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DEL.ICIO.USMcCain’s choice of Palin erases doubts
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The only question now is the spread, the over/under.
Vice presidential candidates rarely affect election outcomes. The selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will.
On the Friday it is announced, the sun is gloriously bright in Atlanta, appropriate to the mood of the Republican Party. In one morning, it becomes entirely clear: John McCain can be elected president of the United States. He can win and in the process make history.
The first woman on the winning presidential ticket won’t be a liberal Democrat. It’ll be a conservative, a working-woman conservative, a mother of five married to a commercial fisherman.
With her selection, it is possible to begin to fully understand the devotion most blacks have to Barack Obama and to the prospect that he could be the first black to occupy the Oval Office.
Sarah Palin is that historic figure for women and for the conservative movement.
Conservative women in politics often find themselves without the support network that the good ol’ girl network represents for Democratic women or the good ol’ boy network represents in both parties.
When women of the left speak of “women’s issues,” they speak always of women as though they are of one mind, and it is theirs. When they complain that not enough women are in high places, it’s not conservative women they seek to promote. In fact, I can never remember in the Georgia General Assembly or elsewhere women of the left objecting to the perceived mistreatment or glass ceiling that affects women of the right. More commonly, they are vilified in the same way that most blacks of the left vilify Justice Clarence Thomas.
Two decades ago, when women were just beginning to move into judgeships and other important political positions, I thought they would revolutionize public service, primarily because they were outsiders. They were not of the good ol’ boy networks. Unaffected and uncorrupted by an inherited culture, they could therefore be reformers. They could promote ethics and transparency and accountability because they were not invested in the system.
Truth be told, women in power have been changed by the culture more than they have changed it.
But Sarah Palin, perhaps because she came to power as an outsider in a state with an ingrained culture of political corruption, is still the fighter, still the reformer, still committed to ethics, transparency and accountability in government. She’s a fiscal conservative with the courage to cut the budget and tell Alaskans to lessen their dependence on federal largesse. She’s fresh. She’s real. She’s the Washington outsider untainted by the culture that exists there.
Any misgivings I had about John McCain as the Republican standard-bearer are erased by his boldness in choosing Palin.
When successful in November, she will give the nation an opportunity to see a confident conservative woman who knows what she believes, and who practices what she preaches. She is pro-life, for example, and nobody in American can question her convictions. When faced with the option of aborting a child she and her husband knew would be born with a condition that would require their lifelong care, she chose life. It’s not an abstract with her, nor is it a political power game. It’s life. She’s genuine.
Yes, she’s inexperienced on national security and foreign policy issues. Yes, she most likely won’t be able to name the prime minister of some obscure Third World nation and can be tripped up in the “can-you-name” games that journalists play. Yes, Alaska’s a small state. Yes, she has only two years’ experience as governor — though that’s two years more of actual decision-making experience than any of the three men the two parties will nominate.
But as the number-two, the seasoning will come. And while Alaska is small, she has demonstrated that she can make decisions that taxpayers see as in their best interests, which is why her approval numbers are through the roof.
This week’s the Republican convention. There’s no need there to harp on the choices the Democrats have made.
Instead, remain upbeat and introduce America to Sarah Palin. They will love her. Oh, happy day.
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By alan
August 30, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
I agree that Palin has a good stand on many issues that I believe in as a conservative voter, I don’t believe we can overlook the fact that she is totally unqualified to be Commander n Chief if anything happens to McCain. He is 72 and has had cancer four times. This scares me to death that someone this raw could be leader of the free world.
By Sue Bee
August 30, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
Jim—
Don’t put Sarah Palin’s home state,. Alaska, as a small state. It is quite small in its population base, but big in territory and resources. While I had always planned to vote for Sen.McCain, Gov. Palin is the icing on the cake. She knows what it is like, I believe, to be concerned with every day things: the cost of groceries and school clothes,helpng out with fund raisers for school and children’s games, being sure that everybody has something clean to wear tomorrow, etc. On another front, time, she has taken on her fellow Alaskan Republicans and won. Big John surprised us all and he couldn’t have done better!
By Jim
August 30, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this
….and this is who you want to be President if the 72 y.o. cancer survivor dies????????
By Vincent
August 30, 2008 7:14 AM | Link to this
You are right on the money, Jim. Choosing Sarah Palin was brilliant. A smart, tough, woman with principles that she’s not afraid to put into practice, both in office and in her private life, and someone who shares McCain’s prolife convictions and passion for reform. She will galvanize conservatives, attract moderates, and charm everybody. Attacks on Palin for any alleged lack of experience will backfire, since she has more executive experience than Obama. This a ticket with character, a ticket with a passion for reform, a dream ticket….a winning ticket! The leftists, the press, and Democratic operatives are understandably testy about all of this. Too bad for them!
By jon
August 30, 2008 7:15 AM | Link to this
Since when did the Obamaniacs become worried about experience.
They are just upset because she’s prettier than he is.
By Harry
August 30, 2008 7:16 AM | Link to this
It’s ironic that the Dems don’t realize that they have nominated someone just as inexperienced for the top slot in Barack Obama. At least Gov. Palin will be in a job that will give her the experience to be President should something happen to McCain.
By marko
August 30, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this
I like what Little I know about Palin, but I don’t know much about her. She is obviously popular with the pro-life anti- freedom crowd. Those folks are certainly entitled to their opinions, and bless their little hearts, they feel that were entitled to their opinions as well. They love America it’s just Americans they can’t stand.
By BS Aplenty
August 30, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this
Listen to the liberals howl about inexperience. But wait, Jim, maybe they’re correct.
Sarah Palin doesn’t have nearly Obama’s experience with America-hating leftists like Wright, Ayers and Pfleger, that Obama does.
And for that kind of “inexperience”, the leftists think her unqualified to lead the America.
Sarah Palin is the breath of fresh air that the country is looking for.
