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To: lonster
...and we want to elect palin who has no experence either?

That would be twelve years of executive experience for Palin. None for Obama.

...not to mention quit her elected postion. how stupid.

She gained both a legal and political advantage over her adversaries by quitting the governorship. She also saved the state and her family a lot of money.

Your objections carry no weight.

10 posted on 11/16/2010 4:50:00 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

sorry, no FEDERAL executive experence. sorry, she should have never quit her elected postion. it makes her appear flighty and not serious. i say again, there must be somebody else.


41 posted on 11/16/2010 5:26:27 PM PST by lonster
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To: okie01; lonster
we got bammy with no experence [and with malign intent] doing a horrendous job and we want to elect palin who has no experence either?
That would be twelve years of executive experience for Palin. None for Obama.
not to mention quit her elected postion. how stupid.
She gained both a legal and political advantage over her adversaries by quitting the governorship. She also saved the state and her family a lot of money.
surely there must be someone else to run for president. i think she’s great, but just not as a president. not yet at least.

3 posted on 11/16/2010 4:42:41 PM PST by lonster

You know, it's a funny thing. There are hundreds of thousands of adults in every Congressional District. You would think, if we elected the smartest person in our district to be our congressman, that Congress would qualify as a chapter of Mensa. And yet anyone who talks to any of these people gets the impression that nine out of ten of them aren't any smarter than your average shopowner. If that.
"Liberals" vaunt the intelligence of Obama, but all I see is hubris. He says he doesn't pretend to be an engineer, but he presumes to override engineering decisions as if he were technically qualified. And I don't even exclude Republican congressmen from that critique. I just think that who gets to be considered presidential timber has a lot more to do with fortune than with intelligence.

So we have a situation where Sarah Palin, who made smart enough decisions to be a well-regarded governor, has been elevated to a presidential ticket and has the experience of campaigning nationwide. I agree with Thomas Gray's ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD:

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Any number of people, given Palin's life experience, might be more capable as president. But where are they? We don't know them, and we know Sarah. We can judge her intentions, and we can judge her level of self-awareness, her ability to stay grounded and to seek and to evaluate expert advice. We can be pretty sure that if elected president she'll make some good decisions and some bad ones. As did Reagan, or any other president you could name. That would be true as well of Gray's "gem[s] of purest ray serene" as well. None would be perfect. Of all the ones we know, I say Sarah is good enough to serve if elected, and able enough to be likely to get elected if nominated. Over the objections of Associated Press Journalism, which is a given for any Republican - even a RINO like McCain.

I advocate uniting behind Palin before they foist another McCain on us. We simply can't afford that.


59 posted on 11/16/2010 5:52:00 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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