People Magazine Snags McCain/Palin First Interview

This isn’t my preferred VP pick, but it’s a good pick nonetheless. A young, energetic straight talker with a hard work ethic and strong family values. She launched her career in small town America while Obama launched his in the living room of a domestic terrorist. I can live with that.
The Obama camp has nothing to stand on here. They can’t argue about lack of experience, they can’t argue about international issues because they lack this as well. Thi spick energizes the conservative base and puts the Obama camp on the defensive. Oh I can’t want to hear what Biden says when he’s off prompter.

I wish my legislature only met 90 days a year.
As for a smaller constituency…. maybe it helps you get to know the people better.

Jake, you’re just jealous that MacCain picked a good VP candidate. Someone who’s actually worked toward reform.
Meanwhile Biden’s been in Washington for 35 years, has close ties to the failed credit industry and has surrounded himself with lobbyists (including his son!)
The “Change” ticket managed to look both inexperienced and part of the good ‘ol boys network of Washington at the same time. Hilarious.

This is obviously SELFISH choice just to win the WH. He just put the country at greater risk, How will she run the country in case of big crisis with Iran, Russia if something happen to Mccain. oooh risky, think about it!

There’s a lot more to being the mother of a special needs child than a breast pump. I hope her husband is around a lot to fill in the gaps.

The time has REALLY come for the press to begin to cover what has long been whispered about John McCain. That he is not emotionally suited to be President. His temper and rash actions are well known. And this choice, considering his age and medical history are further evidence of this. Voters have every right to question if Barack Obama is experienced enough to be President. He, however, was chosen as the nominee by voters. Gov. Pallin was chosen by a 72 year old cancer survivor to be the next in line. Show me the sound judgment in that.

get over it obamabots. hillarys gone now so you dont need to bash others. its politics and this is how you play the game to win. your candidate isnt a saint, so keep your bad thoughts to yourself if you cant take the heat.

Good choice, McCain.
I Love Gov. Palin.
She is no nonsense, in-touch with people, and capable.

The Republicans are missing the point here. Obama doesn’t NEED to attack Palin’s lack of experience (even though her resume is thinner than his own). The very fact that McCain PICKED HER after spending months denigrating Obama’s lack of experience shows POOR JUDGMENT on McCain’s part, undermines all his past arguments against Obama and makes McCain seem like a giant hypocrite.

The republicans have me laughing all day..They think women are stupid. This women is not able to be run this country or be the vice president. Also how selfish a special needs child…breast feeding and running all over the United States…who do they think they are kidding..it is the Republicans running scared…thanks for your support..

“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.”
I am out! This was just to much to take . I do not trust Mc Cain any longer his pick was very selfish, not in the Countries best interest. If I wanted to vote for a woman, Hillary was there. Gender is not the issue never was do you not understand that MC Cain!! Oh you make me so upset. Playing games with our Countries welfare. You pick a female any ole female just so she can get female votes. It does not work that way. We are smarter than you think Mr. Man we do not just vote for gender………. Your not ready either to run this Country. I am finished with this election. It is competence that we look for in a Vice President not just a woman. Its a Horror Show! If she was to be President. You do not know what you have just done but will find out veryyyyyy soon.

SARAH PALIN????
A “green horn” governor of one of the least populous states for less than 2 years, with NO foreign policy experience??
A heartbeat away from the presidency???
When McBush’s heart might stop at any time??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!
John McCain has just shown he has NO JUDGMENT AT ALL!!!!!
Between Palin, Obama’s fantastic speech last night and hurricane Gustov sucking all the Oxygen out of the Republican convention and reminding everyone of the failure of Katrina, it’s over for the evil doers….
GAME OVER REPUBLICANS!!!!
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alaska? Where is her birth certificate? Is she even a US citizen?

SARAH PALIN??
Can you imagine this woman standing up there next to Joe Biden at the VP debate? Biden will shred her on foreign policy and everything else. It will at best be an embarrassment for her and the Republicans!
This “green horn” would truly be just a “heartbeat” away from being president and the American people won’t stand for it. Very, very bad judgment on John McSenile’s part!
Say hello to President OBAMA!!!!!

Go Governor Palin! I am so jazzed!!! I’m more excited about her as President then Senator Obama as President!
She has more executive experience then all of the others combined!
Senator Obama has lost… there is no way he can catch this show!!! Not even close! Senator Clinton supporters are switching over in droves!
Come on! Wasn’t Democrats supposed to be the leader in bringing women on board? What happened? Why didn’t Senator Clinton get picked as a VP? What happened Democrats? The Republicans beat you to the punch?
This will be a landslide win! Just watch! Hey, no women politician has moved me like this one! This is great!!!