McCain/Palin ‘08 - The Right Kind of Change
By catlady
August 30, 2008 7:29 AM | Link to this
“McCain’s Choice of Palin Erases Doubts” Boy, that’s the truth. It erases doubts that the Republican party will do ANYTHING to pander and pimp.
By Cynthia_Tucker_Racist
August 30, 2008 7:30 AM | Link to this
Cynthia Tucker is a Racist. Thank god for you and your articles though I’m not sure how you like working for such a liberal news paper! Tucker reminds me of oprah ….only voting for obama becasue he’s black or half atleast.
By Paul
August 30, 2008 7:35 AM | Link to this
Oh, happy day!
Democrats have been put in “check” on virtually every major issue.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 7:37 AM | Link to this
“She knows what it is like, I believe, to be concerned with every day things: the cost of groceries and school clothes,helpng out with fund raisers for school and children’s games, being sure that everybody has something clean to wear tomorrow, etc.”
If these are the credentials to be a good vice president, there are a lot of nannies (even illegal alien ones) that are ready to step into the role!
By OpinionsMatter
August 30, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. This points out the fundamental hypocrisy with the Republican approach on pro-choice and abortion: all they care about is whether the baby is born, not what kind of life the child will have afterward.
By OpinionsMatter
August 30, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. This points out the fundamental hypocrisy with the Republican approach on pro-choice and abortion: all they care about is whether the baby is born, not what kind of life the child will have afterward.
By Think Rationally
August 30, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
Harry: “At least Gov. Palin will be in a job that will give her the experience to be President should something happen to McCain.” Are you serious, a woman that you never heard of two days ago who was mayor of a town of less than 8,000 two years ago should be vice-president of the United States and gain her experience to be President of the United States on the job? All this hoopla because she is woman with alleged ideals that are as far right wing as you can get - a hockey mom who is pro NRA, anti-abortion even for cases of rape and incest (make a child raped by an uncle who is pregnant at 14 a criminal - is that our values now?) Republicans cannot be so knee jerk and desperate to want a second runner up beauty queen who is documented to have the least experience in national and international issues than anyone nominated as Vice President of the United States in the history of the country. This speaks more of give me a reason to cheer than what would happen if she was called on to decide to invade or not invade Iraq. This is not a choice between her and Obama, this is a choice between her and any number of qualified women in the Republican Party - an experienced black women would have sealed the deal. Doesn’t anyone think rationally anymore? And guess what, I’m a Cobb County Republican tried and true. American politics has become a joke that the whole world is laughing at people and every day we give the world more reason to believe we do not have a clue.
By Mytwocents
August 30, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this
Finally, a breath of fresh air in the political arena. Someone who is an outsider of the same old Washington politics. I say give her a chance. She will have opportunities to learn and shadow. We need an independent voice instead of the tired old Washington politics and selfish agendas by both political parties. I am glad McCain chose Palin. It is interesting to think about Hillary’s year of 2012 and her possible contender of Palin. Hillary might be slighted again this time by Palin who began as a relatively unknown Washington outsider. Let the fun begin!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this
Once again, Republicans have demonstrated that they have two standards—one for the Dems and another for themselves.
Palin, a governor of a state with a smaller population than Dekalb County’s for less than a year and a half, is a fine choice for the far right: anti-choice, pro-environmental destruction, anti-science, pro-assault weapons, supports the borrow and spend policies of Bush, pro-100 years in Iraq,…
On the other hand, after repeatedly bashing Obama’s lack of experience (so-called), McCain picks, and Republicans hail, a person who has one ounce of experience for every pound of experience that Obama has and one ounce of experince for every ton of experience that Joe Biden has.
In short, according to Jim Wooten and associates, lack of experience is a liability if you’re a Democrat, but it’s okay if you’re a Republican.
And to think that there are people who still take these clowns seriously.
By spankmonkey
August 30, 2008 7:59 AM | Link to this
Visionary? or gratuitous? Do any of you nutsacks think she would’ve been selected if Hilary and Obama hadn’t of done so well? McSame was scared into this “historic” selection. If there weren’t so much clucking out there about the prospect of a “minority” being elected to the presidency, McSame would’ve picked another corrupt, rich, white, old man to be his running mate.
As usual you interpret political expediency (on the GOP’s part) as political acumen. This was a choice forced of McSame by the actions of Hillary and Obama…
And this flaming liberal is seriously considering punching that ticket. I’ve been dissappointed by McSame time and time again, but I still like him. His VP choice may be gratuitous, and I am not one of those ends justify the means types, but it looks fairly solid (so far…).
When I look at Obama closely, I see an unproven quantity, brilliant (but empty) rhetoric with no solutions (not that any campaing promises really matter), and disturbing ties to black supremacy and perpetual victimhood. The man seems to love himself more than anything. I do like his wife, however.
Don’t even get me started on his VP pick. When look at Biden’s picture, I see a used car salesman/televangelist. he’s been a beltway insider for too long to bring what we need to the ticket.
Unlike you sheep, I will cross the party line to vote for the other guy, since my party won’t bring anything fresh or solid to the party. That doen’t mean I’m compromising my principles, this is an election my vote has to be earned.
By K_Chub
August 30, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding me Jim? You don’t even write columns for yourself anymore do you? You just put some ridiculous positive spin on whatever nonsense the GOP is up to and call it great. You are such a hack - do have any common sense or any intelligence or are you just a loyal GOP line toting moron?
I suspect someone else writes your columns for you - or at the very least someone in the GOP is telling you what to write because you are just too much of a tool. You are such a garbage writer and I seriously doubt you care about this country. The only thing you care about is the GOP and if it means you have to forget about the well being of America to tote the party line then you go all out. If you actually think this was a good choice for McCain you don’t deserve to have your own column.
