Did McCain Make the RIGHT Pick?

8/28/08
California Obama 51% McCain 37%
Colorado Obama 43% McCain 40%
Florida Obam 45% McCain 44%

YES OH YES. THANKS MCCAIN. YOU ROCK.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

I’d say between the similarites of McCain/Biden and Obama/Palin they all cancel each other out. I’ll take Plain and ANY of the other canidates running for the Presidency. With Obama, McCain we’ll still have WAR, debt, and further erosion of our wealth, quality of life and freedom fomr the tyranny of government.(I.e. use of force by barrell of a gun, taser, pepper spray, or “microwave cannon” to punish those who exercise their RIGHT to petition their government or DARE to voice their opposition to it.

Bottom line: She is not ready to step in and be president if something happens to the 72 year-old McCain. Great human interest story, good movie material, interesting symbolic gesture, LOUSY VP PICK!!

Most people don’t really appreciate that the people of Alaska don’t pay state taxes – they get checks from the state government based on the state’s oil revenues. Ms. Palin is a popular governor because she renegotiated a deal with the oil companies and thus captured more oil money for the residents of Alaska. This state-wide socialism is taken for granted up in Alaska, so apparently no one has the slightest difficulty pronouncing Ms. Palin a die hard conservative. If I were an executive with a drug company the thought of Ms. Palin in the White House would terrify me. How long would the provision in Bush’s drug policy that prevents the government from negotiating better prices on prescription drugs for Medicare patients survive? McCain apparently wants to distance himself from the corporate leeches who have fed so well in recent times at the Republican trough. Those guys would have loved Romney, but I expect them to hate Palin. It will be interesting to see what they do after having been thrown under the bus.

I think Palin is more ready to be vice president than Obama is ready to be president. By the way Mr. Coffee – your polls reflect the convention and doesnt yet reflect the republican convention or the VP pick. The little lead Obama has will soon disappear.

No. I wonder if the luster will not be tainted before the convention.
The October surprise. Trooper gate?

michaelinphilly – Is that all you can come up with? She’s under investigation because her brother in law got fired? Who cares. Do you know who else has ZERO foreign policy? The top of the dem’s ticket. Face it, there’s a new face in town and Obama is going down!

McCain saw Obama’s speech at a football stadium and realized that Obama was scoring with the public. So, McCain threw a “hail Mary” pass.
Choosing a young, inexperienced female is clearing an act of desperation.

hopesprings52 – She may not be quite ready to step in if something happened to the 72 year old, but Obama isnt ready from day one. By the way, that 72 year old’s mother is still alive, so I guess the genes live long in that family.

Nope

If the #1 rule of a VP choice is “Do No Harm,” then McCain has failed with his decision.
The entire McCain campaign is now off message defending the logic of choosing the least qualified major party VP candidate in American history.

The hubris of these Obamacons is breathtaking. Sarah Palin has presided over a a $6.6billion budget and has all the executive experience to go with it. Biden and Obama have ZERO admin experience between them. Unbelievable.

All he wants is voted if anything happens to him she can NOT run this country….So the womans vote is more important to him then we the people of America…—— thought he was loosing it now I know he is.

Governor Palin was a brilliant choice.
What is hilarious is Obama and Biden has the dilemna of criticizing Palin for her inexperience, even though she actually has more executive experience than either one of them.
If Rookie U.S. Senator Obama complains about Palin’s inexperience will only focus attention on his own inexperience.

As I have said all along. McCaine is an incompetent hothead. He has accomplished nothing on his outstanding abilities he has none. His heroics cAme due to his incompetence as a navy pilot and his hotheaded behaviour. Now that he would have decisions to make that would demonstrate his insight, judgement and executive abilities he is showing the world how dangerously incompetent he is. God forbid he is elected, who will he put in Defence or Sec. of State or education, the treasury and Homeland security.
I shutter to think what this renegade incompetent man who has ridden his family’s military carreers, pilot mistake and wife’s wealth to the threshold of the presidency would do with the world’s most powerful military, economy and nuclear weapons.

Palin makes barack obama look dull and boring.

Really obvious pandering, trying to get Hillary voters. Will work for some, but others are going to gag when they find out about Palin’s very extreme anti-abortion views (no exceptions, ever- Life of mother, rape, incest, ancepholopathy…) Also, she’s app. anti-birth control pill. How does that work in the real world most of us occupy? Glad she’s got healthcare- a lot of us don’t.

The choice says a lot about McCain decision-making:
1. He is desperate
2. He is willing to gamble
3. He worried about his age
4. He does not stick to his words: “I am looking for someone I can trust as a close adviser”
5. He is copying what he sees is working for others. Experience does not matter; I have to call myself also a man for “CHANGE”!

