I'd vote for her against Obama even if she was on the top of the ticket. This whole discussion cracks me up. Obama was a friggin State Senator in one of the most fucked up states/cities in the U.S. His district in Chicago is a zoo. To give you a cali analogy it would be like a State Senator from South L.A.-complicit in your budget problems-getting lucky and winning a Dem U.S. Senate primary because he's the only black or only Latino in a crowded white field. Then two years after he's elected campaigning for President. You too would think it's laughable. Could you mouth the words President Maxine Waters? I don't care about his lack of experience. Instead he's had a NEGATIVE impact on Chicagio and Illinois. At least Palin can point to a few accomplishments. Obama can't say with an honest straight face that one SINGLE place he's served is BETTER after he was there. It's nuts.
Pabst, for me the issue comes down to judgment. I've been looking for ways to rally around Mc Cain, yet he keeps making one mistake after another which I find really quite troublesome . . . Of all the people that he could have chosen to be VP, he chooses someone based on political "gimmickry" with a 4th quarter "Hail Mary" with 2 seconds left on the clock. This is not the character of a true leader. It is political "gimmickry" and it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. ( How do you think Kay Bailey Hutchison feels right about now? Mitt Romney? Is Sarah Palin the most qualified Republican in the land for VP? ) In my opinion Mc Cain has been hugely IRRESPONSIBLE with his choice not to just the Republican Party, but to the entire country. - - - It's pure GIMMICKRY. Should anything happen to Mc Cain, our country would be left with someone that has admitted on the record as saying "I really don't have any interest on Iraq." If anything would happen to Obama, we would have Joe Biden to take charge. Given the highly volatile world in which we live in today, with multiple foreign threats to our Nation's security, I can sleep at night with that choice (Biden).
Excellent logic. Especially when you include the fact that she was supportive of the $398 MILLION DOLLAR "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE". http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_...palin-really-fight-the-bridge-to-nowhere.aspx
and she has far more experience than BO (who essentially has zero) and BO is running for Prez. She has executive experience, and has been at it a bit longer than BO has been voting "present" in the Senate. I find it amazing that anyone even brings this up.
People obviously seem to think that Obama has quite the Presidential pedigree. They also seem to like Joe Biden as his VP choice. Why else would 38 MILLION PEOPLE tune in to his speech from Denver the other night? How can Palin be considered as anything close to being the BEST AVAILABLE VP CANDIDATE in the Republican Party? For me, that's the REAL question here. I'm a Republican and I'm still scratching my head over Mc Cain's choice, which strikes me as having more to do with a 4th quarter "Hail Mary" and political gimmickry that captures the attention of the media, than actual substance. Mc Cain is no spring chicken. He has numerous health-issues from high cholesterol to several life-threatening bouts with cancer. And yet out of ALL of the possible Republican choices out there to be his VP. . . he decides to choose someone that has absolutely ZERO foreign policy experience. So much for the Republican Party being strong on Foreign Policy. That 50-60 year legacy just went out the window. Thanks John. Brilliant choice!
because he is a hell of a speaker. I repeat. That hottie Palin has a hell of a lot more experience than Obama, and she isn't even running for the top spot.
How responsible is it for Mc Cain who is 72 years old and has had cancer 4 times to entrust this Country of 300 million people to someone that he has only met with one time before meeting-up with her at his secret Sedona Ranch? Would you and your wife entrust your 16 year old daughter to someone that you have only met ONCE, should something catastrophic happen to you and your wife? I should think not.
maybe McCain figured "screw it, I know I wont win.. so I'll just pick Palin, and ride around the country for 2 months in the Straight Talk Express, with 2 hot milfs next to me" maybe it's part of his bucket list??
Isn't the Obama candidacy in itself "gimmickry". Think about this. Do you or any of us have an iota of a clue how Obama will react to any of several likely challenges to U.S. interests? He's a complete enigma. In front of AIPAC he's flat out neo-con. And the number of Jews both on this board and in contributer world makes it clear that those with bank are betting Obama is Mr. Israel. The right of course tries to portray him as Mr. Grew Up In a Mosque Appeaser. He's never had to answer direct questions about SPECIFIC military policies but a more transparent Obama ran for the Senate in 2004 and his statements then portray a man who shows a real lack of diplomatic skill. Several times he has advocated using American trips to shore up the porous Afghan-Pakistan border. I don't know who he's trying to protect from who but post Musharraf Pakistan with it's nukes and insanely radical Muslim Street is not the place I need to see U.S. troops muckraking next year. He has no vision. He doesn't even know what he wants to do. It's play it by ear. At least Bush was honest and committed to his blunder. He said he was going to get rid of Saddam, he did and though it took forever and was costly it was contained. It didn't turn out into Armageddon or a Holy War-as if the Left isn't filled with their own alarmist scare the fuck out of people talk. I believe in the next few years we'll long for the days when 800 combat deaths and 150b a year was the total cost of our âdefenseâ. There's every bit the chance Obama is FDR as he is Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan. Obama will be tested and challenged by rogue governments in ways McCain won't. The same way the media often ignored the obvious about Iraq-it was a deterrent to others. If one doesn't think Ahmadinejad didn't picture himself in Saddam's rathole they don't know human nature. We know what nightmares prompted Gaddafi to give it up, eh? Obama will be pushed by an aggressive China, Pakistan, North Korea, Palestine, Iran and Venezuela with conflicts still active in Iraq and Pakistan. And yet we have NO IDEA on what he'll do anywhere other than a timetabled semi-exit from Iraq. Fucking YAWN. The date the last 15,000 troops leave Iraq is pretty small potatoes when no one knows what you'll do if China moves on Tawain. Or if Chavez invades Columbia. Or Pakistan and India. Or a strike by or on Israel. Is he a commie like FDR who'd be sympathetic to Chavez or is he an egotist who'll slap Chavez aggression down. His supporters think he's a peacenik but do they have any credible record to judge? The world hates us because we're a bully but the second you're not perceived as the toughest guy people fuck with you. I'm isolationist Wags-I could care less if Sudan, Pakistan, Israel and France all went up in a cloud. Wouldn't change a single aspect of my life. But our response will surely effect me and I don't need the hassles. None of us do. Die for America. Not for the Afghans. Obama gives me no compelling reason to consider him. Socialist hack at home and a mystery abroad.