A Whiter Shade of Palin

I am sure the McCain campaign would love for Obama’s campaign to keep reminding us of the experience issue. Hopefully on a daily basis.

Republican women office holders who have far more experience must be quite disappointed that they have been skipped over for a gimmick pick.
The McCain campaign is desperate.

Reading this you get the impression Obama is running against Palin.
She’s for VP, how does she stack against Biden?
Joe Biden was a C and D student in fourth tier University of Delaware, plagiarized a law school paper (before he did the same when he stole the Kinnock speech).
Washingtonian Magazine does a poll every year of Congressional staffers. Guess who is the biggest drone? (after Robert Byrd) Joe Biden.
Palin has been praised as a very successful manager, unlike Obama, who except for his failed tenure as head of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago (appointed by flag-stomping-terrorist W. Ayers) has never managed anything. Her approval ratings in Alaska are in the 90%.

Oh Ryan… Was Biden the most experienced senior citizen Democrat? Isn’t Carter older, and therefore, according to your rules, the most deserving VP?
Your desperation is obvious. Who’s talking about Barakulus at the Barakopolis anymore? No one. And it’s hilarious.

Perhaps Jake can tell us how Obama and that guy in his neighbood wasted $100 million that was meant for students

Meltdown time in Obamaland. Sarah Palin for VP -THAT’S A STORYBOOK, MAN

I wonder WHEN this pick was made! I think the, by all accounts, wildly successful DNC convention forced McCain to make this bold, yet very risky pick.

Meltdown in Identity Politics-land!

Isn’t this lady under investigation???
LOL! Well I guess it’s hard to find one that isn’t these days…
Didn’t she praise Obama on his energy plan this month???
LOL! Well I guess it’s hard to find anyone who HASN’T these days…

Jake,
This has positive written all over it.
Experience – she’s not experienced as other choices, but she’s the VP not the Pres. This highlights the fact Obama’s ticket is upside down.
She’s going to draw Clinton supporters. Why? Reasons: Some just want to see a female in a high position like VP. Others want a 2012 run for HRC and this gives them a reason to accept a Republican ticket. This accentuates the fact that Obama passed up a very qualified female in place of a male who didn’t bring more to the ticket.
This will guarantee McCain success.

Well, now we have a “CHANGE” we can believe in. Obama talks the talk and McCain walks the walk.
wow!

McCain just gave up the experience issue. A 72 year old man with a history of skin cancer picks someone with less experience than Obama? This is the ‘pure political pick’ Karl Rove said Obama was going to make.

Bold choice for McCain. Obama played it safe and conservative.
I ask you, who’s the real maverick now?? Obama talks change, McCain DOES change.

Is Obama Clinton’s running mate like he should of been?
Posted by: geevill | Aug 29, 2008 11:37:44 AM
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Every single sane adult in this country knows just how much the Repubs hate the Clintons. She lost, get over it or get help!!

A grand slam for McCain!!!
Excites conservatives, attracts women voters, proves Obama to be dull and unimaginative in his old-man-Biden choice.
That ball was hit outta the park, cleared the parking lot and is still flying!

McCain: Actions over Words
Congratulations McCain/Palin. You’re the real trailblazers.

judgement…what is Mccain thinking
there are so many more qualified women in the republican party.

geevil, I think this came as a surprise to McSame himself, the lady is under investigation and has no understanding of government and economy, a major of 5 ooo people. If that is the simplistic way for McSame to believe that he will get women’s vote by bringing this anti-choice lady as a candidate VP, then he is toasted, completly. OBAMA/BIDEN08. God bless America and God bless Obama.

“Change We Believe” – McCain/Palin 08

John McCain has consistently voted against equal pay for women. Is he going to let Palin get paid the same as a male VP would? Can you say hypocrite? The Republican party should just change their name to reflect the hypocrisy that they continue to spout.

Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum,…. Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum, Dum, sound the taps!!! lolol I am loving it! The Republican party is showing the Democrats what real Progressive moves mean! lololol What a great pick for VP! And, who cares if she is not that experienced. Obama is not that experienced and he is running for President! At least the Republicans know enough to put someone experienced in the head seat! lolol Now the women will go vote for McCain in droves! This is what you get when you run your campaign like a thug instead of a gentleman! He dished Hillary, He dished Bill, He dished Clinton supporters, and on, and on, and on. So, he gets what he deserves now. What was that he said two days after he got the nomination? Regarding the women voters who were so offended by his sexually bashing comments to Hillary, etc? He reacted like a REPUBLICAN!!! All he had to say was, “They’ll get over it!” Guess what? We didn’t get over it and never will! We never got an apology or anything out of that Chicago Boss Tweed!! And, Obama supporters have some nerve saying to us if McCain gets elected they’ll know who to blame. They had their right to vote for who they wanted and we have our right to do the same. The last time I checked the USA allowed people to vote for who they wanted to vote for in this country. So grow up Obama supporters! Your guy made huge and gross miscalculations because his huge ego got the best of him so you have him to blame, and not the Hillary supporters. Good riddance to bad rubbish Obama! Get lost!

“Change, when it’s more than just a campaign slogan!”
McCain/Palin 08!

Addendum:
Will someone explain how in the end this is going to pull the Hillary people over. She is certainly nor pro choice. And please tell me how well it is going to go over with mature more traditional women that a mother of a 5 month old baby with Downs syndrome leaves to run for national office.

Sarah who? From where? Oh dear God, McCain yanks a nobody out of the middle of nowhere because he’s hoping women are stupid enough to vote for the XX chromosome makeup. So much for the argument that he want’s a VP who can govern on day one. S. Palin quote of the year: “What is it that a Vice President does exactly?” Doesn’t even know her own damned job never mind her bosses.

After months of ignoring Obama’s 8 years as an IL legilsator in addition to his 3 1/2 years as a Senator in order to call Obama inexperienced, right wingers now hold somneone’s being mayor of a town of 5000 people as the right experience to be President.
RW hypocrisy knows no bounds.

JA wrote:
She’s going to draw Clinton supporters.
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That is one of the most insulting things I have ever read! HRC supporters did NOT vote for a vagina!!! They voted for Hillary would had experience and judgement. Simply placing a uterus on the ticket does NOT guarantee a woman’s vote!!

I’m so glad he picked her. Now we’ll get the change we need in the White House. Barack Obama!

Gretchen,
Obama respects me and all woman. If you listen to what he says. Haters need not apply.

“If it’s okay for a Senator with no experience to be the democratic presidential nominee, then surely it’s okay for the Governor with no experience to be the number 2 person on the Republican ticket.”
If you hadn’t harped over and over about Obama’s experience, you may not look like such a big hypocrite.
But at least your work was wasted, the McCain campaign is abandoning the experience meme with this pick.

Question: Do you know exactly what the president does everyday?
Obama: Read my lips. But, NO MATTER WHAT, I’m ready. NEVER doubt that.

Jeanne, quit listening to what he “says” and look at what he “does”. They’re two different things.

“as for that VP talk all the time, I tell ya, I still can’t answer that question until, until somebody answers for me: ‘What it is exactly that the Vice President does everyday”
Ready for the job on day 1!
LOL

Peach, yes. There is a difference between Pres and VP. If you don’t understand that, you probably shouldn’t be voting.

Running Alaska for 1 year is not experience. Being mayor of a podunk town of 7,000 is not experience.
She may be great, but Republicans can not claim that Obama is inexperienced anymore without being hypocrits.
In fact, Palin is under investigation now for corruption. The GOP apple NEVER falls far from the tree.

While Barry was congratulating himself in his Greek temple, McCain was busy helping to make real history.

She is under investigation for corruption.
Palin is NOT ready to be President.

Obama was yesterday’s news !!! WE have a new ROCK STAR SARAH PALIN !!!

“So apparently it’s okay a black guy with zero experience can be the #1 pick on the Dems ticket.”
Peach you’re one of the people saying that. Many, many times on this blog.
“But a woman with zero experience can’t be the #2 pick on the Republican ticket.”
It should bother you if you were consistent in your standards.
But we know that is not the case.
As far as experience goes.
8 years as an IL legislator
vs
6 years as a mayor of a small town(pop 5 to 8K).
3 years + in the US Senate.
vs.
1 year + as Alaskan governor.
And since Gov. Palin seems unaware of what the Vice President’s job is, I think its safe to say she’s not ready for it.

By making this choice, McCain is drawing a distinct line in the sand by making this election an energy referendum. Palin’s selection will bring this issue to center stage and will likely be the defining issue of the election as Democrats and Obama oppose any meaningful energy legislation.

“What history is that Mack? Go back to school, adults talking here.”
Bit touchy? I understand. McCain just checkmated your Messiah.
Real Change!
McCain/Palin

So this is McCain’s first ‘presidential’ decision???

Palin adds nothing to the
already hopeless ambition
of McCain to become POTUS.
He’s too flaky to have his
finger on the button and
she’s too untrained for any
job outside Alaska.

WHY DIDN’T OBAMA PICK HILLARY IF MCCAIN EVEN WILL CHOOSE A FEMALE VP?
Posted by: Jeremy | Aug 29, 2008 12:00:53 PM
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Becasue the ENTIRE Repub party and half of the Dems HATE her!!
Try to keep up, do some reading on the side, use Google.

Hmmm….. “Just what does the VP do,” she asks Larry King, She wonders if it will be fruitful for Alaska? Not the US mind you.
So much for the Experience argument from the McCain Camp.

So Thomas thinks Sarah Palin is a beauty.

Critics, you would slam McCain no matter who he picked. She is more than capable…at least as capable as Obama, they have about the same amount of experience (her in an executive position, point Palin, he is probably smarter and more eloquent, point Obama…). I haven’t digested the whole ramifications of this pick, but it blows away Biden as far as pure political guts goes. Also, Palin has been talked about a lot by many people as an outside choice, I think…
I mean, just as far as historic value goes…this campaign, on both sides, is amazing…many congratulations to Obama (although I doubt the press would have lauded the moment as historic if an African-American republican had been nominated first), and now another woman VP pick, after 24 years…I am floored by the history going on this year, frankly I think it’s great.
As a side note, even though there is a lot of partisanship and viciousness going around from both sides on this thread, I would just like to say that I think both presidential candidates are very worthy for the office. They are both better than Bush, Gore, or Kerry were, by far.
Now, if I get attacked for this…I…don’t…understand…
Compliments are a Rovian plot! :)

geevill — like McCain, you don’t get it.

So far in this past hour.. I have learned this about Palin:
She doesn’t know what a VP does
She praised Obama’s energy plan
She praised Obama’s call for a $1,000 rebate for working families
She wants creationism taught in public schools
And she is currently under investigation…
WoW!

Sarah Palin is currently under investigation for corruption.
Just what the GOP loves…criminals.

“Are we still on this issue”. Uh, Palin is running for VP, not President. Get a grip!

Palin adds nothing to the
already hopeless ambition
of McCain to become POTUS.
He’s too flaky to have his
finger on the button and
she’s too untrained for any
job outside Alaska.