I am offended that McCain would pick a woman to get the female vote who has no experience. I am a Democrat and she has no appeal. She looks like someone who would be fun to hang out with in the outdoors but I would very quickly be in an argument with her on her on where she stands on many issues. I also have to say that it amazes me that she has a little baby with Down Syndrome and she won’t have any time for that child, she will be way to busy. I just couldn’t do that. I guess I’m just too maternal!

Palin is a political gimmick. McCain shows he but his election first before our nation. If we had to have a woman on the ticket, their are at least 21 other Republican women that would be supremely more qualified. Palin is not a disgrace, his judgement picking her is.

What’s the big deal. Can’t she read a teleprompter?
All the speech writer’s already hired? Did she fail her acting classes? After a few speeches the voter’s will completely forget she doesn’t know anything about anything.
Good grief!

Some of us (probably most of us) actually KNOW some Hillary supporters.
I have 3 in my family, and their reactions ranged from shocked to amused. However, in all 3 cases, they are now firmly behind Obama.
This includes my mother in law, who was going to vote for McCain.
If he was going after the playboy reader vote, he’s got it (especially after all those right wing men on the boards talk about how hot she is and make other really sexist comments). But if he was going after women who are not far right voters, wow, what a miscalcuation.
This is a man’s idea of the kind of woman women like, not a woman’s. It looks very much like her looks and her gender got her the job, and women hate that. Can anyone honestly and seriously say she was the most qualified woman in the Republican party? Oh, I forgot, the qualified woman (like Kay Bailey Hutchison) turned the offer down and ran the other way (at least according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram).
And WHO is taking care of this new baby as she is off on the campaign trail? Not her obviously. You can preach pro-life but if you abandon your children to a nanny after they are born, you have offended me, a mother who takes care of her own children.
Thanks John. For you, a disastrous pick, but for Obama, a great one.

I love how people are saying that Palin does not have the experience to be Vice President or step in to be President. And Barack Obama does have the experience?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……

If I were to pick a vice president whom I want to take over as president in case something happens to either Obama or McCain, I would pick Joe Biden. We already have almost 8 years of an inexperienced, stupid guy as president who had never traveled before he became president, didn’t know the names of the countries, didn’t know the names of the leaders, had been in his daddy’s bubble all his life, and had constantly been bailed out every time he bankrupted one of his own companies. We already got that guy as president. And now we will have a woman as president, whose been fishing and hunting in the wilds of Alaska, who was the mayor of Wasilla (what the hell is Wasilla??), and who likes moose stew??? I’ve read some of the posts who thought that McCain’s pick was brilliant. They say “well, you know Alaska is right next to Russia”. What does that mean??? Like she’s been standing on the Aleutian islands looking out for a missile, or WHAT???

Desperate times call for desperate measures and John Mccain is one desperate man.

McCain-Palin all the way! :D I’m happy and overjoyed she got asked and accepted! Experience? She has enough to make me happy! Very happy! :D

Thursday: That was not an acceptance speech, it was a coronation. Had plenty of animals in house, the only thing lacking was the three wise Men.

None of my pro-Hillary female friends are falling for this obvious GOP pander. To the contrary, McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his VP is drawing hoots of derision.
Once they learn that Sarah Palin opposes rape and incest exceptions for women seeking abortion, they completely write her off.
One female friend said: “Sarah Palin is to the movement for women’s equality what Clarence Thomas is to civil rights. She’s an extremist and an enemy to the cause that has been fought on her behalf…. Someone should stand up and say: ‘I know Senator Clinton. Senator Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah Palin is no Hillary Rodham Clinton.’”
One female friend did some quick internet research and said, “Sarah Palin has a great deal of surface appeal, at first. But once America’s women look behind that cheerleader smile and see at her extreme social agenda, they will run the other direction.”
Another said, “McCain picked a fan, not an equal partner. She has no international experience. She was just fawning all over him. No independence. Given McCain’s temper, Sarah Palin probably won’t challenge John McCain on any substantive issues.”
Then she added, with a laugh, “The only thing he is going to let her do in the White House is teach him how to use the internet.”

McCain could have picked a more seasoned Republican with much more experience than a Alaska Gov with 20 months of experience.
She was a Journalism Major, not a Political Sci major..
She is not a Magna Cum Laude Grad from Harvard and Columbia like Obama.
Obama spent 10 years as a Illinios Senator while Palin was a Mayor of only 6000 people…
That isn’t enough experience to tie a shoe…

The argument Sarah Palin has no foreign policy and so she’s not ready for president!!!
Ok so Joe Biden is ready to be a president!!! Last time I know, no body in democrats votes for him!!! I guess they forgot about his 30 years of working in foreign relations. And he did make all the wrong judgements when it comes to major crisis!!!