Using her power to get rid of her ex brother in law, to fire him from his job?
Yep, this is a real game changer.

Looks like the Daily Kos kids have gotten their talking points….
This must really have them rattled. Heh.
And….anyone’s heart can stop at anytime.
RIP Tim Russert. I sure am missing him this week.

Im proud of our country now that we will have black leadership, black govenment,black power in the White House, and the whites, the spanish and indians will not count any more.

Davis – Try again. The only people talking bad about her is Obama Supporters and they don’t count.
The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, are supporting their female candidate.
Obama has lost. You might as well start playing “Taps.”
PUMA!

McCain just undermined his own argument. Ole pappy’s judgment just went out the window.
He needs a woman to win? Can’t do it on his own merit? Can’t do it on the issues? This is clearly exploitation of women.
Republicans are STILL sad.

Let’s face it: the man is senile, and his choice proves it.

Funny people think that nominating Palin for the 2nd spot is playing Russian Roulette, yet they have no problem daydreaming about the fairy tale candidate as the CIC of the US.

I refuse to vote for a woman just because she is a female. This is the same mentality that we accused the blacks of. I can not stand it when women just blindly support based on gender. You people don’t know this woman and 90% of you never even heard of her, yet you support “her”. What is “her”, who is “her”? One speech and you people are doing the exact same thing you accuse of Obama supporters………sipping kool-aid, but what makes this worse is that you are doing it after only a few hours. PATHETIC.

Michelle Obama appeared jealous of Hillary Clinton and now she has Sarah Palin to be jealous of. Poor, poor Michelle. No wonder she feels so sorry for herself and is angry. She is actually outwitted by other women.
And now we have a contest between a war hero and a complete zero. Oh, did I also say a socialist with big ideas, pretty speeches and the need for grandiose attention. What an election.

I hope Palin won’t make racist comments about other cultures like Biden did when talking about Indians in Delaware.

It’s a GOOD day for Republicans in every way.
It energizies the base, gives an attractive and youthface face for Repulicans, and emphasizes that we have the true mavericks (meaning real reformers) on our ticket.
And judging for the hysteria on the Left we hit a grandslam right out of the park.
McCain/Palin ’08..an historic run and a winning team.
Gotta love it!

Foreign policy was extremely important, until today.

Nothing like googling and we have done it, just like we did Obama. That’s why we are not voting for him.
Palin is wayyyyy more qualified than Obama and she has the record to prove it.
BTW, where is Obama’s senatorial records, educational records, medical records and that elusive birth certificate? The REAL birth certificate, that is.
Shouldn’t you have checked those things out before blindly choosing Obama as your candidate of choice?
PUMA!

This is the best the Republican party has to offer the nation? This is supposed to reassure the nation that GOP can govern and protect this nation?
The party of Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Huckabee or (just to mention some leading Republican women) Kay Baily Hutchinson, Olympia Snowe, and Elizabeth Dole.
McCain chooses the Governor of a state that, unlike the rest of the country, is NOT confronted with the energy crisis that is crippling our economy. Sure, she gave around $1,000 in refunds back to the citizens of Alaska – the tax base in Alaska IS the price of oil. The more the price of oil goes up, the more Alaskan citizens benefit. She has experience? This is exactly the WRONG experience the rest of the country needs. The citizens of Ohio, Michigan, Pensylvania do not get windfall tax cuts when the price of oil goes up – the pay higher heating costs.

Bless You, Davis -
I have been TV channel surfing all day. Even Chrissy Matthews sounds respectful when talking about Palin. Who knew????
I also have been doing the same with talk radio. Yup, the news have been mostly good about Palin.
As far as McCain dying (!!!???), I am sure he has good doctors. They most likely can keep him on life support indefinitely. ROFLMAO!!!
PUMA!

The Presidency is an Executive Office, not a legislative one. In her two terms as mayor and her 20 months of service as the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has far more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined. She also, unlike Obama, has a list of several accomplishments in her time as Mayor. Obama can’t run on his accomplishments because he simply does not have any.
I also find it hilarious that Obama supporters here are blasting Palin for her lack of experience and what a danger that could be if she had to step into the Presidency… You guys are supporting Barack Obama, who spinelessly switched his vote over 100 times in the Illinois State Legislator, often votes “Present” on big issues, and has spent exactly 143 days present as a United States Senator – far less than that when he started running for President a year after taking office.
And Obama is on TOP of the ticket, and will have to take office with less experience than Palin, who would almost certainly have her time as VP to train for that office. Also, she DOES have Executive experience already. So experience is a big deal for the VP pick, but not for the President? Are you guys nuts or just hopelessly partisan?