Are we living in an episode of the twilight zone…the GOP knock on Barrack Obama has always been that he is inexperienced, but you counter that by selecting quite possibly the least experienced person to ever be a candidate for political office? She brings nothing to the table. She isn’t even remotely qualified to take over the office of Presidency if something happens to McCain. She is a joke - a gimmick. It shows how desperate McCain is and the Republican party is at this point. I can’t wait until she debates Biden - what a bonehead move. McCain met her once before and thought that was enough for her to be qualified - are you kidding me? This isn’t for some low-level staff position or to hire someone to pass out yard signs - this is for Vice President of the United States of America. I am outraged. I just can’t believe how stupid McCain is and how bad his decision making is.
This seals the deal for Obama - not like he wasn’t going to win anyway - but this does it. People see right through this gimmick. I realize McCain isn’t one to be considered intelligent, but this is just lunacy - the old man has lost what few marbles he had left.
By Jim Philips
August 30, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this
This just confirms my worst impression of McCain: That when confronted with new situation, he’ll do something weird and ill-considered. If he wanted a woman, there are a number of experienced Republican women who would have fit the bill. He is just dreaming that there is still some coalition with the religious right that can salvage the Republican party. Fat chance.
By GMAN
August 30, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
McCain/Bush - More Destructive Than A Hurricane!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this
One other thing.
Wooten described Palin as a “fiscal conservative”. She just joined the ticket of a man who’s tax proposals are calculated to, conservatively, add $5 trillion to our national debt over the course of two terms in office.
Our government’s unsecured debt, analogous to credit card debt, is already 355% of our government’s annual income ($9.6T/$2.7T). Imagine having credit card debt over 3.5 times larger than your annual salary. That’s the situation Bush has gotten us into and that’s the situation the McCain intends to exacerbate—with the help of his “fiscally conservative” VP pick.
And to think that there are people who still take these clowns seriously.
By AL
August 30, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
Jim …it is a far cry better than a community organizer and junior senator that has accompished nothing. What’s wrong with surviving cancer you idiot? Liberals hate all people that don’t buy into their wacko idealogy, even if they are decorated veterans and have had the courage to fight a deadly disease. Disagree with his politics but to question McCains character and devotion to his country and his fellow POW’s is assanine. I by the way disagree with alott of McCains accomplishments in Washington. However, at least he has some. Wacko Socialist Libs should love half the stuff he’s done. But they are so hyped by their “mascot” candidate they attack McCains character. Typical Wacko crap
By spankmonkey
August 30, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this
The only way for the Republican party to be salvaged would be for it to split off from the religious right. It would open the doors for many disaffected and center of the road dems and independents to come join in the fun.
The overall numbers would probably stay fairly consistent, the only advantage the religious right holds is it’s ability to direct the votes of it’s constituency through the clergy. When you have a captive audience of simple minded folk every sunday, it’s easy to manipulate the votes they will cast, especially if you tell them they’ll go to hell for voting liberal.
By One Voice
August 30, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
Jim, this article erases any doubts that you’re the clown that the AJC keeps around so that they can say they’ve got a conservative columnist on staff. One that provides a good bit of humor to boot. Don’t worry Jim, we’re laughing at you, not with you. Even the biased pundits at FOX (that’s your side) are comparing Palin to Dan Quayle. And you’re falling all over yourself for the female incarnation of Dan Quayle. But this job is perfect for you; it’s the only one where you can flaunt how obtuse you are without ever having to provide evidence or support for your irrational beliefs.
As a Democrat, I love, love, love McCain’s VP pick of Sarah Palin. These are her credentials:
She was the mayor of a town of 9,000 people. That’s not even half the size of most school districts. It’s barely a town. She was the mayor of a strip mall.
Then for two years she was the governor of the state with the 4th smallest population in the U.S., with less than 700,000 people. That’s barely a state. 16 U.S cities have more people than Alaska. By comparison, the metro area of Atlanta has nearly 6,000,000 people.
Republicans gripe about Obama not having enough experience. Chicago has 2,800,000 people. Illinois has 12,000,000 people. Why am I quoting population numbers? There’s a huge difference in dealing with the dynamics of massive states like Illinois and small ‘towns’ like Alaska. In larger cities and states you have vast differences in ethnicity, economic status, huge public education systems, police forces, etc. Experience on that level is good preparation for the national level. Being the mayor of a town of 9,000 and the governor of a state of 700,000 for two years is not.
And then we have the kicker: Palin is currently under investigation for abuse of power, which is corruption. A pundit gleefully mentioned tonight that this was her “only” scandal in her two years in office.
This speaks the most about whether she’s ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. She believes that it is appropriate to run government by using her authority to call in favors pertaining to personal vendettas. When the public safety commissioner in Alaska refused to fire her ex-brother in law, who was a state trooper, she fired the commissioner. If there was evidence that her brother in law had done something unlawful or unethical, there are review boards and hearings available. There is a systematic process to terminate officers.
But Palin used her power as if she was a mafia boss, calling in a hit. To her, that was the right way to do things in her “official” capacity. Does this show her preparedness to be president? Really?
And what does it say about McCain that he chose her? Only a man who was completely out of touch with reality would pick someone of her stature, in her predicament, to be vice president. And McCain has repeatedly shown the symptoms of memory loss and senility.
At this point I am really not worried that McCain will be elected. He won’t be. But if by some strange twist of circumstances he was, this country would need to be prepared for incompetence on a scale equal to what we have had for the last 8 years. It is truly bizarre.
Thank you, John McCain. With every decision you show us the depth of your “judgment”, or better yet, lack of.
By David
August 30, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
Whoever wrote this article is an idiot!!!
By CJ
August 30, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
Sorry, but I can’t help myself this morning…
How stupid is the religious right? They come to the polls, time and again, to get played by the Republican Party. A Party that has demonstrated that their devotion to the causes of the Pat Robertsons of the world is limited to election years.
Palin will fire up the religious right, yet again, and get them to show up to vote for McCain…only to be disappointed when he sits her in a corner and instructs her to keep her mouth shut until the next election.