It seems to me that McCain has lost his mind. who is their right mind would choose someone with so little experience. Haven’t we learned from the past 8 years that being a governor is not necessarily a good criteria for being president. Regarding the republican convention, this hurricane saved the day for them. What can Bush and Cheney say about their “successes”. Nothing!!!! Bush didn’t leave the ranch for days after Katrina and now he can’t go to the convention. Is he afraid he’ll be laughed off the stage? Regarding Gov. Palin. She can thank the Democrats for opportunities for her handicapped child. they made all the entitlements for the disabled. I know, I have been a mother of a handicapped child for 40 years and without the Democrats, he would never have gotten a free public school education. Not all of us are privileged enough to have a nanny to care for our children. I had to give up many jobs in order to stay with my son. Day cares do not take handicapped children unless you pay alot of money for it. Babysitters are reluctant to stay with a child with health issues. these are all issues Gov. Palin has not yet faced since that baby is only five months old. Privileges that she has are not the same as many of us who have handicapped children.
Additionally, I was disappointed in ABC with George today. All those speaking are also privileged and that makes the situation entirely different. Also disappointed how they went after Hillary at every turn and are now saying this is a great choice. My choice is to not watch this show anymore.

For all who want to bank on Gov Palin’s “experience”, check out the population of Alaska. Also check out where the money in Alaska’s budget comes from.
Did she have to work to get money for Alaska’s programs? Didn’t think so. It is handed to Alaska by the big oil companies.
Hmmm. I’m not laughing at those celebrities who threatened to leave America if Bush won — I can’t afford to of course, but I’m no longer laughing.

Obama’s choice for VP was based on what he thought was in the best interest of the country. It was a wise and well thought out decision consisting of input from people he and this country respects. This is what I hope we as Americans would ask of our President to do; deliberate, debate, weigh and measure and base a decision on personal experience with a potential VP, ask how the candidate for VP could best serve the president, the cabinet, and the country, ask how they would compliment each other and ask the hard questions and seek the best answers which would be in the best interest of everyone. Obama’s decision making process for his VP was very presidential and courageous. Now McCain on the other hand did not even know his VP choice and still does not. After two meetings he has decided to turn over the keys to this country to Sarah Palin. Ask yourself one question. After meeting a person twice would you be willing to turn over your house keys, car keys, your bank account, you and your children’s future? McCain is.
I am angry about McCain’s choice. While Sarah Palin maybe a nice person and competent governor for Alaska, governing Alaska is a far cry from being second in command of this country. Listening to her speak does not command my attention. She sounds like a comedy player from Saturday Night Live. It is very difficult to take her serious.
I’m sorry, with the state of our economy being what it is, our troops deeply embedded in two wars and with a Russian cold war looming, I am not willing to take a gamble with a Sarah Palin when there are so many more qualified people without her personal responsibilities available to do the job but then again McCain is.
Maybe he is so blinded by his ambition to become president he just doesn’t get it. I personally don’t believe in abortion nor do I believe a woman’s choice should be legislated. A woman has the right in this country to make a life changing choice and she must live with the consequences of that choice.

McCain is an old fox. He is setting out to prove to the world what Americans are really like: He wants to tell the world that there is no way in hell the American people will vote for a black president. So he brings out a Veep with far, far less experience than what he claims Obama does not have, and you know what? It dun matter if she can step in at the last minute to be Commander in Chief, what’s important is that she is white and that’s all that matters.
McCain is sick and slick. McCain is smiling ‘cause he knows what he knows and what he knows everyone knows.
He is playing the old nasty game of politics. He’s got America covered and he thinks America will vote for him no matter what he does, no matter what he says.. Read the comments. Read in between the line of every comment and see what I mean. Dun matter who or what she is. Dun matter if she can be CIC or not!
But what I know is that she ain’t no Obama and neither is McCain and not all Americans are burying their heads in the sand

Visnovsky all you have to do is find out what is a democrat stand for before you cried foul.

I do not understand how the Republicans continue to get away with double standards. The child of the Republican Vice Presidential candidate being pregnant and not married certainly demonstrated “FAMILY VALUES” does it not. If a child of a Democratic political candidate were in the same situation, the religious right would be down on the person like a hawk. The Republicans are always spouting “Family Values. It seems to us that the Republican Party had now lost 2 of it most trumpted issues, family values and experience in government.
Richard Sherwin