Sarah have a short neck,so she will be an extraordinary good VP.

McCain, ‘I think that Sarah appeals to a lot of voters.’ He doesn’t care about who could help him govern or who would be a worthy successor to the presidency, only wooing votes away from women. This is a sad state of affairs. To think that Hillary’s efforts are being so baldly mocked hurts. No way, no how, no McCain.

Laugh at hockey moms at your own peril. You obviously don’t know us well. Palin rocks! Go McCain-Palin. I am thrilled at McCain’s choice.

McCain might have done better picking Brittany Spears. lol

To the Clinton supporter – Governor is a much better training ground for President than Senator. They are both executive offices, where Senator is legislative. This is why it’s been basically exclusively Governors elected President for the last forty years.
And Clinton rode to her position on her husband’s coat-tails. She didn’t ascend to a position of national prominence on her own. Palin become governor of a state ON HER OWN.
Her resume is much “thicker” than Obama’s, who has only spent 143 days present as a Senator and has zero executive experience. Palin has been a two term mayor and now a Governor, and has accomplished things you can actually point to, such as corruption and ethics reform, unlike Obama, who has absolutely no accomplishments to point to. This is why you didn’t hear people talk about Obama’s accomplishments at the convention – he just doesn’t have any!

Yes, she needs to become a community organizer, do some cocain, (how did he get into Harvard when he was on drugs at columbia, from his own book?) go to a black liberation church, help rezco and ayers 8 years in the state senate and run for US senate win and immediatly run for president…

Just for the record – Palin has been under investigation for misuse of her position and power, has cut funding to important programs, and has implemented ideas that may or may not be successful. She has not been in office long enough for anyone to know. As a governor, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt – but as a Vice Presidential nominee!!! – you have got to be kidding!!

For the record, The Rezko deal and the Williams Ayres plot will be investigated in full force in the falls. Palin’s limited experience ? I wish the libs don’t go there since Moses gets NONE. The libs are in panic mode. Watch out for their dirty plays.

How is it possible to balance the enormous needs of a Down Syndrome infant, who must have all sorts of therapy and attention in order to reach his potential, with the demands of a vice-presidential campaign? As the mother of a child who had a special needs baby, it is flabbergasting to me that a woman who makes such a big deal about her “family values” would take that baby on the road with her and act like the biggest issue is 3 a.m. feedings!! Not to mention her other kids’ needs. I know several women who have special needs babies, and ALL of them left their jobs in order to devote themselves to helping their children, who need extra attention and lots of therapy. What sort of attention could Sarah Palin possibly give her baby? It’s not enough to congratulate yourself for having a Down Syndrome baby. Now, it is incumbent on her to do everything she can to help that baby learn, and I for one don’t think it’s possible to do that and be vice-president of the United States. That baby needs her more than we do.

Awfully self-righteous, josh…

This woman Palin is greedy and overly ambitious. She’s willing to sacrifice the health of her newborn child, who needs special care beyond even most mothers, in order to fulfill her political ambitions to the White House. She chose to bring a child into the world, why did she have to run for v.p. now? Couldn’t she have waited until her child was old enough to not require 24/7 attention?
Shameful.

This will a fight to the finishing line … an election that the DEMS should be winnig hands down if Obama had picked Hillary …
…but ego, sexism was in the way of Obama camp …
…this is a turning point for the GE..
Go McCain ~ Country First
Go Palin ~ People First

Historically Qualified!
Sarah Palin may ‘Only have been a Governor’. Let us remember that in recent history ‘Only being a Governor’ seems to have been enough Executive Experience to qualify for the Executive Office for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan.

Wow. Based on the sexist comments attacking Palin, no wonder Hillary didn’t get the Dem nomination. Placing the “good old boy” behind their affirmative action candidate spoke VOLUMES to me. Even Jimmy Carter called him, a “black boy,” not a black man??? I am so excited about Sarah!! She lives like the rest of us middle class moms where husbands help out and support their wives and are active in their children’s lives. Go figure. No wonder the Dems don’t “get” her. Gee, a father actively participating in his kids lives…instead of just getting her pregnant…

Re: Josh’ Aug. 30 post–I think you are right on the money! There is no way one woman (or man) can do all that is before Ms Palin right now. Something has to suffer, has to be let go. That “something” will, undoubtably be the special needs child. I’ve never seen it to fail. All the talk coming from Palin about family, family, family is just that. Talk. I noticed her adult daughter was in charge of the baby while the mother reveled in the spotlight cast on her by the desperate 72 year old man. It looks like mama Palin birthed the baby then handed him off to her daughter to contend with. All of her children are to be pitied to have a mother so self struck and hungry for recognition/stardom. And, one other thing: The women who supported Hillary are smarter than this–they’ll never fall for it. They wanted Hillary in office, not just a person of the female gender. Give them some credit here. And, no I’m not one of them. I am a white Republican female who has supported Obama from the get go. But, if I was a Hillary supporter, this trick of old McCain would be an insult to my intelligence!