It’s almost as if the religious right likes to be lied to.
By Ga Values
August 30, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
Talk about a roll of the dice. And a presidential election like no other. John McCain’s daring pick of Sarah Palin will shake up the race once again. Where Obama went for safety and experience in picking Biden as his running mate, McCain went for the unconventional. The Alaska governor is younger than Obama, has been in office only two years and has no foreign or national security experience. The choice may help McCain beat charges that he’s a candidate of the past. It adds youth and vigor to the ticket, giving Republicans a better opportunity to connect with a younger generation of voters and making it hard for Democrats to paint the GOP as the party of rich white men. Plus putting Palin on the ticket is an inducement to women who backed Hillary Clinton and feel cheated of the chance to vote for one of their own to switch allegiance. But Palin is no champion of issues that are dear to many women voters…the right to have an abortion, for one. There’s a downside to his pick, too. It’ll blunt GOP attacks on Obama as lacking the experience necessary to be president, since McCain picked someone with an even shorter résumé, especially in foreign affairs, to be a heartbeat away.
The choice of Palin is sure to enliven the Republican convention,giving the media something fresh to talk about and taking some pressure off McCain. But McCain still must rebut two tough challenges framed by the Democrats: The impression that he’s out of touch with middle-class economic woes. And the Bush factor. Obama & Co. will continue to paint McCain as a clone of the unpopular president…someone who will tread the same path in coming years. To combat that, look for McCain to emphasize his history as an independent… a maverick who took on GOP presidents and leaders on global warming, torture, the conduct of the war and campaign finance reform, a signature issue for him. But backing too far away from Bush risks losing the conservatives McCain needs.
McCain’s acceptance speech will likely be dominated by foreign policy,stressing that Obama’s judgments, particularly on Iraq, Iran and Russia, are wrong. “Risk” will be the GOP touchstone, much as “change” was for Democrats. There’ll be plenty of emphasis…in speeches and videos…on McCain’s military record. The nominee will leave it to others to talk about his bravery as a prisoner of war, although he does it often himself on the campaign trail. It’s a powerful story, but one he risks overplaying. He can’t let voters think he’s milking it for sympathy.
Obama left Denver feeling very good about the smooth running convention. In fact, he couldn’t have asked for more. The week’s events brought unityto the fractured party and stayed on message. Obama fleshed out his policies, made progress in explaining who he is and where he comes from, countered charges that he is elitist and showed he’s willing to take on McCain in a hard-hitting contest. Most important, Democrats demonstrated their edge in enthusiasm, Obama’s big advantage. The party has never wanted to win more fervently… in part because Obama has struck a chord with many voters, especially young ones, and in part because Democrats and others feel the U.S. has gone badly off course. All that will help Obama reap huge benefits in fund-raising and turnout.
By luangtom
August 30, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
Gov. Palin has already trumped the Democrats on the Commander-in-Chief issue. She made her trip, as Governoer of Alaska, Commander-in-Chief of the Alaska National Guard, to the Mideast to visit HER troops. She did this a YEAR before the Dems sent Obama there for his media-circus. She HAS experience in command….and she eats moose-burgers.
By Mo
August 30, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Mayor and Governor are both executive experience positions albeit at much smaller levels of government. This for VP position is much more experience than Osamabama’s (less than 6 months if you discount his time “off his paid job” for his campaign activity)for the number one slot. Oh yeAh, I forgot his vast experience as a community organizer. Happy days are here again. Hitlary is toast and Osamabama can go back to his friends Rev? Wright and Ayers.
By Steve-O
August 30, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
The choice of Palin is Hail Mary pass. He is desperate to lock up a few more votes and he needed a woman to do it. He needed a woman- a conservative woman and one not from the Bible belt (see even Republicans are tiring of Southern conservatives) and the only conservative, non-Southern woman he could find was Palin. So he had to settle for someone who has next to no experience which has totally negated his argument that Obama doesn’t have enough experience to be President. He will have to move on from that criticism. McCain is a 72 year-old man who could die tomorrow so don’t tell me that Obama’s lack of experience is important and hers isn’t. That is hypocritical. If McCain had been in a more secure position there is no way he would have chosen this woman but he needed to appease the base with a conservative choice and he needed to try to win over some Hillary supporters with a woman. Pure and simple. The only reason a person who has been governor of Alaska for a year and a half is on the ticket is because she has a uterus. I am sure conservatives are pleased and good for them but if you think pro-choice Hillary supportors are going to fall for this pro-life nutcake then you are crazy!
By Mo
August 30, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this
Mayor and Governor are both executive experience positions albeit at much smaller levels of government. This for VP position is much more experience than Osamabama’s (less than 6 months if you discount his time “off his paid job” for his campaign activity)for the number one slot. Oh yeah, I forgot his vast experience as a community organizer. Happy days are here again. Hitlary is toast and Osamabama can go back to his friends Rev? Wright and Ayers.
By Lauren
August 30, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this
You Republicas kill me with your rationalizations. In 1992 I remember very well Republicans saying Bill Clinton was not ready to be President because he had only been governor of a small state. But that’s okay for Palin. She’s different! You also say Obama does not have the experience to be President but someone whose only experience is to be a mayor of a town of 9000 and governor for less than two years of a state with less people than Dekalb County is fine. You guys are such hypocrites!
By Mo
August 30, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this
hmmm… So Osamabama has experience to be president but Palin has no experience to be VP. Logic only a demoncrat could utilize.
By RealRep
August 30, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this
Real Conservatives see past this ‘maverick’ move for what it really is - a sign of the Senator’s instability.
The Senator’s actions of the last nine months don’t reflect one who bucks the system, but rather one who’s decisions reflect no cohesive rational thought - a character flaw we cannont afford to have again in the White House.
In choosing Palin over any one of the highly qualified Governors he vetted, Senator McCain makes it clear he is more concerned with the Hillary voter than he is the needs of the true conservative.
