Posted on 09/03/2008 5:15:30 AM PDT by markomalley
In his Denver speech, Sen. Barack Obama tried to lay to rest the issue of whether he has the experience to become commander in chief.
He was helped by Sen. John McCain's choice for vice president, Sarah Palin. Her experience mainly consists of two years as governor of Alaska and a stint as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, pop. about 8,000.
It's sobering to think of Palin, however feisty, being a heartbeat away from the top job. McCain, who is the oldest man ever to run and has had health problems, turned 72 on Friday: this makes the choice of vice president more key. Palin, 44, might be suited for the presidency in a remake of ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' the 1939 Jimmy Stewart movie, but in the real world the thought is bizarre.
McCain clearly puts more value on galvanizing his pro-life base (and a few angry Hillary voters) than on providing backup for his age risk. His move undermines the claim that Obama's résumé is too slim for the White House.
Indeed, McCain's choice puts new focus on just what kind of qualifications are required for the next commander in chief.
The next president will face a very different world than did George W. Bush. In 2000, the United States was strong economically and unchallenged militarily. We still basked in a post-Cold War glow, where it appeared that America could exercise virtually unlimited power.
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Would she say the same had Ed Rendell got the nod for Nobama's VP?
H3ll, Governor Palin has more executive experience than the other three candidates COMBINED!!
The ‘Rats keep pulling the line that she’s less experienced than Obama when nothing could be further from the truth. They think if they keep saying it while explaining none of it, that it will be true.
Sadly, it will be true for many voters. People don’t get much information.
My mother knew more about Palin’s daughter’s fiance last night than she knew about her. Heck, she had no idea that Palin is the governor.
We HAVE to crush this.
Keep trying MSM; the fairness doctrine could be turned around on you.
To quote Mark Steyn:
“Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain’t run nothin’ but his mouth.”
It is idiotic... She will be working with McCain/top dog, who has TONS of experience whereas Obama(as top dog) has none!
How simple is that? Those dims are downright losing it at every turn.
And besides, think of all the added experience Sarah will have while campaigning for 'Pub #2.
By their logic, she should debate Obama instead of Biden.
And why can’t we compare the experience level of the governor of our largest state with the experience level of a community organizer from Chicago?
It's sobering to think of Palin, however feisty, being a heartbeat away from the top job.
But she doesn't voice the same concern about Obama? The GOP needs to pound on this dichotomy again and again and again. Their own words indict their own candidate.
As opposed to Jimmah Carter, whose experience mainly consisted of three years as governor of Georgia and a stint as nothing in Plains, Georgia, pop. 637.
The Fairness Doctrine has one purpose -
to silence opposition to collectivist leftist propaganda.
It will never be “turned around on” them, because that is not the purpose.
Collectivists use authority and power on a “case by case” basis, meaning that the rules are never applied equally. It’s in their ideological DNA.
We have a hard time understanding that because we view laws as rules set up ahead of events and then to judge events by those rules. They don’t think that way.
Do they REALLY want to make this election about “experience”?
McCain, no one would have known you had this in you.
Who's running for President, McCain or Palin, Obama or Biden?
Palin with 13 years in elected and having held an executive offices is less experienced than Obama, the community organizer and junior Senator who never earned a real paycheck in his life, who spent half of his Senatorial carreer campaigning?
Sometimes liberals do some strange acrobatic twists in their thinking to arrive at the predetermined answers they want to hear. I guess it “feels” good to them.
Bush took over in Jan 2001, you moron, and the US was sliding into a recession and throughout the 1990s al-Qaeda was blowing up our US embassies at will while Saddam continued to not honor the Gulf War surrender agreement.
The author of that article should not be allowed to publish such nonsense.
The media has settled on a new talking point to attack mccain. “he did not vette palin enough”
IOW it was too little. What did they expect McCain to do? dinner and dancing?
Obama has to be mixed up in these attacks. Poedesta and media matters have to be in this mix because MSNBC and CNN “comentary” tracks too well even for left wing zombies.
Let’s look at who will be training whom in our presidential-vice presidential race:
Scenario 1. The Democrats win: We have an experienced vice president training an inexperienced president.
Scenario 2. The Republicans win: We have an experienced president training a semiexperienced vice president.
“Experience” is relative, depending on your political affiliation and your ability to understand “executive (decision-making) experience” as opposed to “political experience.”
One might point out that the Obama-Biden relationship will parallel the much-maligned Bush-Cheney relationship.
Careful what you wish for, Democrats: It may come back to “Biden” you!
If she ain’t experienced enough to be President after being a Governor of the largest state in the union then Black Racist Oblack isn’t ready to be President.
Pray for W, Palin and Our Troops
Everyone always skips over the fact that she was the chair and Ethics Supervisor of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees 20% of the USA’s energy production.
Barry’s co-author of one of his books said that BHO was a master at stirring sht in the background and denouncing it in the foreground.
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