A few things to ponder. McCain barely knows Palin; the country will have a lot of learning to do as well, if the press does its job. Her Wikipedia entry was scrubbed the day before McCain announced her selection; go to the entry and check it out. Up until now, she has denied global warming is a manmade phenomenon; she promotes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (which McCain, as a longtime senator, has opposed); moreover, her advocacy for that drilling is totally in keeping with Alaskan political bosses like Ted Stevens, and it would benefit Alaskans economically although the refuge is federal land. In my book, she is married to Big Oil, and puts Alaska’s local interested in front of America’s interests in setting and accomplishing the urgent goal of freeing ourselves from our oil addiction. The oil companies don’t want that; they want to sell us every last barrel, and that’s Palin’s policy. For perspective: Her state is large in territory, but small in population. Let’s see, her resume is: a governor with ties to Big Oil? Now, where have I heard that before? Finally, to equate her as a national player on Obama’s level is silly. He has demonstrated leadership abilities through the most grueling primary campaign in history against a Clinton machine, and overcome bigotry to inspire million of Americans. She’s done nothing remotely comparable, and I don’t think her right-wing policies are in the country’s best interests. We have had enough of placing ideology before reality.

Hmm, so Obama’s Legislative experience supersedes Palin’s experience? Being a Senator trumps Being a governor?
Some little known facts people may not know about Obama’s so-called experience:
Obama rarely voted in the Illinois State legislature. If he managed to be there for a vote, he often voted “present,” even if there were no politcal advantages to that vote.
Ask anyone that’s served as a governor AND a senator and they’ll tell you that one month as being governor gives you more experience than a term as senator. Why? Because governors veto things, they pass things. Senators vote on things. Governors are the ultimate in burden and responsibility. Senators just vote party ranks. Obama especially, who voted 99% of the time with fellow democrats– who have a 6% approval rating in Congress. But this is when he showed up. He also has one of the lowest voting records in the senate, AND he spent most of his time campaigning for President than working in the senate. Experience? I think not!
Also, Palin has visited the middle east, as many times as Obama has.
What it boils down to for me is, I’d rather take a #2 with little experience than a guaranteed #1 with little experience.

Excellent Choice by McCain.
Gov. Palin is tough and shrewd.
She is also the most popular politician in the U.S. and, maybe, on the planet; because she has fought entrenched power and won for the people. Her government is accountable and transparent. These are improvements we would all like to see.
McCain/Palin ’08

Why does Palin scare the Dems so much? One thing for sure, it has deflected a lot of attention away from Obama.

The reason Palin scares lots of people is because the thought of her running this country is terrifying. The thought of McCain getting elected after picking her because she is, in his words “his soulmate” is creepy beyond belief.
And let’s be honest. How many moms who have babies with significant disabilities go back to work in 3 days? Let alone go running around the country for months hoping to make that a permanent arrangement? Her level of denial is scary; if this were happening to any regular woman, just had a baby, has a child with a disability, and then her eldest child becomes pregnant, we’d look at her and feel sympathy and say “wow, her life’s falling apart. In time she’ll get it back together, but this is crazy. She needs all the help she can get. Let’s make her some dinners and go babysit.”
And if that same regular woman, say, my neighbor, took on a full time, 18 hour a day on-the-road job, one she didn’t need for economic reasons but one she’d do just to feel powerful, you better believe she’d be judged harshly. That’s reality. And reality is McCain/Palin’s biggest deficit, which is why neither is qualified to hold office.

I can’t believe some you clowns trying rationalize Palin as VP. I’m a republican and this is making me lose sleep. We are going to lose if she stays on the ticket. She’s got more baggage than Obama and Biden combined.

“Also, her previous constituency, when she was Mayor of Wasilla, was smaller than Obama’s State Senate District.”
Yeah, like 40 times smaller than Obama’s state senate district.
Yet she had to hire an administrator to run a town of 5,000.
Great “executive ability” there !