Maybe McCain was looking for a girlfriend, not a running mate. Maybe Cindy should worry. Oh I forgot, she owns all of John’s money and houses.

McCain just threw America under the bus for his own election.
I worked on the film “Boxing Helena” my first gig…
anyone who know about the film…it is misogynist and violent toward women to the nth degree.
The two producers knew they would have a tough time getting it made …so they hired a young woman director who had the credential of having a father who was a great director to make their misogynist script about a woman put in a box who has her arms and legs removed and then falls in love with the man who did it.
Palin is Mccain and the conservative right wing’s director.

i dont understand McCain! with so many great choices, he picked a woman because he thinks he’s gonna get more woman on his side?! Pro life-pro choice! we all have choices and he made his! i want a better economy, better education for my kids, better pay for my mother and i want to make as much as the guy next to me. so, i’d rather take a 90% chance with obama than a 10% chance with McCain!

NO NO NO !!!!
I am not a Obama supporter, but DO NOT TAKE MY VOTE FOR GRANTED MCCAIN!!!!!
Just because there is a woman on the ticket, we as women have to ask the same questions of her as with ANY candidate. If we don’t, we would be doing the EXACT same thing that we accuse the blacks of doing as far as them supporting OBAMA.
McCain is CATERING…….PERIOD.
I had such high hopes for McCain and he goes and pulls this. I am sooooo disappointed

McCain should have picked Condi Rice which would have been truly historic. A black women as the vice-president but instead he picked somebody America can’t count on and doesn’t even know what he VP does.

The Democrats started a bogus investigation after Palin became a VP candidate. We all know about that. Let’s hear what Stanley Kurtz learned about Obama and Ayres.

I meant to say anti-choice…sorry.
I’m sure some idiot will pounce that mistake, like they do for every other non-issue

Sarah Palin is currently under investigation for corruption.

Seth, did you see Obama’s speech. You’re riding the wrong horse. Obama is everything McCain CLAIMS to be, actually cares about OTHER PEOPLE, and is more trustworthy. Why don’t you vote to break from the misery George has put us in. McCain has no intention of doing that. Face facts. If Obama were white he would already have a landslide lead in the polls.

Jeremy wrote:
But, that aside, the real long-term strategy for many women here will be HRC 2012.
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OK ding-dong…Hillary as Secretary of State under Obama. Got it?? Put her in a place of REAL power and not back in the Senate. We need OUR version of Madeline Albright and HRC is the one for the job. Not in 2012, but in 2009.

Have you read?
Obama had the same resume as Lincoln.

Hurry up! Pick a woman, any woman. The convention starts Monday!

Sarah Palin is currently under investigation for corruption.

She has an anti-corruption RECORD.
This lady is a very successful manager(her approval ratings in Alaska are in the 90%) unlike Obama, who except for his failed tenure as head of the Annenberg Challenge in Chicago (appointed by flag-stomping-terrorist W. Ayers) has never managed anything.

Wha? Why don’t you lie and try to start some rumers since you are so worried about McCain’s pick. I’m sure that NBC and MSNBC would LOVE to quote you, whether you know what you are talking about or not! And you need to do a little more reading. It wasn’t PALIN who was indicted on corruption charges….it was a Senator (who will probably be reelected because he’s innocent)

so if mcCain goes …
I guess he figures he doesn’t care what happens to the rest of the country as long as he gets elected by pulling a stunt…using a woman who is against women…or atleast a woman who stands with his same stances on where women belong…
He is okay with her being VP because she has to answer to him. and I would guess he picked her because she “doesn’t look like her father is Janet reno”

Jeanne,
Ding dong you’re a FOOL> Obama will NOT give HRC any kind of power. Why? He doesn’t want to be upstaged by Hillary and Bill. Additionally, there is still a large rift between the two.
Obama wants to put his stamp on the Dem party and move it beyond the CLintons.
DING DONG DING DONG

Jeanne, you change your mind with every post.

“Governor for two years vs. Senator for less than two years. Hmmmmmm…really? Do you really want to talk about experience?”
The right wing is math challenged.
Let me help.
Obama elected in 2004. Sworn in on Jan 1st 2005.
Palin was elected in 2006 and sworn in on Dec 4th 2006.

Excellent Pick. At 44 Palin has more executive experience than BHO (Bone Headed Obama). She definitely shows ton of more values than BHO.
BHO’s campain;s statement – ‘Palin is heartbeat away from being President’ is VERY INSULTING and shows their ‘REAL CLASS’. This statement alone is enough for Americans to know BHO’s values.

Mack
you may not remember abe sitting in a racist church as you call it…
but they called abe an appeaser and race trader…
and his church and beliefs also
which back then was like exactly what you are doing.

Ryan C…don’t forget Obamas 8 years in the state legislature.

NOWAY NOHOW NOBAMA!

Excellent choice, Sen. McCain. Maybe you read my email to you endorsing Gov. Palin after all.
McCain/Palin 08

bored boy,
“Politically, he has chosen to turn the race into an ideological campaign”
LOL
What did you think elections were about, popularity contests?

“It wasn’t PALIN who was indicted on corruption charges….it was a Senator (who will probably be reelected because he’s innocent)”
LOL even Palin knows Ted Stevens is guilty.
But onto her own problems.
in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal

Senator Barack Obama is currently under investigation for wrong doing in connection to the Chicago political mob machine. There are a dozen people already in jail, some or all are good buddies of Obama.

Finally, a truly pro-life candidate is offered us. The anti-lifers are livid I see. I am having so much fun watching the fur flying on the net over his vp pick.
Let’s put the anti-lifers on notice that we won’t give up the fight for the innocent unborn and the hearts and minds of the women who go through difficult pregnancies and lives after birthing.
Fiat Voluntas Tua

LIES MARTIN…NO one is that dumb.

Wha?: BHO’s experience in state legislature is voting ‘Present’ against Palin’s ten year executive experience as Mayor. BHO’s less than two years in Senate (out of which almost 1.5 years in campaigning) against two years of Palin as Governer. No comparison.
Also why are we comparing BHO with Palin? Is BHO already accepting he is the behind the scene VP and Biden the President?

Jeremy, it has occcurred to me. But to vote based solely on label of “liberal” is a cop out that I think masks the truth.

“True, but consider that Obama has spent 50% of his time in Senate campaigning for PResident.”
Obama missed only 11 votes in the 109th session of Congress. He has missed 45% of the votes during the
McCain missed 56 votes during the 109th Congress and has missed 63% of the votes in the 110th.
This pick shows the Republicans don’t think the experience meme is not working. Why would you nullify your most often used weapon with this pick unless you knew it wasn’t working.

Ryan C.,
It is not nullifying it. Think for a second before just blabbing spin.
OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, PALIN FOR VP NOT PRESIDENT!
And this just highlights what a ticket is SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE. The President has more experience, the VP less. The Obama/Biden ticket now looks starkly UPSIDE DOWN.

“Wha?: BHO’s experience in state legislature is voting ‘Present’ against Palin’s ten year executive experience as Mayor.”
Executive experience for a town of 5000. Wow those town halls meetings must have been like Reagan Grobachev summits.
“BHO’s less than two years in Senate (out of which almost 1.5 years in campaigning) against two years of Palin as Governer. No comparison.”
No math skills.
Obama was sworn in Jan 1st 2005.
Palin was sworn in Dec 4th 2006.

“which the Obama campaign says is less than 1/20th the size of his former state senate district”
The Obama campaign should never, ever shine a light on Obama’s state senate district.It’s the textbook example of what govt corruption can do.

i luv hillary. i hate obama. i am a lifetime dem. for a minute, i thought about voting for mccain…now i’m like “what?”

If this woman was qualified to be president (which she would be if Gramps dies) she would have RUN for president. Is it really comforting to think that our president could end up being the lady on the other side of the table at the PTA meeting?

It’s cindy who is in trouble….. McCain would have an excuse for lunch meetings suddenly….. to dicuss the Bikini constest

A heart beat away?!!! NO THANK YOU

She’s impressive. The dems are in trouble.

Jeremy are you watching her speak?!!
This is the woman that is going to chase OBL to the gates of he!! if Mccain kicks the bucket
this is the woman who is going to go toe to toe with Putin?
this is the woman who is going to deal with Iran if mccain was to have to leave office because he was downed by cancer…?!1!!!!

Maybe we should have a McCain/Biden ticket (or vice versa). Obama can run with Paulin in 8 years – after they have some experience.

Palin is supremely more qualified than Obama. She was a a city council for 2 years, mayor for 6 years, Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for 2 years and a Governor for 2 years. A pro-life, chose to bring to life a kid with down syndrome…very touching…. The only one on the ticket Dem or Republican that has Executive\Governing\Management experience. The rest are legislators. McCain was a Commander in the Navy. Palin is not only an attraction to women and hillary supporters but also to men who thinks she’s not only hot but with both brains and beauty. Palin should be a great choice. This must have taken away all talk about Obama’s speeach last night. Hea read bumper sticker after bumper sticker and merged them all together and called it a speech. Ths must be an exciting match.

This Clinton Supporter is solidly in McCains block now, Obama: short on details last night and long on wind

McCain doesn’t get it. Hillary received 18 million votes because of her experience and fight for issues important to women. Those women did not vote for her just because she has boobs. The majority of PUMA’s have reorganized post-convention under “NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN”. Hillary will be a substantial partner/leader in the Senate and can do more for the women’s issues she has been fighting and advocating for passing legislation than as VP.

a reader in Georgia
did you just say “she is impressive”
yeah as a co-worker not as the Leader of the Free World
if y’all did not remember that is the job description right
that she could be the leader of the free world if a 72 year old man who has had cancer twice isn’t able to serve out hie term
Alaska?
a year and a half …so she has been governor the length of the primaries?
has she dealt with a vast and diverse and fragile economy of this size on any level?
does she know what the freakin Mujahadeen is?
does she know the difference between sunni and shia?
does she know the history of russia ?
does she know the economics of trade deals with china?
ugh…It is official John mcCain is either as stupid as he has been portrayed… or at best the worst judge of hiring this country has ever seen.

“FOR YOUR INFORMATION, OBAMA WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER (NOT HIGH OFFICE EXPERIENCE) BEFORE HE BECAME SENATOR IN 2004. ”
Neail1785,
Obama was a Senator in the Illinois State legislature from 1997 to 2004.
Before he became a state Senator, he was in fact a community organizer.
All you did was miss 8 years.
I would say the McCain campaign loves the low information voter like yourself but I think its more willful ignorance on your part.

Thanks, John! You just blew the election. A mayor of a town of 8,500 prior to being Gov. for just two years? Are you kidding me?

PTA member, soccer mom, certainly will not out shine McCain. Her speech, 100% behind McCain, and his policies.
Change that brings more of the same.

Its all over the internet: women switching to McCain. Democrats running scared.. Obama is tryign to crank up the “Stop Free Speech” as he did with the Ayers ad by threatening station managers Welcome TO All THE HILLARY SUPPORTERS,

Isn’t it the women voters will determine the next US President? If it’s true, then Pelosi and Dean will be responsible for the lost of White House bid this time by pass over a good female candidate who American might not able to find in the next 20 years.