This election will now result in a significant shift to the left - regardless who wins.
By One Voice
August 30, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
By NotaAtlantafan
August 30, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
By alan
August 30, 2008 6:33 AM | Link to this
I agree that Palin has a good stand on many issues that I believe in as a conservative voter, I don’t believe we can overlook the fact that she is totally unqualified to be Commander n Chief if anything happens to McCain. He is 72 and has had cancer four times. This scares me to death that someone this raw could be leader of the free world.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan, it should scare you to death that someone so raw and with Obamas background could be leading the country. That is truly scary!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
McCain’s VP pick is a bone. A bone thrown out to women thinking they are gullible enough to fall for his pandering.He’s saying “Here girls, here girls”. When was the last time you heard McCain speak out on women’s issues and concerns? He doesn’t care about women.
If he wins the nomination, you will see what I’m talking about. She will have no clout or input in the white house because everybody, especially McCain, will know why she’s there, for votes and not policy.
This is furthur example of the manipulation and deceitfulness that the repugnants are famous for.
By Frank
August 30, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this
How can you tell McCain made a good choice? By the response of the democrats in this tread. Rip, bash, and trash all you want. McCain did what Obama failed to do. This is a brilliant selection. Gov Palin has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined, but don’t let the facts get in the way of a tear down. Democrats are just mad that the McCain did what they didn’t do and they are scared. 54 million woman voted in the last election. Game. Set. Match.
By Country Mouse
August 30, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this
Palin is nominated to be vice president. Obama is nominated to be president. Do you not see the difference? Sure, McCain could die tomorrow. So could you. So could I. So could Obama.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
Frank,
You just posted the dumbest post I’ve seen on here. More executive experience? Mayor of a town with 8000 people? 2 year Gov of Alaska with 600,000 people? The two gentleman you just derided have presided over policies and issues that affect 300,000,000 people and have been doing it longer than her. She’s a biscuit being used to court women voters, that’s all!
Can you add?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
Country Mouse,
If something happened to Obama, the country would still be in the hands of a capable leader.
Do you see the difference?
By Looking forward
August 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
Nov 5, 2008
The day when White privilege and Black victimhood both takes a swift kick in the nuts!!!!
Oh happy day!
All of the truly progressive people in this country will rise up and celebrate. We will tell all of you polarizing bigots on all sides to STFU!!!
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Those folks are certainly entitled to their opinions, and bless their little hearts, they feel that were entitled to their opinions as well. They love America it’s just Americans they can’t stand. - “marko” 7:17AM
Funny, I say the same thing about mindless liberals who call US soldiers nazis (Dimwitocrat senator Dick Durbin) and eco-nazi fascist Algorebots who torch someone’s SUV or McMansion just because they have one and have worked towards the American dream of freedom (for you slow-witted Dimwitocrats, Google it).
Marko, your post rings so true.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
ST. PAUL - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama begins airing an ad Saturday that responds to rival John McCain’s selection of a running mate, carefully avoiding any direct criticism of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor whom McCain chose for the GOP ticket.
Obama’s campaign promptly created the spot in advance of next week’s Republican National Convention. The ad, called “No Change,” sought to sustain the theme that Obama and Democrats worked to cultivate at their own convention this week — that McCain represents a continuation of the policies of an unpopular President Bush.
“Well, he’s made his choice,” the ad states. “But, for the rest of us there’s still no change. McCain doesn’t get it, calling this broken economy ‘strong.’ Wants to keep spending ten-billion-a-month in Iraq. And votes with George Bush 90 percent of the time.”
The ad continues: “So, while this may be his running mate…” as an image of McCain and Palin appears on the screen. The image then shifts to a shot of McCain with Bush. “America knows this is John McCain’s agenda. And we can’t afford four more years of the same.”
The ad illustrates the Obama camp’s careful reaction to Palin’s addition to the Republican ticket — a groundbreaking move that reintroduced gender into the presidential race just as the Democrats worked to resolve a rift between the Obama camp and supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, both called Palin to congratulate her on Friday. They also issued a joint statement that said her selection was “yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics.” They called her “an admirable person and (she) will add a compelling new voice to this campaign.”
Earlier, however, Obama spokesman Bill Burton issued a statement calling Palin an abortion-rights opponent and “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience.”
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Bill Baxter
August 30, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this
You put a dress and lipstick on a pig of a ticket, but that wont make it pretty. Attempting to make it seem that women are interchangeable can disenfranchise the masses. Let’s just pray she doesn’t accidentally shoot her hunting partner.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Republicans are praising Palin for making the decision to keep a child she knew would be born with Down Syndrome. Yet, how can she care for her five-month-old child while on the campaign trail? So much for family values. - OpinionsMatter 7:44
Congratulations, mindless liberal hysteric. That is perhaps the dumbest post I have ever read on any blog anywhere. Is your mindless hysterical liberal self going to sit there with a straight face and tell us that “family values” means sitting at home and not going on a campaign trail - kid or not? Show me where that is mentioned in the neocon book of “Family Values.” Yeah, like we all know that poor kid will be left on the door step in freezing Alaska until Sarah comes home.
What a jackass.
Boy, you mindless hysterics on the left are P!SSED OFF for some reason.
Good.
I love it.
Threatened are we, pansies?
By allison
August 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
All you have to do is listen to Gov. Palin for 5 minutes and you realize why McCain chose her as his running mate.She’s smart. To question her credibility based on years of governemental experience can be summed up in one statement . It’s not the number of years of service but what’s accomplished during those years.
By whatacrock
August 30, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this
Fine people of America, look clearly at this point. The conservatives are trying to sell you a crock of goods. Palin is in because she is woman. Period. Not because she has “executive” experience. A man would not be looked at with the kind of experience she has, not for a moment.
