big way. > > Curtis wrote: > So before electronic communication someone couldn't > become an expert in a field by reading books and > publications? One couldn't for example become an > expert in the energy issues of Alaska without living > there? You would need to live in Alaska to have access > to the relevant printed material before electronic > communication? I do not agree. > Sarah Palin knows more about Alaskan energy production than Joe Biden, that's probably a fact. From what I've read, Biden knows next to nothing about energy production in Alaska or anywhere else. No matter how many books Biden might read about Alaskan energy production, Sarah Palin knows more because she is the Governor and her family work directly in the energy fields of Alaska.
"Local government experience means an immersion in the real problems of real people as well as with a myriad of issues from the details of budgets for road maintenance and police and fire forces, to the land use issues I mentioned above, to parks and recreation and school construction issue issues." Read more: 'Palin By Comparison' by Hugh Hewitt Townhall, Sunday, August 31, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5uqpog