Neal1785 — the town she was mayor of is smaller than some people’s high schools. WakeUp!

EXCELLENT CHOICE……IT DIDNT’T MATTER TO THIS HILLARY SUPPORTER WHO McCAIN PICKED, I WAS WITH HIM ANYWAY,
BUT NOW!!!!!!!THIS IS PERFECT AND THIS SMART WOMAN, WILL BE A GREAT VICE PRESIDENT!

I am so disgusted, I am going to vote for Bob Barr. Of all the qualified people he could have picked, like Guiliani or Mitt Romney, he picks her? What the hell was he thinking?

I’m setting up a lemonade stand today for all you out of work liberals .. come on by and help me pass out tear rags to the whining Dems!

With Sen. McCain’s voting record on women receiving equal pay for equal work, I think his VP pick is an attempt to balance the budget. :-0

Angry Dem wrote “Boy, the liberals are blowing a gasket.” -
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Even for McCain this is a horrible pick for our entire country regardless of party. He is 72 years old with a history of cancer and this pick does absolutely nothing to reassure both his supporters and others that our country is safe in his VP’s hands. I am not a fan of the 2008 McCain, but could sleep at night if he were President as I could with Obama or Biden.

stock_craft: that’s only true if you think women vote with their reproductive organs. Newsflash – we don’t. We actually care about things like experience and policy positions.

Palin is supremely more qualified than Obama. She was a a city council for 2 years, mayor for 6 years, Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for 2 years and a Governor for 2 years. A pro-life, chose to bring to life a kid with down syndrome…very touching…. The only one on the ticket Dem or Republican that has Executive\Governing\Management experience. The rest are legislators. McCain was a Commander in the Navy. Palin is not only an attraction to women and hillary supporters but also to men who thinks she’s not only hot but with both brains and beauty. Palin should be a great choice. This must have taken away all talk about Obama’s speeach last night. Hea read bumper sticker after bumper sticker and merged them all together and called it a speech. Ths must be an exciting match.
FORMER HILLARY SUPPORTER…NOW FOR MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!! abnd you conservatives thought McCain was wise and so smart, Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If she did ANYTHING in her two years as Gov of Alaska she is more qualified then Obama. He hasn’t accomplished anything.

Plain stupid thats McCain’t

Uh oh! A woman in charge .. look out! Someone with an 83& approval rating in Alaska and a perfect choice! Get ready to boo hoo again soon Dems!

The panderer McCain has no respect this country. This man is 72 years old and a cancer survivor, and he’s going to ask me to put this PTA president one heartbeat away? He should be ashamed of himself, this move was purely political, and was not done with the country’s best interests at heart.

Quick Question: We all know Palin rejected the Bridge to No Where earmark. And McCain has taken ZERO earmarks his entire career. How many earmarks have Obama and Biden rejected or refused to take?
Obama and Biden are proven pigs at the government trough.
“Change You Can See, Not Just Believe!” – McCain/Palin 08

This pick of Sarah Palin is an insult to women and America. A journalism major? Firing a man because he would not fire or alleged “abusive” brother in law? This is all a joke. So will it be less painful if Sarah Palin stands by and watches as McCain attempts to scale back our rights as women with predictable Supreme Court appointments? Oh I forgot, but we will have a woman in office.

Chalk up the western states for McCain!! Sweet music!

Do any of you understand that Obama was a trained attorney before he became a community organizer? That he was elected President of Harvard Law Review by his peers and graduated from Harvard Magna Cum Laude? Do you realize he could have made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year working for some Wall Street Law Firm? Do you know he taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for 10 years. (You know, the “Constitution of the United States of America”, the one Bush/Cheney have been trying to “gut” the past few years. So, tell me this guy doesn’t know his government and how it should work. You complain that the guy isn’t experienced, then go on to complain that he picks an experienced man to be his V.P. What do you want? Just admit you hate Obama cause he’s half black and stop with the petty excuses.

I sure hope Tina Fey can come back to SNL. Maybe this’ll work, but my initial thought on this pick is that McCain is transparently pandering to women voters.

As a woman who has been supporting the democrats, I have waited all my entire life to have a woman in the White House.
I am most definitely not going to let this opportunity pass me by.
The men can rant all they want but woman are going to support John McCain.

Ok GeeCee – works for me .. I despise him! What about it?

This is too funny. Palin was governor of a state with a population of maybe 700,000? And you want to compare this to Obama’s experience from Illinois – a state with 13 million people?

This was pure gold for John McCain.
Yes people, keep up the childish remarks about Palin being a “younger woman for John McCain to have an affair with”. Please keep it up. You’re alienating all female voters every word you speak.
If you didn’t learn anything from the Houses of McCain debacle, you’ll know Obama doesn’t know how to properly. For instance, you don’t attack a guy for having multiple houses that he acquired honestly when you acquired yours with the help of a political campaign contributor.
Now Obama is going to try to go after experience. The sad fact is, Obama has no more experience than Palin. She in fact has MORE executive experience, and she actually HAS ACCOMPLISHMENTS (she doesn’t just talk about them).
But all this aside, look what you’re doing. You’re comparing the President’s experience of one ticket to the VP’s experience of another’s. That in itself is a huge mistake.
This will play out in McCain’s favor. And this will help tremendously in states like OH, PA, MI.

How fitting, a real Greek tragedy for Barry.

I find it hilarious….HIGH-LARIOUS …that Obama supporters are criticizing Palin’s experience, when your man Obama, running for the highest office in the land, has NO experience. You have absolutely NO business….none, zero, zilcho…talking about experience, when the Dem ticket is a KANGAROO ticket…. strong on the back, weak and puny in the front.
McCain’s ticket is just perfect. And I just love Palin…..what a pistol! She’ll put Biden in his place at the VP debate, that’ll be a hoot!
And, this woman knows OIL, the most important thing effective our econony.
Two patriots in our whitehouse, can this get any better?
mcCain/Palin…

The more the electorate get to know her, the electrifying the GOP ticket will be !!!
Go McCain….Go Palin

Woman support John McCain.

Palin, champion of big oil.
I want to criticize her because her husband works for the biggest oil drilling company in the world and I don’t want more oil politicians in office to do nothing but raise gases, possibly to $7-10 as is their target with the next Republican. He recently went on-leave so there wouldn’t appear to be a conflict of interest while his wife runs office, since his co. BP has been paying Alaska off to do offshore drilling and her husband helps lobby to increase oil taxes for a living. WAKE UP unless you love going broke keep sticking your head in the sand. I’m not gonna let a devil in disguise fool me but that’s fine if guys get a hard on and vote for her so they can be a broke joke. I can’t bring myself to vote for Obama, but I am not crazy to vote for more inflation and higher gas prices by oil cronies in office either.

“The choice of the person who would be a heartbeat away is especially important”
Not as important as the heart beating in the White House.

A 72 year-old cancer survivor has just put the least qualified VP in American history on his ticket. What a disaster.

What was that dog and pony show that happened the past few days in Denver?? Oops – already forgotten! Sweet!
McCain – Palin 08
BRILLIANT!!

You’re right Mr Obama. This country needs a change.
We badly need a woman in the White House.

I am genuinely astonished at the right wing posts claiming that Palin has MORE experience than Obama. I’m not sure that being mayor of a tiny town with a population that’s a quarter the size of Rick Warren’s church is terribly impressive experience. But isn’t the experience question, on both sides, kind of foolish? There are plenty of people in this country with incredible amounts of experience – I don’t see them getting elected to high office. What we want is intelligence, wisdom, judgment, leadership, the ability to inspire people, and yes, a gifted speaker. None of these republicans criticized oratorical skills when Reagan was in office. Most great leaders – Lincoln, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Churchill, and MLK have been great speakers.

If McCain crokes…what experience in National Security will Palin have to protect this country????
He should have gone with Condi Rice.
Palin is such a risk i’m not willing to gamble on…NO WAY!

Palin brings squat to the
ticket. She’s against
issues that matter most to
women. It’s hard to see
infromed women voting for
her.

Any woman who votes for McCain/Palin simply because she is a woman is an idiot. The first time you ever heard of her was probably this morning. I’m not going to fault her for lack of experience because it is the same problem I have with Obama. However, as a woman and a democrat I cannot vote for anyone who supports the causes she embraces – strong opposition to abortion, lifelong NRA member, use of Alaskan oil rather than alternative energy sources and a supporter of the war in Iraq. She even hunts and kills moose on a regular basis. Lovely. I didn’t like Hillary because she was a woman – I liked her because she stands for the things I believe in. I might not LOVE Obama but he and Biden are a heck of a lot closer to my ideals than a moose killing, gun loving, woman- rights hating conservative. No thanks.

Allie,
Let’s ask the question: Isn’t a black person who votes for Barack Obama just because he’s black also an idiot?

Palin is a great person… but most people will have trouble imagining her as president.
Posted by: Blip | Aug 29, 2008 1:02:04 PM
Palin is the best person for the job. And after John McCain serves his two terms as President, Palin can run for the top post herself.

“Any woman who votes for McCain/Palin simply because she is a woman is an idiot.”
And why should they vote for Barry “sweetie”?

Obama nailed it last night. McCain blew it again. Rush Limbaugh is wrong- women are not interchangeable! The first female vice president or president will be Hillary, not this other woman, Palin. She is not even qualified to be an aide for Hillary. I can’t wait for Hillary to campaign and attack Palin’s thin resume and shaky qualifications. I expect Hillary to go out and attack her in campaign speeches. She is now Hillary’s public enemy number one! Palin majored in Journalism and communications!! Not History, no legal background. McCain again exercises extremely calculated but poor, poor judgement. Palin said a month ago that she doesn’t even know what a VP does!! Mayor of a town of 8400 people? Two years as governor? Ridiculous.

geevil….you hate Obama and now you slam McCain.
WHO ARE YOU VOTING FOR?

Allie,
Let’s ask the question: Isn’t a black person who votes for Barack Obama just because he’s black also an idiot?
Posted by: JA | Aug 29, 2008 1:05:27 PM
That’s a very good point.

Thanks McCain
The ultimate display of incompetence and lack of judgement.
You are making this sooo easy for the Dems to reclaim the white house.

I hate to say this but if you thought, or remember, the 84 Bush/Ferraro debate was a smackdown wait till Joe B. and Sarah Smile get into it.
Lets see When Biden began in the senate she was EIGHT YEARS OLD.

Can you hear that?? Can you hear that stampede? Women are rushing over to support McCain/Palin ’08.

If one dismissed the Alaskan Governor as inexperienced to possibly step in to be a president, then one has to dismiss Obama, too. The difference is she has executive experience and will be in the 2nd spot where Obama with much less executive background will be an on-the-job-learning.
I can imagine in Palin’s acceptance speech she will thank Hillary for cracking the ceiling for her and that she’s the torch bearer for women now that Hillary has been pushed aside. For someone who is not familiar with Hillary’s background, he/she will not be able to tell whether Hillary is a rep or dem after the Republican convention. This decision really cements McCain as Mac Can. Only he can do this with guts. Obama can only read.
Mac Can 08!!!