Someone has pointed out that she can be president because she has cute shoes, shoots a gun, is a member of the NRA, oh how wonderful she is, yatta, yatta. People, this is a potential president we are talking about! And so on January 1, the secret service hands her a brief case with the codes to all of our nuclear arms and says, make the decision to use these arms based on… what? Being the mayor of a 9,000 person town and a govenor? Raising a family of 5?
Oh, but wait, she has cute shoes. She was runner up in the Ms. Alaska pagent. She has a son going to Iraq. She killed a moose and eats moose burgers. And she is drill drunk and wants to drill in the arctic wildlife refuge.
If you are happy with your life under Georgie Porgie puddin & pie, vote for McCain and Palin. Period. But please don’t vote for her because she is a red shoe wearing, moose hunting, flute playing, NRA card carrying member. Brilliant? Are you serious?!
Whatacrock!!!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Allison,
Thanks for proving our case for Obama.
Obama/Biden in ‘08!!!!!!!
By Chris
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
I’m an issues guy. I couldn’t care less about experience. I care about judgment.
As an issue-oriented liberal, I’d vote for convicted masturbator Pee Wee Herman before I’d vote for McCain if Pee Wee he had the good judgment to get us out of Iraq, increase troops in Afghanistan, give us a choice on health care other than the policies that are gouging us today, invest in solar and wind, balance the budget, etcetera.
So, I couldn’t care less about Palin’s lack of experience. On the issues, she’s the “Christian” right’s wet dream. Good for them.
But the right has been pounding Obama on his experience level, and this pick puts their hypocrisy on display for all to see…again.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
We will tell all of you polarizing bigots on all sides to STFU!!! - looking backward
Does that include that hate monger pastor of Obama’s? Do tell, mindless liberal hysteric.
By charles
August 30, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
but I thought Obama was too young and inexperienced? Sarah, who would be 1 heartbeat away from being president isn’t?? A pro-life family woman - who rushed back to work after having her latest child (a child who should be receiving perhaps even more care due to downs syndrome) - a mom who has babies but doesn’t want to stick around to play mom is a great example of family values? and I thought Obama was too inexperienced on the international stage - her experience consists of leading the Alaska National Guard and having a soldier son. can she even name the countries of the world on the map (back when I was in elementary school many decades ago we had to learn them as part of our geography class - but you think it’s okay if she doesn’t know the name of some third world country?). Isn’t there the risk that she could be as big of an international dufus as Bush. of course she was runner up for Miss Alaska however and won Miss Congeniality - so she must be pretty and also likeable. just the roll model the women of today are looking for I guess - but then I don’t pretend to the an expert on what the women of America are looking for in their leaders - unlike you of course. I had no idea you were the spokesman for the women of America. In fact I had no idea one person was even capable of knowing what the women of America (how demeaning to act as though their interests could all be boiled down into some simple minded issues that anyone person and you in particular who time and again has shown himself to be both racist and sexist, could enumerate). you have proven yet again that your stupidity Jim is exceeded only by your hipocracy. yes she may be an awessome leader, and may be a great and wise vice president if elected, but for you to claim she IS JUST THAT based upon her accomplishments (and shortcomings) thus far in life is just more of the same, endless and boring Jim-babble. by the way, while daddy is off on his 1,900 hundred mile snowmobile races or out working hard as a fisherman and mommy is off being governer (or more demading yet, the Vice President), who is parenting the kids?? isn’t it kind of important that they have some significant amount of time in their formative years with at least one of heir parents? maybe Sarah can do what a number of the mothers I work with do when they have children - work part-time. a part-time Vice President or President is okay isn’t it? she can always be available by cell to make decisions as to whether or not to push the button on the deployment of nuclear weapons. a woman with real experience as a mom but whose children have grown to at least their teen years, a woman who has significant experience governing, a woman who knows the in’s and out’s of the intricacies of world politics and who can be available 24/7 to deal with whatever comes this way for the most important job in the world would be a wonderful political advancement for this country and I believe there are many qualified women out there who are capable of doing just that. in fact I believe that someone other than a white male really may be just what this country needs - it seems to have worked for most of the rest of the world’s non third-world countries. sorry Jim, but your McBuddy had probably many good options if he wanted to be bold and choose a female or a minority running mate, but instead chose someone who, to this point in her career, is totally unqualified in every respect.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
Uhm, “charles,” do you know what paragraphs are?
Please stay home in November and don’t contribute to the stupidity pool of America. I’ve had my fill of watching stupid people this week in Denver.
By Captain Freedom
August 30, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this
THE Captain agrees with Mr Wooten (of course) and salutes St John for his bold and visionary selection of this not-man person as his second in command.
First off, what better way to snap the V@gina-American voters into line than to offer up one of their own as a candidate? This virtually ensures that all Americans with pen!s envy (ie, all women) will vote GOP!!
Secondly, Gov. Palin is exceptionally HOT. Nothing makes THE Captain’s little soldier stand up at attention than the idea of a comely not-man person fondling the stock and barrel of a high-powered firearm. Indeed, THE Captain and Mr Wooten have already purchased an extra case of lotion and several new Nerf footballs so as not to be caught short during next week’s convention. (Not that THE Captain or Mr Wooten are afflicted with shortness, no not at all! And why is Mrs Freedom doubled over in laughter? Dammit, THE Captain demands respect!!)
Finally, there is the matter of Gov Palin using the power of her office to punish her former brother-in-law. Surely, there will be some liberal namby-pamby limp wristers who will bemoan this as an “abuse” of power. To the contrary, THE Captain feels a further tingle in his loins as he ponders the notion of this Godly Woman manipulating the levers of Her power to smite an underling who dares to thwart her familial devotion. THE Captain says, and indeed speaks for Mr Wooten, when he poses this question: What good is power if one is not willing to use and even abuse it?
