Historians who told Poltico Palin most unqualified candidate in history include Obama donors
Furthering the Obama campaign’s complaints about McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) inexperience, Politico’s Fred Barbash and David Mark turned to presidential historians for comment, who panned the wisdom of McCain’s pick.
Yet as an e-mail tipster to NewsBusters pointed out, two of the historians critical of Palin’s “lack of experience” donated money to Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Our tipster was too generous.
When I went to check out at about 10 p.m., I found the following update appended to their August 30 article, “Scholars question Palin credentials.”:
UPDATE: After reading this article, the McCain campaign issued the following statement: “The authors quote four scholars attacking Gov. Palin’s fitness for the office of vice president. Among them, David Kennedy is a maxed-out Obama donor, Joel Goldstein is also an Obama donor, and Doris Kearns Goodwin has donated exclusively to Democrats this cycle. Finally, Matthew Dallek is a former speech writer for Dick Gephardt. This is not a story about scholars questioning Gov. Palin’s credentials so much as partisan Democrats who would find a reason to disqualify or discount any nominee put forward by Sen. McCain.”