John McCain will now win this coming election in a landslide. The Dems have screwed up their chances once again. Wait until Gov. Palin destroys Biden in her upcoming debate. Biden was instrumental in voting in the wrong way on the huge mortgage mess. I’ve watched this talented lady tear up her opponents in the past. She can outthink Biden and Barack HUSSEIN Obama at the same time.

Allie….Obama and Biden are politics as usual, NO CHANGE. Biden has more in common with McCain!
And lets just run that loop over and over until Nov. 4 from Hill, Bill and Joe…..BO not ready to be Prez….this is a fairytale.
McCAIN/PALIN

No doubt PEACH!! Great post! Isn’t that comical stuff???

Allie,
Let’s ask the question: Isn’t a black person who votes for Barack Obama just because he’s black also an idiot?
Posted by: JA | Aug 29, 2008 1:05:27 PM
That’s a very good point.
JanePhilip – absolutely!!! As are white men that will only vote for white men. The bottom line is people need to vote on the ISSUES that are important to them, NOT on the basis of the gender or race of the candidate.

This just in:
Republican #2 choice more qualified than the Dem #1!
How sweet it is!!

Would someone PLEASE tell Wolfson his 14.5 minutes are up. Possibly THE MOST INCOMPETENT campaign manager in the long and ignominious history of Democratic Party campaign managers and the press still quotes him as if he has some insight. Looks like 100 miles from home & foot in mouth is the new definition of expert.

McCain just lost my vote. You can’t just put a skirt on a women, chose her as your VP and expect us to vote for you. I don’t want to be pandered to I want SOLUTIONS.
Obama has 2 months. Yesterday he went a great deal.

Obama’s Camp is so rattled by Palin they made fun of small-towns again.
Or it could be that Obama is upset that she has better credentials than him.
Or maybe because McCain stole his thunder in a major way!

Peach
first of all race and sex should not be an issue here so I won’t take the low road with you
This is about actual experience in handling real issues.
Clearly even obama a political rookie has more experience than palin. A state and us senator of a major state.
Palin has more moose than people in her state. No big issue to face as gov of alaska.
The farthest point in the country from the ruff and tumble gridlock in dc. Palin doesn’t have a clue of what she is getting into.
on top of all that, look who is at the top of the ticket MR POWDER KEG himself. She will have no power in the white house which just makes here a ceremonial pick.
The days of vetting a VP on spelling “potato” are over.
Obama make the SMART choice by picking someone who will HELP him lead and could step in seamlessly if something should ever happen to him
THAT’S COUNTRY FIRST
McCain’s deal is
PANDERING FIRST.

I bet the older status quo Republicans are seething. This is going to be great. I heard her speech. Talk about not knowing what to talk about. I’m a Democrat but I have yet to hear what the Republicans are going to do for America. If you want the same, vote for McCain. I really feel strongly about Obama/Biden being in the WH next year. We have got vote for them because they will take us in a positive direction. I don’t know about you but I want my situation to improve.
or America will fail.

Palin is a retrograde candidate
like McCain.
Forward-looking progressive
women will reject her.

For all those in the News Media and for all those Democrats who say that Governor Palin is a risk because she does not have the experience to be Vice-President of the United States.
This is so funny, coming from people who believe that Senator Obama after being only 4 years in the US Senate and not done anything has the experience and is ready to be President of the United States, jajajaja.
At least Governor Palin has done something!!! Governor Palin is everything that Obama says he is but he is not. She is young, she is a minority, she is a reformer, she is a Washington Outsider, and she has stood up to her Party and the Special Interests of this Country to put us the people of the United States first.
The big difference here is that Governor Palin has actually done all that Obama preaches and she has done it in High Heels.

Omentum…we don’t want a Pres. who needs a Biden to help him, lead him, teach him.
AMERICANS VOTE TOP OF THE TICKET EVERYTIME!
McCAIN/PALIN ’08

“you know, the loans we used to fund an unneeded War in Iraq.”
Didn’t Joe B support the war?

I think that McCain just wrote his ticket out of Washington. What was he thinking? She is definitely not going to attract Hillary’s supporters. If anything, he just threw them over to our side. Palin supports everything Hillary’s voters are against.
If this was his first decision as a presidential candidate, imagine what a disaster the White House would be.
McBush just buried himself.

Joyce – thank you for your candor! Wish that all of you posting against Obama with totally foolish arguments would just admit the truth. To say he is inexperienced with all the time he has put into public service just doesn’t cut it. He knows how to work with people from all walks of life. That is an important attribute to have when you are seeking the office of POTUS. He listens, he compromises, he gets things done and he will appoint capable people to government posts (both Democrat and Republican, I have no doubt) that will help him accomplish what is best for all Americans. Those are important attributes. If you hate him because of his race, then just admit it. But don’t say he isn’t qualified or experienced, because you know deep down that he is and your reasons for hating him have nothing to do with his qualifications at all!

this place looks the bots are short-circuiting.

Palin has more executive experience and more accomplishements than Obama–who voted present 129 times in the Senate.
She’s more qualified to be president than Obama is.
A fisherman, hockey player, member or the NRA–she’s tougher than Obama too.
I love her already. But Hillary is still #1.

McCain/Palin 2008!!!

again
Jake
please go ask her these questions
What are the problems with the trade agreement with China
what is the Mujahadeen
Name the countries in the middle east and asia that have nuclear weapons
what is the state of Russia’s nuclear arsenal?
What is the role of FEMA?
Who is the head of the UN?
What committees does the us presently sit on?
What is the last estimates of our GDP?
Where does the role of the supreme court come into play with the US federal governemtn?
what experience and understanding of our contstituation do you have?
List off the bill of rights?
Which document and what piece talks about the separation of church and state?
What is a federalist?
What is the population of the uS?
How many live below the poverty line?
What is the three top drains on our national budget?
What are the largest exports the US has list the top 3…
Who is the President of Georgia…who is his second in command?
Who is the head of China?
What countries are in NATO?
What is the european union?
What was the 2 greatest foreign policy mistakes this country has ever made?
Can she put our tax policy in historical perspective?
that’s a start
something tells me she can’t answer these
Obama and Biden …answer them with detail.

To pick someone because of their gender is the BIGGEST Slap in the fact to Hillary and all woman voters. If you are going to pick a woman, then pick a woman who qualified. Hillary was qualified, not just a pretty face.
HUGE SLAP IN THE FACE to Sen Clinton nand ALL woman including those other wonderful experienced republician women

Is that the best that McLame can do? She has GOT to do better than what I just saw. A squeeky voice and politics don’t mix.

Now, we have a cause and that is to terminate the aspirations of the sexist Obama.

The thought of Obama becoming president is far more fightening than Sarah Palin becoming president.

JA
Thank for the unuseful insight of letting me know of what the president and vp candidates are. I was responding to PEACH’s remarks.
Experience is important but judgement is most important to me. On that not OBAMA is my choice HANDS DOWN.
Judgement is to think ahead. Obama did just that. If something were to happend to him, would the VP be ready. Of course BIDEN would be.
But McCain failed miserably here. He is closer to something tragic happening (GOD FORBID) (cancer surviver, old, very old, showing early signs of senility)
So tell me. Is Palin a half term governor of Norther Exposure is ready for president? Are you serious?

Palin
has experience in the office of Governor
as long as the primaries have been.
Before that she was the mayor of a town of 8000
no law background…no constitutional background no foreign policy background no diversified economic background… no security background…no national background…
she is anti – almost every women’s issue.
This is a trojan horse.

blip: I am not voting on Race or Gender… I am voting for my self and my children’s future…. who can give us a chance. That is Obama. Not McCain. If McCain is put into office he will destroy the middle class which in return will destroy this country.

“She has GOT to do better than what I just saw. A squeeky voice and politics don’t mix.” Debra, wow, more sexist and bigoted comments from Obama supporters! VOTE NO TO BIGOTED OBAMA SUPPORTERS like Debra!!!

Omentum…we don’t want a Pres. who needs a Biden to help him, lead him, teach him.
AMERICANS VOTE TOP OF THE TICKET EVERYTIME!
McCAIN/PALIN ’08
Posted by: Debra
Soooo, how do you square that comment with the Bush/Cheney relationship? Republicans, time to buy a clue…

PALIN = PAIN for Barack Obama!

Soddruntle.
You raise a GREAT POINT. When the ticket is upside down, like Bush/Cheney and Obama/Biden, DISASTER ENSUES.
THANKS!! :)

Well Who is she?
Where does she stand on National Issues?
Will the campaign now have to spend the next couple months rolling her out?
Will the discussion about her, help the McCain Campaign, or distract from it?

I always thought he had to pick a woman to have a chance. But I thought he’d pick a woman with experience and older.
I simply cannot imagine her taking over the country if McCain were to die in office.

He based his campaign on experience saying Obama wasn’t ready to lead now he picks a pageant girl with no experience. I can’t wait to see the GOP defend this. As old as he is, he needs a firm second in command. Should have picked Romney. Even better Condy.

Why are the Obama supporters laughing at Sarah Palin’s alleged lack of experience? Aren’t they the same people who tried to convince the country that lack of experience didn’t matter? I don’t get it. Obama’s lack of experience doesn’t matter, but Palin’s does? Are you guys forgetting that Obama is running for President, and Palin is running for Vice President? If you were running a Biden/Obama ticket, your argument might hold water. With Obama at the top of the ticket, your argument is laughable.

McCain just lost this fence-sitter. To think I’d be happy with a anti-choice, anti-gay “interesting story” with no experience and place her next to old McCain’s heart, well, I voted for Hillary and Palin is no Hillary. What an insult to say she will draw women just because of her gender.

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel:
“Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Given Sarah Palin’s lack of experience on every front and on nearly every issue, this Vice Presidential pick doesn’t show judgment: it shows political panic.”

wow, i still have to give this time to settle… and to study the issues/strength’s that she brings to the table-but my first reaction was WOW!
hillary supporter in new mexico

If she were pro choice, as an Obama supporter, I would be freaked out.
but this is a gift to Obama; especially if Hillary campaigns against her.
At least she is consistent with her Pro Life position. Having a kid with Downs is impressive to me. However, I am dead set against a pro lifer for VP.
McCain just lost the election

geeville
I think Obama is more ready that McCain is.
Clearly has has showed more SOUND judgement than McCain.
I am not looking for someone with more age. I am looking for someone with more brains.
McCain once demonstrates his lack of judgement in picking a half term governor of Northern Exposure.

Obama Experience
Community Organizer(7 years)
Chicago State Senator(7 years)
Illinois US Senator(3 years)running for President for 1.5 years.
Palin Experience
City Council Member( 4 years)
Mayor(10 years)
Chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission(3 years)
Govenor(2 years)
Sarah Palin has more experience in her pinky than Barack will ever have, let’s not get it twisted. do your research before you even start talking smack.

Palin = gift to Obama after the initial excitement dies down.
What a historic blunder. I am impressed.