Our Leader has proven time and time again that abuse of power is the very bedrock of Godly Christian Governance. THE Captain is certain that a VP Palin would be more than willing to compromise undercover CIA operatives or to instigate sham prosecutions against Democrats like that governor with the jewy name from Alabama. As Our Leader’s Cheney has amply demonstrated, abusing power is the number one job of the Veep. Verily, Palin is the right man for the job, even though she lacks the Rod of Redemption that those of us made in God’s image were endowed with to guarantee Our Dominion.
Yes, it is a glorious day when an unapologetic believer in the Creation Story stands a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
Thank you, St John, for making this bold choice that will lock up both the V@gina-American AND the Onanist-American voting blocs in one bold “stroke”.
By southern
August 30, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
goodby obama, with McCain’s v.p. pick i feel that god has given this country a great blessing, now we need to finish the job by ending roe-wade, affirmative action, same sex pervert marriage, lets abolish the N.E.A. outlaw the unions, shut down our borders,lock up all the enviromentalist, lets drill and build, lets finish the job of destroying the democrat party and send them to the trash heaps, the party of no morals no principles no honor or no dignity are in a panic today, I love it.
By dirty harry
August 30, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
Frank 9:53 AM
Frank you’re right in the assessment this was a brilliant selection.
Brilliant in the fact that he hopes these so called PUMAS will vote totally against every thing they stand for, and instead vote for a novice, and one who supports everthing they hate.
Simply because Hillary is not there.
Brilliance in the fact that he realizes after Bush won the presidency twice that we are a nation of STUPID!
She was for the bridge to nowwhere before she was against it!
She is under investigation.
She wants to take the Polar Bear off the endangered species act, and have open hunting on wolves.
She’ll have Yosemite Park looking like Anchorage…Snow-mobiles forever…fouling the air, peace and quiet!
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
ATTention Republicans:
Women are not this stupid!!!!!!!
get it?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this
Dear marko @ 7:17, you err, it is just marko and similar goofballs we cannot stand.
Dear irrational @ 7:48 and Crock @ 10:19, it’s the ideology, stupid. Your guys are wrong on the issue, Palin is right in every respect.
Dear spankmonkey @ 7:49, bizarre that you and I, from wholly different political perspectives, reach the same electoral conclusion using essentially the same methodology.
Dear CJ @ 8:09, and the sad thing is that Captain Queeg’s spending increases pale in comparison to those of Chauncey Gardener.
Dear Spankmonkey @ 8:18, yes, and the only way to save the democrat party is to split off from the moonbats. Neither will happen.
Dear One Voice @ 8:30, I agree that the Quayle analogy is apt, but I do not attach the opprobrium you do. Quayle’s only mistake is that he would not embarrass his hosts over their mispelled “potatoe” cue card. He is/was a thoughtful conservative, typically demonized by the loony-left. Certainly you cannot accuse Quayle of manufacturing a phony hype over freon around the time DuPont’s patents were lapsing, and compelling the entire US economy to switch to the new DuPont patents. You cannot accuse Quayle of manufacturing a phony hype over global warming, thus to force the economy into a government controlled “cap and trade” scheme designed to benefit friends of democrats. Honest brokers, like Quayle and Palin, are rare and to be appreciated.
Dear Steve-O @ 8:55, looks like a touchdown, the way the left is moaning.
Dear Lauren @ 9:02, we might agree that there is a difference between the parties here. Republicans nominate good people with questionable experience to the back-up training position, and Democrats nominate questionable people with questionable experience to the top job. The former is willing to risk failure for the sake of future development, but the latter is willing to guarantee it. (Perhaps you will recall that the republicans were right about Bill, that the country suffered so mightily in his first two years that the American public put some adults in charge of Congress.)
Dear devastator @ 9:48, similarly the Obama nomination is a bone thrown to keep black folks on the plantation. You post reminds me of the puzzling disparity in democrat analysis. Any black person who votes against Obama is, in democrat eyes, a traitor to his race, even if he disagrees with Obama’s views on death taxes and military service and abortion and welfare spending. Yet any person who demonstrates sexual pride in the nomination of Ms. Palin, notwithstanding personal disagreement over issues, is a tool of the right? Democrat logic is dazzling, indeed.
SpamAlert @ 10:10.
Dear Bill @ 10:07, 10:11, 10:111, and 10:13, repetition does not enhance the brilliance of a lame post.
By RufusPantiesInWad
August 30, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
By Rufus August 30, 2008 10:43 AM I’ve had my fill of watching stupid people this week in Denver.
Glad you tuned in Rufus!
And look….I’m using paragraphs! Happy?
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this
Dear devastator @ 10:58, but black folk are?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Ragnar,
Grow a brain please. Obama decided himself that he would run for president, he wasn’t a bone picked by someone else. Palin was chosen by a presidential candidate to use her so that HE could win.
Obama being president doesn’t keep black folks on the plantation because the last time I checked, black folks weren’t allowed to vote or own property on the plantation, much less become president of the United States.
Try again idiot.
By buster brown
August 30, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this
By dirty harry 10:53 AM
Harry, That’s what republicans do best.
If a tree is still standing. Chop that sucker down!
If an animal still has a habitat. We need that land for a shopping mall!
Global warning…SCIENCE? Baloney it’s a democratic hoax!
I also, notice the Palin cheerleaders think she is some kind of wonder-girl…One who took on Murkowski..But, Now his daughter serves in the U.S. Senate!
Stevens and Young both corrupt crooks…but, both still won their primaries!
Tells one something about the voters of Alaska!
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this
PoFo - I always enjoy watching clowns at a circus and a dog & pony trick. Thanks for being glad for me!
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this
Dear devastator @ 11:14, have you ever heard of George Soros? You are truly a convenient idiot.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this
Dear Devastator @ 11:14, my apologies, I called you a “convenient idiot” when I meant to call you a “useful idiot.” Perhaps your are convenient also, but I cannot affirm same.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
Ragnar,
I didn’t say there aren’t any financial backers dumba$$. You should be proud of the fact that someone backed the possibilty of a black president. That sure didn’t happen on the plantation did it?
