McCain: False claim about experience

REPUBLICAN presidential candidate John McCain says his vice-presidential pick, Sarah Palin, was already an experienced government official while his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, was working as a community organiser.

She wasn’t. Palin was finishing college, getting married and working as a TV sportscaster when Obama was directing a church-based community group on Chicago’s south side in 1985-88.

McCain sought to make the comparison in an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, criticising Obama as too inexperienced to be in the White House despite his choice of a running mate who’s also being called too unseasoned for that role.