If John McCain died (heaven forbid)
you all think it is really okay …that he picked this woman?
Put it in your minds…this woman…against the war against terror…
or the very different economy than a very small state economy like Alaska. which I may add she has only been the governor of since the primaries started.
ugh.
why didn’t John mccain put out a contest to all women saying …”hey if you donate to me…you too could be my vice president.

Palin does excite the base… which is going to help McCain a bit.
But I don’t think everyone else is going to see Palin through the same rose-colored glasses.
Palin is a twofold pander: a genuflection before the creepy fringe of the Republican Party and a desperate hope that Democratic women will vote for someone who they disagree with simply because she is a woman.
If you compare Hillary to Palin… there is a big difference. And I think that most women can recognize that Palin doesn’t come anywhere near Hillary in ability, intelligence, and gravitas.

Interesting to note that Palin gave birth to a Downs Syndrome son recently (and she knew he would be a DS baby) while a Downs Syndrome baby is at the heart of Obama’s vote that babies who survive a botched abortion should be left to die.
America has a clear choice between the Republican and Democrat tickets.

Has anyone realized that Palin’s nomination as VP probably has Hillary seething mad? Hillary will be very motivated to tear her down, ASAP. When Hillary runs for President again in 4 or 8 years, she will not want to risk splitting the women’s vote with Palin- who will have had more foreign policy experience than Hillary, by virtue of being VP. Don’t ever underestimate a motivated Hillary Clinton. She is going to come out firing guns right back at Palin. Hillary will not allow her to get into the White House, because she will lose all chance of being President someday. Hillary can say the anti-Palin things that Obama and Biden can not.

Palin rejected the Bridge to No Where pork. McCain hasn’t taken any pork.
Obama and Biden are earmark kings and have made sure federal money went into the pockets of their family and supporters.

Let me get this straight and empty suit Obama with no national security experience and no executive experience picks Biden to help him with national security issues and you think that somehow that’s a good thing, but McCain picks a qualified woman that has executive experience and a track record of fighting corruption as well as is the commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard and this is a joke, we will see who is laughing come November 4th.

as far as the experience or lack of issue goes. obama’s camp has insisted that experience is not necessary…so they have invalidated any argument against that issue for starters…
they have countered every argument about obamas lack of experience obama, his handlers, and supporters that is.
hillary’s run for the presidency is already opening pathways for women. thank you, hillary.

Good choice !!

“This woman does not come close to what Hillary believes in or stands for”
Hillary is not on any ticket.

Certainly, this news makes quite a stir for a moment… but this news is like a shocking news… after 1 or 2 days, when the shock is gone, People will find Maccain and Palin pair will look really weird.
And if you pick such a conservative choice, do you think hillary supporters or independet women will go for her?
Maccain should have picked other female contenders.
He can shock the world with this pick. But that will continue maximum 2 days.
Then they will realize: next to 72 years old Prez, do you want to put this woman in WH?

ALl of a sudden Palin has “Commander-in-Chief” experience? When was the last time Alaska went to war with another country.
In business, we call that padding the resume. And you throw those applications in the garbage.

If all he care sbout is the women who voted for Hilly guess what that says about how he cares for this nation….She is a nothing.He is to damn old I know by his choice now he has lost it….Heaven help us….

“The thing that people are forgetting… the Democrats… 18 million of them voted for Hillary.
It is a bit off the mark to call the Democrats an anti-woman party.”
Hillary with half a million more votes, more experience and a greater grasp of the issues was discarded by the DNC for a little experience talker…they are the anti-woman party.

geevil
mark my words…
Clinton AND Ferraro before this day is done are going to trash this choice.
because she is a trojan horse dressed in Armani and Shania Twain’s hairstyle.
she is against Hillary and Ferraro…she thinks they should have gotten paid less if they HAD been elected.

What a checkmate!
Barack Obama’s spokesman says that Alaska governor Sarah Palin is too inexperienced to be vice president..Obama’s Camp is so rattled by Palin they made fun of small-towns again. They can bring themselves to call her Governor Palin. Or it could be that Obama is upset that she has better credentials than him.
What a checkmate!

Republicans put in fronts the VP with the experience same or even better than Obama(Obama was never a governor He He He). Mr. Howard Dean your leadership is flawed and with your one track mind, you created mess for Democrats in Florida and Michigan and also divided the democrats instead of uniting them and painted the picture that unity was Clinton’s responsibility. Your decision has cost one election and May be it will cost this another one. Long and hard journey waits for Democrats when Republicans are ready to take advantage of the foolishness.

“If all he care sbout is the women who voted for Hilly guess what that says about how he cares for this nation….”
At least he cares for someone other than himself, unlike “Greek temple”, look at me, Barry.

Alaska does not have to go to war with anyone, their National Guard personnel are deployed to iraq like those of many other states, you are responsible for making sure that they are taken care of and have all of the neccessary equipment like any other state Guard unit

Undecided women are suddenly flocking to McCain because he has chosen Palin for VP? Just because she is female? I certainly hope not!
Read up on the ISSUES, people. Take a stand for what and who you believe in.
Let’s stop the knee-jerk reactions to McCain’s choice of a woman for VP and read up on who she is and what she stands for.
If you agree with her views and can realistically see her leading the country, fine.
But Palin is no Hillary.

Anyhow, Now, the DEM ticket looks suddenly so heavy on experience.
This woman with Maccain — standing side by side looks really amateurish.
Maccain is never for WOMEN. he is against equal pay. So this decision is not respecting woman.
Maybe, Maccain can stand strong male VP.

FYI if you’re still shouting PUMA, please get checked out. you have another agenda. Hillary wholeheartedly endorsed not just OBama but his overall plan, its not about the person, its about what they bring in terms of policies.

Obama never learns he hates small town America
Spokesman Bill Burton:
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency…
And before this one
Obama was caught in an uncharacteristic moment of loose language. Referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses, the presidential hopeful said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
His remarks are elitist and out of touch.”

so a woman is good enough for the republicans, but not good enough for the democrats hmmmm!
i really do need to register independent.
hillary supporter in new mexico

dl-what budget has Obama been in charge of? what state has he been in charge of?What government agency has he been in charge of? Please enlighten me on his executive level experience, and although her commander experience is limited to the guard, what commander in chief experience does he have, she is still ahead of the top of the Democratic Ticket for God Sakes, do you people research?

There are three people running with the experience to be president this fall, and Obama is not on my “Short List”.

You’re kidding- Palin’s not only a gun-toting, pro-abortion, deeply religious conservative, but she also is anti-Gore and does not believe in the science of global warming and the need to protect the environment? She’s from Alaska? These hard-core republicans are unreal.

Posted by: Jeff | Aug 29, 2008 1:42:25 PM
I am not at all happy with Obama. I agree with just about everything you said about him. His thugs stole the primary through race-baiting and caucus fraud. I am just saying that McCain picking some wingnut for VP is not going to make me think I’ve gotten Hillary is disguise.
I am libertarian and I have nobody to vote for. Even the Libertarian party picked an anti-choice candidate. I have nowhere to turn, literally.
.

“Mack, you ever realize the architecture of Washington DC (including the White House and Capitol) include many columns. You gonna bash the architecture in DC now?”
He wasn’t in Washington, he was in a football stadium.

Jeff: You are correct, his uncle did not liberate Auschwitz. However, his great-uncle (the generation that fought in WWII) did participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
But clearly this lack of definition allows you completely discount the actual point of his speech and determine he is a liar.
Odd how you are stretching so hard to smear Senator Obama rather than to build up Governor Palin (a governor for less than 2 years of a state with a population less than South Dakota and a mayor of a town of almost 8000 before that). Palin is not as inept a choice as her resume suggests, you may aid “your team” better by getting out the word on her good traits rather than attack Obama on harmless rhetorical simplifications.

john 18 months as the governor of ALASKA does not give you better experience…ugh.
spin spin spin…
this woman meeting with the heads of state and knowing their detailed histories…
and discussing the intricacies of our Constitution… this is not some movie …THIS IS THE WORLD’S FUTURE if a 72 year old man was elected who had cancer twice and something happened.
do you all get that.
Obama has proven himself even on the international stage over the past year and a half…
before that he proved his knowledge and adeptness and abilities with the international and national economic and policy issues.
Before that he hasd 11YEARS! in state legislature…
this woman has a year and a half as governor of a small budget and population state and 3 years as Mayor of a town of 9000 people!!!!!!
how stupid can stupid get by voting for this woman never mind risking the country by picking her.

Close your eyes and picture this woman in the oval office. Picture her meeting with Putin or Medvedev. Never had a problem with Hillary in terms of her capability. With Palin, I just think McCain gave the race to Obama. Indeed, it has nothing to do with her gender. Quite the opposite, does she have the temperment, the judgment, and the gravitas? No way. And even if she does, I think with 60 days left there is no way she can convince the country otherwise.

This is good however, now all you PUMAS have a place to go. doesn’t matter if its pro-life, stauncingly opposing the right to choose, pro torture, xenophobic, war mongering party. i’m sure you’re all welcomed.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08

And how was she a better choice than Romney, Huckabee and Pawlenty?

So, in other words, it’s okay for every African-American in the U.S. (including MANY Republican A-As)to vote for Obama simply because he is half-African-American, but it is NOT OK for women to vote for John McCain because he picked a WOMAN for V.P?
TALK ABOUT A DOUBLE STANDARD!!!!

Go McCain!

Can you say Obama is a LOSER

“However, his great-uncle (the generation that fought in WWII) did participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.” But certainly, Obama advertised it as Obama’s uncle liberating Jews from Auschwitz, which is a LIE. Simple or not, Obama LIED about his uncle liberating Jews from Auschwitz. VOTE NO TO LYING OBAMA SUPPORTERS!!!

decentAmerican:”Palin, even in her relatively short time in office, successfully conquered ethics and budget reforms, managed our largest oil reserves, and commandeered the states National Guard. Obama, in his time in the us senate…..ran for President.”
Could you offer a specific action she undertook to “manage our largest oil reserves”? Or what exactly she did when she “commandeered the states National Guard” (did she organize support for a hurricane or something)?
And why do you persistently ignore Senator Obama’s documented work in the Illinois senate – a state with over 18 times the population of Alaska?
I’m not sure why I bother wasting time replying – anyone misled by your biased spin can set themselves straight quickly enough with a trip to Snopes.com, Factcheck.org, or even just google.

“opposing the right to choose, pro torture, xenophobic, war mongering party.” Wow, more politics of fear and hypocrisy from Obama supporters!!!

SandyB
constitutional experience
understanding of national governemtn
understanding of foreign policy
knowledge of our trade agreements
knowledge of the intracacies of our relationship with Russia and georgia
the list goes on where she is lacking
she is off on almost every single issue.
it is not about it being okay for African Americans to vote for Barack and women to vote for this woman…
it is about she being a trojen horse…
she is against women’s issues
she is overwhelmingly under qualified and under aware to deal with the massive problems we are facing
she has no platform or evidence to show ANY understanding…
Obama has explained the situation debated them discussed them in detail in q and a ‘s and on his website since the primaries began a year and a half ago.
it is that she has nothing but a year and a half as gov and 3 years being mayor of a town of 9,000.
this is crazy.