Also Soros isn’t running for president and he doesn’t have to back Obama to get what he wants.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
On August 10, Karl Rove went on “Face The Nation” to argue that Senator Obama would make an “intensely political choice” for Vice President without regard for the “responsibilities of president.”
At the time, Rove believed Obama would choose Tim Kaine, and argued against him by saying this:
With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished.
I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town.
So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?
So is Rove now concerned that Palin is capable of being president as he was with Kaine on August 10th?
More republican hypocrisy to continue….Stayed tuned.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this
Actually, I don’t believe McCain himslef picked this woman. I think it was one or more of his “handlers” (for examples of “handlers” see Ronald Reagan, George Dumbya Bush, etc).
This “pimp my candidate” is not even ready for late nite TV. Too obscene.
Dear Gawd! The wheels are loose on the bandwagon!
By Carolyn Wilder
August 30, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this
I think this vp pick will garner a lot of Hillary voters to McCain. I’m not very familiar with her, but she made a great 1st impression yesterday with her speech. And to the people saying what if McCain dies-do you want her for president? I say to them, what if Obama doesn’t die, do you want him for president? Oh, never mind, I forgot -I don’t want Biden either.
By McCan't
August 30, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this
Rove argues that Kaine’s mayorship of Richmond (pop. 200,000+) is insignificant and that his 3 years as Governor of Virginia (pop. 7,712,091, GDP $383 million) has been “indistinguisahable.”
If Rove was intellectually consistent, wouldn’t that mean Palin’s mayorship of Wasilla (pop. 8,000+) and 20 months as Alaska governor (pop. 683,478, GDP $44.5 million) makes her even less qualified than Kaine?
So, Karl, who made the “intensely political choice”?
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
Carolyn Wilder,
The only Hillary supporters this will garner are the ones who where going in the first place.
But I wholeheartedly disagree because they would be turning their back on Hillary and supporting someone who disagrees with her on every issue. I’m not quite sure that women are that gullible, but I’m sure you would know that better than me.
By catlady
August 30, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this
It is not howling you hear from the left. It is LAUGHTER.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this
Is Karl Rove still a political figure out there? Someone help get the mindless liberal hysterical fart bags up to current events, please.
Thank you.
By Devastator
August 30, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Rufus,
To answer your dumba$$ question @11:47 is yes. The RNC and McCain camp are using his techniques and he is a frequent Fox News contributor. He is on everytime I accidently turn to Fox News criticizing and giving his analysis.
Thank You.
By Ragnar Danneskjöld
August 30, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this
Dear Catlady @ 11:46, sounds like cat-slapping to me.
By Rufus
August 30, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this
Numbnutator:
Provide some links to prove that McCane is using the Rove playbook or STFU. Thank you, mindless liberal hysteric.
The fact that Rove is on Faux News as a political COMMENTATOR CONTRIBUTOR is irrelevant - about as irrelevant as Geraldine Ferraro on This Week with George Steppedonanoctopus on Sunday morning.
Mindless liberal idiot.
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this
I think that John Mc Cain is older than his 72 years. His real age is somewhere in the mid -80’s. If he hadn’t been a POW he would have never been a Senator. It was the patriotic thing to do…elect a former POW to give the war in Vietnam since sense of meaning. He was at the bottom of his class in the military so he didn’t distinguish himself academically or with his flying skills. So thank God he was a POW or he would have had to look for another job. I think his time in the Hanoi Hilton has dimmed his ability to see the world in the 21st. century. And his choice of Mrs. Palin wasn’t really his choice. He says he met her once and was impressed. How could anyone make a decision about someone’s qualifications for Vice President of this powerful, globally engaged country with one brief meeting? I think that the same people who gerry mandered George Bush into office for their own agenda have done the same with John Mc Cain and now Ms. Palin. As an ardent feminist for most of my adult life, I think that the campaign should disregard her gender and go for her as if she is any other male candidate. Does anyone know her educational accomplishments? She was Miss Congeniality - thats an accomplishment. If I recall, George Bush was a great social chairman of his fraternity. Look where that has gotten this country. As for her choice to have a baby with disabilities, that was her CHOICE. I say that because it was a CHOICE she made. I think it would be nice if she gave other women the right to make a CHOICE also. She does however seem to be PRO BIRTH - Not PRO LIFE. Otherwise she would have said “no” I have a newborn who needs me right now and the baby’s life is more important. Obviously she is not breastfeeding….an inconvenient truth. Women are not this stupid and once again the Republican machine has relegated us to the “pretty but trust us” position. Not this woman and not most women I know.
By janet
August 30, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this
I think that John Mc Cain is older than his 72 years. His real age is somewhere in the mid -80’s. If he hadn’t been a POW he would have never been a Senator. It was the patriotic thing to do…elect a former POW to give the war in Vietnam since sense of meaning. He was at the bottom of his class in the military so he didn’t distinguish himself academically or with his flying skills. So thank God he was a POW or he would have had to look for another job. I think his time in the Hanoi Hilton has dimmed his ability to see the world in the 21st. century. And his choice of Mrs. Palin wasn’t really his choice. He says he met her once and was impressed. How could anyone make a decision about someone’s qualifications for Vice President of this powerful, globally engaged country with one brief meeting? I think that the same people who gerry mandered George Bush into office for their own agenda have done the same with John Mc Cain and now Ms. Palin. As an ardent feminist for most of my adult life, I think that the campaign should disregard her gender and go for her as if she is any other male candidate. Does anyone know her educational accomplishments? She was Miss Congeniality - thats an accomplishment. If I recall, George Bush was a great social chairman of his fraternity. Look where that has gotten this country. As for her choice to have a baby with disabilities, that was her CHOICE. I say that because it was a CHOICE she made. I think it would be nice if she gave other women the right to make a CHOICE also. She does however seem to be PRO BIRTH - Not PRO LIFE. Otherwise she would have said “no”