Posted on 08/29/2008 9:57:50 PM PDT by STE=Q
If McCain wins the presidency Sarah Palin will become the first woman Vice President in the history of the United States.
Sarah Palin, in her acceptance speech, credited Hillary Clinton with making “18 million cracks in the glass ceiling.”
After kicking Hillary to the curb (not even vetting her) in preference for ‘token’ Joe Biden -- mostly in order to appease “working class” whites -- the Obama machine is winding up to launch attacks against Sarah Palin.
They are claiming she lacks experience:
In fact, she has more experience than Obama, even though she’s running for Vice President and Obama is running for President.
While Obama has experience at ‘running’ his mouth as a community “organizer” and then as a junior senator; Palin has experience ‘running’ a city and then ‘running’ a State‘ -- as mayor of Wasilla and then governor of Alaska.
She has also ‘run’ several businesses.
Logically, the vice President should not be appreciably more competent than the President:
After all, if the Vice President were more competent then the President, it would follow that he (she) should have been selected to run for President -- not Vice President.
This is the McCain/Palin ticket.
McCain can stand on his own two feet and so can Palin.
Illogically, Obama’s running mate Joe Biden is, in fact, considerably more experienced than Obama
Even Obama knew this on some level when he mistakenly introduced Biden as “ the next President of the United States… a “Freudian slip” perhaps?
But why the anomaly?
Obama’s being propped up at every turn -- a puppet for the leftwing “progressives” of the democratic party.
Obama tows the party line.
He cannot stand on his own two feet.
On the other hand McCain has demonstrated independent thinking in his selection of
Sarah Palin… well on her way to becoming the first female Vice President in the history of the United States!
It sure as heck kept him off the front pages today.
This was supposed to be his day to bask in the glow....
I have always maintained that the first minority president and the first woman president would not be liberals. The American people will happily vote for a minority, but add out-there liberalism with distasteful friends, and they will be unenthusiastic. A conservative black or woman seems safe. When McCain really gets too old for the job, which could be in just four years, Palin will be ready to step in. (I hope.)
McCain had an ad on last night. He told Obama, Job well done. Tomorrow we get back to the campaign. He wasn’t kidding one bit.
I’m excited about her being the pick, but I wonder will it really help McCain in places like Ohio, PA, etc??
McCain, is busting up two glass ceilings.
He is breaking the age and gender ceilings.
He is throwing biases and discrimination out the window.
The dems are just so mad! Great day in America.
Every American may not have a person of color in their lives. But everyone has a woman in their lives!
Osama Obama and Company attacking Sarah Palin for inexperience is only digging themselves deeper into their own dung.
Yep, the McCain people planned this well, so as to maximize the news impact.
I heard some reporters say that Sarah Palin and family traveled from Alaska to Ohio over the past couple of days, and they went unnoticed because the Dem. convention was going on. Some reporters were following Mitt Romney and Pawlenty around, but nobody was checking on where Gov. Palin was.
There was a liberal dude on TV who said that McCain doesn’t really know Sarah Palin well, and only met her once before the vetting process for VP candidates started. And he said he wouldn’t even take a woman out to dinner if he only met her once, much less make her a partner in a presidential administration.
The National Organization of Women released a statement saying that Sarah Palin is not right on women’s issues, and that they don’t support women candidates for office just because they are women.
The Obama strategists are just bungling and flailing at this maneuver and it’s the death nail IMO for Hussein.
McCain has moved the target off him and off Bush to a smart attractive, competant woman that excites the base.
They realized their initial response attacking her was a blunder so they are now trying to massage the message by attacking McCain for “lack of judgment appointing someone inexperienced” which I think is equally idiotic considering McCain’s biography and political resume.
I’ve worked on mayoral campaigns and am a student of Presidential politics. One thing I have learned over the years is that when your opponent makes a brilliant maneuver you get out of the way and let him enjoy the spotlight for now. The Dems should be getting out of the way and let McCain and the GOP keep pumping her up and raising expectations for her and and then you can come out swinging at a more appropriate time.
The Dems have spent all day (and probably the rest of the campaign) railing against Palin as some sort of beauty queen dipstick who has no business being in the same political arena.
Biden vs Palin will be the most watched VP debate in the history of Presidential elections and Team Obama has done McCain’s work for him by lowering the bar for her to hit against an old cranky Washington stogey.
This campaign is over IMO. McCain wins by 7 or 8% in November.
For those who may not share or understand Senator McCain's Naval heritage: "Job well done!" is what a superior says to a subordinate.
"Tomorrow we'll be back at it" is a very polite way of saying "Is that all you've got?"
McCain totally pwn3d Obama!
I read on a PUMA site that Palin has said she is unwilling to legislate against abortion. Is that true? Is she truly pro life in all circumstances and willing to push legislation?
We can only hope!
“Sarah Palin: Did McCain Pick First Female Vice President?”
I believe so and I hope so. Polls by next Friday ought to tell us. If they are back even, within one or two points, then the debates will tell the tale.
Why do I have the impression that McCain’s choice of Palin has really taken the wind out of Obama’s sails?
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Coz she shot it full of holes ???????
Is she truly pro life in all circumstances?
As far as I know, yes.
STE=Q
All the while ticking off more and more women all over this country. The ones on CNN were like pit bulls going on and on about this VP. They are rabid and foaming.
I read on a PUMA site that Palin has said she is unwilling to legislate against abortion. Is that true? Is she truly pro life in all circumstances and willing to push legislation?
Here’s one article I found in a quick google search that indicates she has taken steps on pro-life legislation, in this case on parental notification.
http://www.lifenews.com/state3460.html
“The Obama strategists are just bungling and flailing at this maneuver and it’s the death nail IMO for Hussein.”
You know, the media questioned Obama and Biden on Palin at that factory they were touring and they both looked like someone had punched them in the gut or something.
Biden was pallid and Obama looked like he had aged about ten years since he started his run for the presidency.
I even felt a little sorry for him.
You may be right that it’s over... still, it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the enemy.
STE=Q
“McCain, is busting up two glass ceilings.
He is breaking the age and gender ceilings.
He is throwing biases and discrimination out the window.
The dems are just so mad! Great day in America.
Every American may not have a person of color in their lives. But everyone has a woman in their lives!”
HERE! HERE!
STE=Q
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