McCain is Republican so Gov. Palin shores up his conservative base….and if Obama camp dares to bring up experience, especially if and when Biden attacks her with that – WHEN PALIN HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN THE TOP OF THEIR TICKET…BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!
If he ever says anything to her…she should say…YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM RUNNING WITH THE MOST LACKING IN EXPERIENCE CANDIDATE IN HISTORY….YOU SAID SO YOURSELF.

“For a decade she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, which has a population of approximately 8,471, which the Obama camaign says is less than 1/20th the size of his former state senate district.”
Why, exactly, do we have to take Senator Obama campaign’s word on this? Doesn’t the media do any verification at all anymore?

I meant “Republican lite”

It doesn’t matter… male or female… Palin talks like she’s running Student Body Vice President.

I sense the Republicans are starting to doubt McCain’s choice.
The “inexperience” factor has just been taken off the table for the Republicans.
Say hello to President Obama. McCain just handed Obama the keys to the White House.

Haven’t the Obamabots spent months arguing that experience doesn’t matter? Now it suddenly matters? Wow, that’s twisted logic.

I think Palin’s pick sort of illustrates the whole GOP/maverick thing… you kind of sit around, listen to your gut, kind of do some strategery, and then shoot from the hip.
This is how we ended up in Iraq.
This is how the economy ended in up in the toilet.
This is how McCain picked Palin.

Jeff, don’t take it personal. Obama also puts down women. Well I’m one PUMA who is going to fight back.

I sense the Democrats are having doubts about there “presidential pick”. I don’t think the state of IL. has a international border with Russia.

Andrea,
I don’t think the issue is whether or not experience matters. I think the issue with this choice is that it makes it hard for McCain to argue that it matters, and that was one of the central arguments of his campaign.
One of the central rules in politics is clarity and consistency of your message.
The Republicans have been very good at that for many years, and its why they were winning.
McCain has had a problem staying on message, and he just seriously diluted one of the central messages of his campaign.
And I am sorry, people can repeat the official line, but there is no serious way to claim Sarah Palin was logically a better choice than people like Mitt Romney.
Its pretty clear (McCain made it clear) this was about getting women’s votes and it looks like either pandering or desperation.
What was wrong with Kay Bailey Hutchison? She has alot of experience, including on military issues and foreign affairs. She would have been a serious, thoughtful choice.
This I am afraid is not.

@dl: “because she is a trojan horse dressed in Armani and Shania Twain’s hairstyle.”
A bit sexist, dl? That’s not like you.
So he chose a MILF. The Internet generation should be thrilled with that.
McCain showed class and congratulated Obama yesterday in a prime time ad. Today he brings a fine woman into the race and all you can do is try to reduce her to the fashion page?
Did you ever wonder why Hillary wears pant suits? Because, that took her off the fashion page and put her on the front page where she deserved to be.
Be a sport and save the sexist rants until after the holiday and I’ll save the socialist rants.
Have a great weekend, Sport!

dl- thank you. No, a small town mayoralty is not in and of itself qualifications for the presidency or vp. I’m simply saying that it is valuable executive experience because accountability is immediate and inescapable. Also, if your decisions are bad, you see the consequences quickly and feel the pain of those badly hurt – one of whom may well be you because you have no staff to fall on its sword for you – if you ruin the town’s sewer system it backs up in your home.
Its hands on, trench government.
An aside: When JFK came up with the best and the brightest, Richard Russell said he would be comforted if just one of them had run for dogcatcher.

Can you honestly imagine her in a debate with Biden?
I pity her. Biden wouldn’t even have to try.
McCain may have rallied his base but Obama just won the independent base.
Obama 08. It’s a landslide.

Of course it’s a pander…
The GOP has been desperate to try to stir up discontent and resentment amongst Democrats.
They tried Operation Chaos. They tried stirring up stuff at the Convention. They know they can’t win it, so they have this naive idea that some kind of miracle PR move is going to distract us all from the issues.
But it’s 2008… we’ve already voted for Bush twice… and paid the price. People aren’t going to be duped again. No matter how much flak the GOP puts out there. It’s not going to happen.

intersting pick and in my opinion not a bad one…
we shall see the day after the election which party was correct…
i’m mccain 08 – he has the experience, she more goeverning experience than obama and at least it appears some convictions versus mr. PRESENT (obama)
so we shall see

Palin has spent her time in office fighting corruption, shaking up government.
Obama has spent his time in office…running for President.

This is a winning team. The Obama camp is vainly making mountains out of mole-hills. The fat lady has sung!

Well I guess its good news for the Obama camp that no one on the McCain side (as evidenced by the mindless posts on here) wants to address the issue of how those not already behind McCain are going to read this.
People, its irrelevant if McCain supporters like this choice. They were already behind him.
He needed new people to get behind him. This was a stupid choice. This was a really stupid choice.

McCain just sold out this country for the sake of becoming president.
He picked someone who is nowhere near ready to be president and he did it for the sake of the women vote.
The Republicans party in Washington are devistated…Hutchinson couldn’t even defend the decision…claiming she doesn’t know anything about Palin.
I cannot vote for someone who is so transparent in chosing a woman soley to get the women vote, forgetting there are REAL DANGERS AND EVIL in this world that she wouldn’t know how to fight or protect us against if he croaks!!!!
At least if anything happens to Obama, we know BIDEN will be ready.
I’m voting for OBAMA/BIDEN
Sincerely,
Former Republican.

“Should something happen to John McCain I can guarrentee Palin will have the best advisors around her”
Umm the best advisers the GOP have ran the Bush administration and that is a complete disaster.

Gov. Palin knows there are only 50 states, not 57 as Obama stated. She also knows President Clinton from President Bush. Obama does not. She does not see fallen (dead) people in her audience. She has as much experience and definitely more credibility than Obama. Bet her home was not purchased with the help of a very guilty criminal. Obama’s criticism is outright stupid and childish. I will never vote for Obama.

I got a call from a good democrat friend and he said that he is really worried for his party after McCain announced Palin and that many in the party are concerned about the direction the campaign has gone in the last 10 days. Did I just hear the toilet flush?

Debra: “Gov. Palin has more in her resume than boy wonder does since he’s only worked 143 days in the Senate and as “community organizer” got some asbestos removed!”
Ignoring his time in the Illinois Senate, during which he cast about 4000 votes, is a big enough omission to brand your comment a blatant lie. And yes, in his time in Illinois he did author and get signed into law some good ideas (such as the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in serious crimes).
Why can’t you talk about Governor Palin’s positive accomplishments? Why is it always making stuff up against Senator Obama?

McCain has obviously LOST IT COMPLETELY.
A 73 year old man puts a PTA mom a heartbeat away from the presidency…with two wars, Al Queda, Russia, North Korea, and Iran waiting in the wings?
No thanks. I’ll takt the two INTELLIGENT GUYS.

maryintampa: do you hear yourself. you are voting on egos and ages… what is wrong with you people. this is about all the issues effecting and destroying our Nation… not age, not egos…. it is about our survival as a great nation under God. it is about your future, your children’s future. do not just vote because this man is old, he has a woman VP, or he is black… vote on the policies, vote to make this nation strong again.

If McCain passed away during the early months of his presidency…
Can you imagine Sarah Palin debating with world leaders?
Handling the Iraqi war?
Handling the war in Afganistan?
The Iran and Israel crisis?
The Georgia and Russian conflict?
McCain just lost the independent vote.

Debra: if that was to happen (God forbid) Biden is much more experienced then if McCain dropped dead.
You want horrible associations how about the Keating Five…..

McCain just lost the independent vote.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 29, 2008 2:37:20 PM
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Oh nay nay I am independent! He just gained my vote.
The undemocratic sad they did not need my vote!

D’Obama: “You can’t say anything negative about Palin without hurting the man at the top of your ticket.”
And that comment in a nutshell describes the entire Republican campaigning mindset. Here’s a shocking idea: Senator Obama supporters like saying what is good about their candidate – past experience writing law in Illinois (requiring videotaping of interrogations and confessions), constitutional scholar (offered a tenured position), selection of respected advisers (like Warren Buffet), and for the policy wonks we’re happy to debate the detailed position papers he has posted on his site (OK, we might want to go negative against McCain’s policy papers, but he just doesn’t have anywhere near the detailed, hard data on his plans as Obama’s website).
But the Republican mindset? “Ha ha, you can’t throw mud at our VP pick’s lack of experience!!!1!11!”

Mary,
Palin doesn’t know what the job of Vice President even entails.
When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin realized that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she simply replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.[16][39] The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close the dairy.[39] The new board approved milk price increases offered by the dairy in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices.[40] In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.
Kristan Cole is a real estate agent from the same small town where Palin was mayor.
Cronyism….its the Republican way.

HP…. I remember distinctly… McCain had your vote a while back.
Don’t play like Palin was the dealmaker for you.

If Hillary’s supporters can be persuaded that the selection of Palin makes the Republican ticket palatable, then they obviously haven’t taken the time to compare their policy differences.

Lay out the achievements of Obama and Palin and we’ll find that Obama has the experience of failures and Palin has that of successes. The curious question is, why does the Obama campaign take the bait?

Face it, this was a brilliant stroke by McCain. He’s going to please his base and the evangelicals – who elected Reagon, Bush, Bush. He knows he’ll get 10 – 12% of Hillary’s angriest supporters, plus many Independent women. This was the smartest move he could have made. Much smarter than Obama passing over Hillary in favor of the gaffe master who has already suggested he’s at the wrong end of the ticket . .. . “If I had your hair I’d be president, you know what I mean? I wouldn’t be screwing around with this job.” Gee, I thought it would take weeks before Biden made an ### of himself, not two days.

I think the Mormons should feel offended that McCain didn’t pick Romney.
The Jews should be offended he didn’t pick Lieberman.
Pennsylvanians should feel sleighted that he didn’t pick Ridge.
And mealy-mouthed wimps should be outraged that he didn’t pick Pawlenty.
If McCain were a Democrat… you know that’s what kind of rumors the MSM would be floating right now. As it is, you have Ron Paul supporters hosting an alternative convention right in the Twin Cities… but nobody is talking about it because the bosses know where their bread is buttered… and McCain is the best shot they have at keeping their millionare tax-breaks.

To the DNC, Pelosi, Dean ,Obama–Thanks, but no thanks to your bridge to nowhere.
My favorite line from Palin’s speech today(she addressed it to Congress).
What a tough, unique, and inspiring woman McCain has chosen. And what a bold choice he made.
She’s the small-town outdoorsman,and hunter that Hillary wanted to be and was to some extent.
She’s no Hillary–but she will inspire millions of women and little girls. Who knows what Palin’s legacy will be.
McCain/Palin08 Hillary2012

“Obama talks about “broken” Washington. So what does he do to fix it? Chooses a 30 year DC insider as his VP.”

i just heard palin on cnn. she is brilliant, eloquent, and hard hitting.
i find it absolutely hysterical reading the posts of hillary haters/obama supporters who during the primaries spewed sexist hatred toward hillary and her supporters like myself. now they want hillary to take on palen-and save them again, like she did the convention.
now the same sexist posters (obama supporters) democrats, are spewing the same sexist hatred toward palen. and hillary is the best woman ever according to them?
and hey you convinced us that experience does not matter…
so you guys are saying its ok for 95% of african americans to support obama but it is ‘silly’ for women to support a woman?