Let me point out that she began as a small-town mayor in Wasilla, but when she left, it was the 4rth-largest CITY in Alaska.

actually, to the poster a few comments above, Alaska has slightly more women, then men. get your facts straight, typical republican….
and yes, I am scared about Palin…
if that party wins, I will get down on my knees, (and I am not religious), I will get down on my knees and pray everyday for McCain’s health….
imagine her calling shots at 3 a.m. with a baby crying on a heavy flow day, completely irrational!!!!!

I don’t like the fact that, in every level of office she’s held, there’s evidence that people have been fired or were threatened with it when they didn’t comply with something she wanted. She seems pretty abusive with the limited power she had.
Another thing that bothered me…was that when she read matthew curry’s speech from the teleprompter at the RNC..she said absolutely nothing about the current issues affecting the country, other than a few fallacies.
And…another…I don’t understand how someone can be against big oil, but want to give them more business at the same time. And have a family member working for an oil company. I realize she says she’d tax them and charge royalties, but she also ‘said’ she was for the bridge to nowhere to get the earmark (which she’s against?), but then, when she ran for governor and it was politically necessary to shut the project down, she did so. But kept the money. Does that sound like something new, exciting and different?
Speaking of foreign policy experience…I realize some people will never agree on this, however comma Obama has been correct on the best course of action to take for most issues outside the US in the past year.
Remember when he said he’d bomb part of pakistan where some terrorists were hiding? Musharraf (Bush’s lackey) and the replublicans lambasted him pretty harshly….but what did we end up doing less than two months later?
Other people seem to have trouble differentiating between “talking” and “aquiescing”. Or perhaps that’s just spin…which is also more of the same (foreshadowing?).

On the Dem side, Biden should be the Presidental candidate and Obama the VP. They got the ticket backwards, and now Obama is being compared to Palin. This is not good. I have a feeling we are about to see the end of Obama during the upcoming debates.

I wasn’t very interested in the campaign-now I can’t get enough of Sarah Palin. She’s wonderful. I love to hear her speak. Liberals wouldn’t be so mean if they weren’t scared of her.
I didn’t think I was ready for a women as VP or President…Boy, was I wrong…
She represents Americans so well.
My 85 & 87 years parents are so excited about her they have sent for their ballots.

I was really pissed when Obama got the Democratic nomination because of all of his Jeremieh Wright connections and some anti-Israel advisors that he has. I am a registered independent and was all ready to vote McCain until Palin was made the VP nominee. Not only did Palin support Pat Buchanan, who called Hitler a good man, but she also goes to a church that is just as nutty if not more so than Obama’s church. Her church preeches trying to coerce Jews into becoming Christians and believes that the cause for suicide bombings in Israel is the fact that the Jews have not accepted Jesus. I am also appalled by her disdain for the environment. She hunts moose and other endangered species. She also favors destroying the Artic National Wildlife Refuge and was against declaring the polar bear an endangered species. Its like she has something against the poor polar bears. She is also against abortion even in cases of rape and incest, which is ludricrous and inhumane. If she was a man and had the exact same position, she would be called sexist for holding such views. She also wants to force all women who want to abort fetuses that will become babies with down syndrome to carry through on the pregnancy, all the while being against government funding to help take care of all of these down syndrome babies. Most American women don’t have her money and can’t afford to have a child with down syndrome. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. She also has zero experience with the economy and foreign policy, and is responsible for making the public education system in Alaska amongst the worst in the country. She scares me. If it was McCain-Lieberman, I could have supported McCain, but I can’t support a McCain-Palin ticket, I am sorry. As bad as Obama is, Palin makes Obama look good.

It’s all in the view:
Imagine what would happen if Miss Alaska 1984 winner, Maryline Blackburn, a black and beautiful woman, would have been elected as McCain’s VP (just imagine). Imagine if she had given the SAME EXACT answers to Gibson in the infamous interview. Current view is that Palin’s answers were somewhat not fluent and limited (this is debatable). Yet the media and Reb/Dem party has been quite kind to her, in fact. Would this kind judgement be the same for Maryline Blackburn? In fact, Maryline would have had to shoulder her entire race in a harsher view: Bloggers might say: well.. “blacks are limited.. “; Media (Rush L/ Bill O’Rielly) would say… affirmative action got her there.. : “they don’t study.. if they did.. they’d know the Bush Doctrine.. … they just want handouts..” “.. she jumped schools.. look at her with her daughter having a kid.. “those kinds’ will ruin our country.. etc. etc.”
Fact is, if Palin had been Maryline Blackburn– many of you, who support Palin now– would have ripped apart Blackburn’s exact same answers and applauded Gibson for exposing the truth.
** WHY SO? WE INTERNALLY VIEW THOSE WE HAVE A SOFTNESS FOR WITH LEEWAY.**

Go Ron Paul.
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