I like to cheer for the underdog. In life we see underdogs succeed when almost everything and everyone is against them. We cheer for them. We say “nice try” when they fail. We cheer loudly when they succeed.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is an underdog. She’s a fresh face in national politics, but about 80% (as of late July 2008) of the folks in her state of Alaska think favorably of her.

Today we see on TV and read on the Internet lots of hatred toward Governor Palin. Of course, MSNBC’s Countdown (the place for all things Obama) led the charge for Obama Nation.

Earlier today, the Obama campaigned fired a shot quickly at her saying she was the Mayor of a small town in Alaska. The Obama campaign failed to mention her current office which is the Governor of Alaska. Later in the day, after starting to see the fallout from his campaign’s stupid remarks, Obama called and congratulated Palin for being selected as McCain’s running mate. That was a gentlemanly thing to do.

Maybe Obama’s campaign failed to mention Palen’s present position because of her Chief Executive experience of running a town and now a state, because this shows that she has more experience of running a government than Obama, Biden, and yes, McCain. Oh yes, she was a council member, too, starting in 1992.

We hear often that all politics are local. She has more experience in this arena than the boys. Since she has held elected office since 1992, she has the upper hand in experience over Obama, who was first elected to the state legislature in 1996.

People say, “Barack Obama is a U.S. Senator!” Obama has been a U.S. Senator since January 2005. For 19 of those months he’s been on the road campaigning for President. He’s spent about 100 days actually in the senate out of three years.

We’ll hear and read a lot about Governor Palin in the upcoming 60 some days. Her biggest challenge will be the debate with Senator Joe Biden. By the way, Senator Joe Biden’s biggest challenge will be his debate with Governor Palin.

Note to Obama-Biden: America loves an underdog.