McCain’s opportunistic choice shows how out of touch and sexist the REPUBLICAN party is. Women are not interchangeable. People supported Hillary because they thought she had experience and based on policy issues. It’s an insult to women that they think ANY woman would do.
McCain has shown he doesn’t care about the security of America. A one and a half year serving governor with ZERO foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from a 72 year old man?
No thanks.

Can you imagine Palin in a debate with Biden talking about foreign policy?
McCain may have rallied his base but he just lose the independent vote.

“Obama talks about “broken” Washington. So what does he do to fix it? Chooses a 30 year DC insider as his VP.”
A 30 year insider who has fought for families and the middle class.
He humiliated Bork and saved us from having a fascist on the Supreme Court.
He brought about the Family & Medical Leave Act.
He brought about the College Access Act.
He fought for the violence against women Act
His crime bill was the huge factor (along with a good economy) in crime reduction in th 90′s. Rudy beat up the black people police policy was shown to be more fascist then effective.
He has also created private/public partnerships to get more computer rooms and internet access to schools.
“McCain talks about “broken” Washington.
So what does he do to fix it?”
I don’t know. He’s been there for 30 years, what has he fixed in Washington?
And what is this I hear about his reputation for being a hot head?

geevill,
For all her experience she was mayor of a small town and governor for what, 2 years? Give me a break. The problem I have political parties is all the garbage to feed you. Call it what is….McCain made the choice purely for political reasons and because Palin is ready vice president and possibly president….Hell, I know nothing about her but don’t foster garbage on the public that this woman is such a great choice and that she is qualified….The same thing happened with the first Bush chose that twerp Dan Quayle simply because he was fresh face…that turned out well didn’t it

hey andrew:
“Hey, Curious if there are any non-white folks who are McCain supporters”
Tht’s kind of funny; The party of Lincoln is the one which freed the slaves.
Yet you imply that none of those freedmen or women would be members of the party which freed them!
Wow!
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All I see when I look at this ticket is-
McPain

Ryan:
Check out the investigation…sounds like the cop deserved to be canned…

Did Obama give a speech last night?

Oh,
Forget about experience. Talk about judgement.Obama chose an experienced senator in Joe Biden….McCain chose a in-experienced Governor from a sparsely populated state….Hmmm….I think the edge goes to Obama..

In a Newsweek interview, Palin said she did not like Hillary’s “whining”, LOL!
“She does herself a disservice to even mention it really. You’ve got to plow through that. You’ve got to know what you’re getting into.”
Take that Pooma’s even Sarah Palin thought Hillary’s whining was too much!!

“Can you imagine Palin in a debate with Biden talking about foreign policy”
Do you remember the debate between Cheney and Edwards? Me neither.
****************************
And whose VP right now?
Fact is. If McCain chosen Romney the Dems would’ve used Romney’s word against McCain. But, Romney could stand his own in a debate against Biden and also have credibility.
Palin won’t stand a chance against Biden.
I know this is pandering for the womens vote. But women voted for Hillary because she was the first women WITH credibility to run for office.
All these so call Hillary supporters on here are really Republicans posing as Democrats.
McCain just handed Obama the election.

“I know this is pandering for the womens vote. But women voted for Hillary because she was the first women WITH credibility to run for office.”
That’s nice of you to admit that after the months of bashing that she took from you and yours.

In choosing Sarah Palin, McCain showed a willingness to make a bold move. In choosing Biden, Obama showed us a willingness to cut off his nose to spite his face.

“Do you remember the debate between Cheney and Edwards? Me neither.”
That’s because right wingers need political amnesia to be able to rationalize their current position.
The VP debate had Cheney pulling off the kindly grandfather routine while simply blowing Edwards off the stage with gravitas when Edwards refused to attack him.
That debate was the clear win for the Bush campaign when the other debates provided at best muddled draws for them.

McCain has rightly noted that eventually the election will be about CHANGE! That’s a very large tide and hard to ignore.
Question is WHAT KIND OF CHANGE? Change back to the Carter days, as Obama promises, or a Change for the future.
Clearly Palin is a great choice. A woman who has the guts to confront her own party, a woman who’s run government even if for a short time, a great family story, down to earth, small town middle class values. What’s not to like??
Obama’s “Annie Oakley” comment is going to bite him in the ### – he’s met the modern day ANNIE OAKLEY.
McCain 08
Hillary 12

Obama probably didn’t even know Alaska is one of the 57 states.

I would probably love Palin as a person. But no thanks, not as my vice president. I might not like Hillary that much as a person, but she can get the job done.

Palin has a great record, Obama has rhetoric. Great choice in Gov. Palin.

“I might not like Hillary that much as a person, but she can get the job done.”
Once again, Hillary is not on any ticket.

Joe Biden announced the date his son was deploying to Iraq.

Hey you PUMAS!
Palin called Hillary a Whiner!
Gee, those republicans sure do love that word!
Not only are we middle-class whiners to them, but now so is Hillary!

gracie
the media announced Bidens son and only the year

As a woman, I am so glad McCain picked a woman. We need a woman in the White House. It doesn’t really matter who they are, or if they’re capable of the country’s top job. We need a woman. So McCain has really done the best thing. Because, no matter what happens to our country, at least we’ll have a woman in the White House.

Wolfson is trying so hard to stay in the news it is pitiful how he comes up with these posts that have no bearing on reality. Palin in no Hillary.

She’s a potted plant. Made
no impression at all at the
Republican VP announcement
event.

run dean run! run pelosi run! shame on you dean! shame on you pelosi! you made a mockery out of our democracy when you decided to supress the democratic vote. you tried to suppress the vote on the field and you failed and then you just stopped it with your power!
we need no commies here. run pelosi run! run dean run!
obama bama has to respond to one question: why WHY did you say no to hillary?? why WHY did say no to millions of votes you could have won just by picking hillary?
why??
answer: because this is about OBAMA not about our country!

: Elite Liberal = crap?
the end of obamas story.. what a pitty..hey it was nice while it lasted..

I am a Hillary supporter and have met with MANY others, and have YET to run across one that said that she will just run to McCain JUST BECAUSE HE PICKED A WOMAN.
Women are not that stupid.

women will vote for mccain for 2 reasons:
1. obama (and his supporters) have insulted hillary, bill and the 18million people who voted for them over and over and over..even now!!
2. having a woman as VP is a HISTORICAL moment in our country – and yes, there are more women than african americans in this country..
make no mistake about it, having a woman as VP WILL help the cause of ALL American women!
obama has had his historical moment.. now he can go in peace..

Describing human behavior is not lying.

“Maybe they hired the same team that is constantly scrubbing Barry and TUCC’s websites.”
Mack,
I expect the campaigns to do that on their own website.
Hell McCain has scrubbed embarassing stuff from his website a dozen or so times everything from his Alabama Chair who was later outed as gay to his own press release calling himself a political celebrity to a press release calling for even more troops to Iraq (post surge).
Candidates should be allowed to control their own image on their own website (and deal with the criticism that could come from a heavily scrubbed website)

: Elite Liberal
hope you are right and obama still wins this.. but..
you have to admit he made such an idiotic choice in dissing hillary and picking joe the fossil brings nothing as vp..

women’s rights = women’s history in this case. it’s naive to think that a woman VP will not push for women’s rights.. naive.. (to put it nicely..)

Debra, yeah, look at those forceful, intelligent speakers leading up to McCain: Bush. Cheney. Giuliani (my personal favorite with his his concurrent sanctimony and speech impediment). Lieberman. And of course, McCain, the epitome of a dull, average speaker. Do you really think the democrats want to deflect attention from that bore-fest?

Dems should be scared….McCain the Maverick is Republican “lite” and now with Palin to shore up his conservative base and draw all the unhapppy Hillary supporters, many of them men too…this is looking good.
GROWN UPS FOR McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!

Average Joe, did you watch the video and Obama’s speech? I don’t see how anyone who saw that would say Obama thinks of himself. If you haven’t seen them, I would strongly urge you to do so. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised.

Watch the Obama video and speech with an open mind. He absolutely cares about working people (like the family he grew up in) and empathizes with them in a way no elected president in memory has done.

Debra — McCain/Biden? An Obamanian slip?

BO did not pick Hillary because
she is
divisive…
polarizing…
a sour grapes personality…
does not play by the rules…
does not honor legal contracts…
wanted FL, MI delegates for herself…
both primaries were not only flawed
but violated DNC rules…
she still goes around saying she
won the popular vote…
her husband would have been a
major nuisance for the BO
administration…

: Elite Liberal
you should do som readin yourself..
hillary’s official word is that she wanted to be vp!
and she was the ONLY choice – not because she was smart, not because she was in congress that many years.. but because she EARNED it!! through hard work and may i add.. hard cash too!
what obama did is – and i feel pain to say this – just gross! disregard of everything that he is talking about:
people (18million of them), fairness (hillary EARNED the 2nd place!), you name it.
face it: obama did it because he did not want the clintons. period. that was his only rational. obama was affriad that they (the clintons) would have looked bigger than him..
it was all about him.. obama..
make no mistake about it.

I don’t know much about Palin exept what I have heard and seen today. But,
with that info, I would say she has her priorities mixed up. Any woman who has just given birth to a special needs baby would have put that baby’s interest above her own ambitions. The energy and time committment to this child , I think she must be clueless about. As grandmother of a special needs child, I know the needs are just incredible and can’t imagine why a mother would after bringing this chjild into this world, think that I could run a country and still give this child all that it is entitled to receive. I especially would not trust McCain to have a clue of the situation as he voted against funding the autism bill.

Average Joe, the bottom line is this: Will the country be better off with Obama, who has a long history of fighting with success for average people and who WILL make a clean break from Bush’s failures, or with McCain, who has said that he agrees with most of what Bush has done and doesn’t intend to change much (and who nearly everyone recognizes is out of touch with working families). The answer is obvious: Obama is the far superior candidate. I think if Hillary supporters go for McCain out of spite (which I think very few will do), they will regret it.

: Elite Liberal
sorry but you are saying is not true.. unforunately.. all we know about obama is that he talks and talks..
when it comes to deeds, he has been a major disappointment after major disappointment..
he dissed the voters in MI and FL for one purpose only: to stop them from voting for THEIR candidates (in the end, the party people and not THE ‘people’ of FL and MI made the decision!), he dissed hillary but doing everything in his power to stop the delegates from voting fairly at the convention!
he dissed 18 million voters by not selecting hillary as his running mate.
obama has been a major fake.. sorry, but i don’t trust him anymore.
i don’t like mccain but i like what he actually did picking a woman as his running mate.
i think that is very risky for him but he did it because he sees millions of people who have been dissed by obama..

Nicholas,
Did you say say:
“PALIN=EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE…….
McCAIN/PALIN ’08……
TICKET ROCKS………
”
Obviously you’re out of touch like your candidate McCain.Wait till November.

btw, i just love palin’s speach:
very positive, no attacks, looking to the future and very directly telling women that those 18 millions votes do COUNT now!
it was an extraordinary debut and.. did mention she looks good on TV :)

Aw; that is the first thing that came to my mind too! Any baby. Special needs or not. I couldn’t, but men do it all the time, I guess this is where Daddy needs to step up.

well.. if that is the price we as a nation need to pay to actually recognize women as having the same right in this country.. i’ll take that fight..
yes, she went back to work days after giving birth because this country doesn’t recognize what mothers do for the country! that has got to change!!
we must recognize women as they are – physically and with everything that god has given them on this earth.
we as a society must change the man oriented view of life. there is the man and then there is the woman. very differnt needs, very different biologies..
yet, this society forces women to behave like men..
where is the AA minority when you need them to fight for the right thing and not for their ‘only’ thing..
this woman must change the conversation in this country – we need a woman up there, i don’t know what the price is that we have to pay for it. but we must have a woman up there as soon as possible.

Dear aw,
Your post “Any woman who has just given birth to a special needs baby would have put that baby’s interest above her own ambitions…” just SCREAMS of sexism!
She has a special needs child, and I am certain she has the means, and the support system around her to make certain that all her children are well cared for. Do you really think her baby is not getting exceptional care simply because she is not the one providing it 24-7? You yourself are a grandmother of such a child. With your rational, why isn’t your daughter staying home and caring for her kid?
If she was a male VP candidate with a special needs child, would you have even thought it an issue?
Let’s remember, Senator Biden chose to take his position as Senator shortly after the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. He had two young sons, now motherless. He reached out and made sure his boys were cared for, and NO ONE made a big stink about it as being a negative that he left his boys every day to go to work!

This is a great pick by McCain! My wife and I are going to vote Republican for the first time EVER! This is due to The DNC & Obama camp Bad Treatment of Hillary & Bill. The Clintons have made this party Great and I will not support the People or Party officials that Spit in the FACE of the GOOD Democrats. McCain-Palin here we come!
Also while at work today, I just had a 45 year old professional women with an Ivy League PhD who is a LIFELONG democrat say to me, “I kind of like her.”
HAH PROOF THAT OBAMA & THE DNC PISSED OFF ALOT OF DEMOCRATS!
IM SURE THERE ARE MORE OUT THERE TOO!!!!!!
GO MCCAIN-PALIN!!!!!!!!!
I was going to vote for Obama until he excluded Hillary! Hahahahahahahahahahahah
Take that Howard Dean & all you idiots at the DNC!

Sarah Palin at least has experience running a government office. None of the other candidates in this race has that kind of experience. Way to go.
McCain/Palin 2008

McCain is in over his head
for the demands of the job.
He is just going through the
motions of running for POTUS.
When he picked Palin, it wasn’t
done in a senior moment. He wants
out. She guarantees his defeat.
McCain may be a lot older, but
her views on social and women’s
issues are far more antiquated
than his.

I’m interested in hearing more about how she left the budget of Wasilla in shambles when she left her post as mayor. She has no savy whatsoever and a totally inadequate education. Clearly, she likes to crawl off to the holes of the world and be “in charge” so she can abuse her power in petty local squabbles. The national press is going to make a chew-toy out of her.

It’s a gimmick, folks! John McCain is willing to take a reckless risk with our future just to get elected …. or maybe to get back at the Reps who wouldn’t let him have Joe Lieberman. He met the woman ONE time before offering her the job, so even HE doesn’t know if she’s qualified or if she’s someone he can get along with. — This selection is an insult to all women (thinking we’d vote for an anti-choice, inexperienced person who doesn’t believe in climate change, wants to drill in ANWAR and kills animals from helicopters … just because she’s a woman). It’s also an insult to the many well-qualified Republicans, both men and women, who for some reason weren’t “good enough” for McCain. I seriously think he’s losing it. — Even if you believe Obama is as inexperienced, there are 19 million Americans who think he’s just fine. The only vote of confidence she’s won is from one old man with a penchant for beauty queens (first wife, Cindy and now Gov. Palin). — Look for some of the interviews as recently as last month, even she was laughing at the idea of being VP!!!

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There is already something about her sister and brother-in-law. She came into the election with dirt.
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Actually, that is not corruption. Corruption is Obama and the people he associates with. That is all you can got on her?? Knowing her background, I am sure she had a good reason to fire the loser, Obama has miles of skeletions in his closet.

Palin is the only candidate in this election with experience actually running a government office. At least she has experience making a budget and going toe to toe with corruption and big oil companies. She went to work everyday making decisions.
How many votes did the “Senators” actually cast during there terms in office. I’m sure it didn’t amount to someone going to work daily.

It’s a cliché that a presidential candidate’s choice of a running mate is the first clue what kind of president she or he will be. Most of the time this really isn’t so. Not this time. John McCain’s choice of Governor Palin tells us quite bit. And frankly, it ought to scare the hell out of everybody.
First, it shows that Senator McCain has no core principles. None. Here’s a man who’s been running for President the last two years solely because of alleged superior credentials in foreign policy and national security. He used this argument not just against Senator Obama, but also against his rivals for the Republican nomination, Governors Huckabee and Romney and Mayor Giuliani, men with vastly more executive experience than he has. Over and over, he claimed that he’d make a better president because of years of service on congressional defense and foreign policy committees. A service, however, which never included actually formulating, deciding or executing policy. So who gets his first major appointment? A young governor with no experience in this area—or any of national issue—at all. By comparison, Senator Obama who has a degree in international relations from Columbia University, who has worked on important issues such as nuclear non-proliferation in the Senate, and has assembled a formidable team of foreign policy advisors, looks quite ready to start managing foreign policy from Day 1. And his Vice-President would have the experience, knowledge and character to tell him when he’s wrong. Would Vice-President Palin have that ability? Maybe, but I wouldn’t bet the house on that.
Second, what does this tell us about Senator McCain’s management style? He met Governor Palin once, for fifteen minutes at National Governors Association meeting, talked to her for five minutes on the phone, and then picks her for the second most important job in country. I’ve spent way more time selecting a junior member of my staff. Would you hire a guy as a CEO who makes decisions like that? Maybe if he was a genius with superb instincts, but if there’s any evidence that Senator McCain is such a leader, it’s hard to detect. Consider:
Until Joe Lieberman corrected him, he repeatedly stated that Iran was training Al Qaeda. In fact, Al Qaeda in Iraq slaughtered thousand of Iraqi Shiite Muslims. Iran is a Shiite Muslim country with intimate ties to Iraqi Shiite community. But of course, Senator McCain doesn’t know there’s difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, an elementary fact in Islamic politics for the past 1400 years. And what do we make of someone who thinks Czechoslovakia still exists or that Pakistan and Iraq share a common border?
Finally, let’s take a look at the politics of this decision. If Senator McCain wanted to select a woman as a running mate, he had plenty of choices. There were his economic advisors Carly Fiorina or Meg Whitman. There was Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut, Governor Linda Lingle of Hawaii, or former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. He could have picked Senators Collins or Snow of Maine, Liddy Dole, twice a cabinet secretary to boot, or Texas’s Kay Bailey Hutchison. So why did he decide on Governor Palin? Could it be because she has the strongest support among ardent social conservatives? That’s fine if you agree with hard line positions on abortion, gay rights and other contentious social issues. But if you’re a moderate then it’s pretty plain that Senator McCain doesn’t give a fig for your views or concerns.
So what can we expect from a President McCain based on this decision? A president who isn’t serious about governing, a president who with no rational system of decision making, a president with chronic confusion about basic facts in his area of claimed expertise, and a president who would do nothing to heal the country’s deep political wounds. I think we’ve seen this movie before.

By comparison, Senator Obama who has a degree in international relations from Columbia University, who has worked on important issues such as nuclear non-proliferation in the Senate, and has assembled a formidable team of foreign policy advisors…
When Russia invaded Georgia BHO’s first call was to say, tsk, tsk, both of you should stop fighting.
When Russia continued, BHO stated we needed to go to the UN Security Council to pass a resolution to get Russia to stop.
BHO didn’t know Russia SITS on the Security Council. BHO didn’t know Russia has always had VETO power over any resolution. This is UN 101 that high schoolers know!!!
After 72 hours BHO started mimicking JM’s positions and has continued ever since.
Oh, but BHO’s campaign did take credit for Russia stopping their attack because “they listened to BHO”.
What a joke!!

McCain/Palin2008: I see a lot of jealousy against this woman maybe what she accomplished they never will. Obama is no accomplishment for graduating from Harvard. His main thoughts were to make history like MLK. He was desperate to do that and wanted to draw crowds like MLK. He practiced his speeches and sometimes if you listen to him on the platform he trys to act like him. That last convention speech was taken from a speech of MLK. He just added a few words of his own. And if I am correct Biden was in trouble one time because of his mouth. And he can be very bold. But however, I think Palin can match him or Obama head to toe. McCain already has the christian voters. I read it on the internet and if I am correct again women voters will get to know her and like her. Hillary lost because of Obama, Nancy and Dean. The swindled her out of delegates, made deals with the superdelegates because Nancy did not want Hillary to become president. She wants to be the woman in power. But if McCain wins, Palin will be higher up than her.

Dave in lv: A degree is one thing, its knowing how to use it and Obama didn’t use it. He was too busy with as an attorney for a crook like Rezko who was making crooked deals and the reason Rezko bought that house for Obama is because Obama helped him cover his tracks. Obama is an underhanded crook himself. The reason he picked Biden is because Hillary was smarter than him and would outshine him in the white house. Obama needed someone with a big mouth but they both met their match with Palin. She will go head to head with them. She is a determined women.

Robin Terry: You are correct. And I am willing to bet all Senator’s have missed days in the senate maybe not as much as Obama with his 130 days or over. I am willing to bet she would have made a good senator prior to being selected VP. And Obama was not elected nominee it was by acclamation because Nancy didn’t want all of Hillary’s delegates counted and Hillary should have told Nancy this is the way I want it, all my delegates counted and a roll call which she cancelled. Obama would never had done that for her. All of Hillary’s women voters should vote for McCain/Palin to give Nancy Pelosi a good slap in the face.

I am so sick of the media coverage of this election. I thought the United States had more magazines and major news stations that truly wanted to give voters all of the information.
The media is saturated with coverage of Obama. Anyone with a brain can see how one sided this election coverage has been this year.
I hope the public has enough foresight to research all of the candidates and make an informed decision. Watch Fox News as well as CNN, NBC or ABC. Get online and find out the real public records yourself. Look at the votes and proposals that have been made by all the Senators. Find out more about the official record of Sahah Palin and not just what the rags want you think.
Wise up America. We are being treated like mushrooms. The majority of the media is trying to keep us in the dark and feed us ****. Don’t be brain washed.