Sarah Palin picked as the VP for McCain.
http://news.yahoo.co...eepstakes_palin
Now the Republican ticket looks like this:
(kidding of course!)
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Former beauty pageant queen and hockey mom with five children at age 44, Sarah Palin has got to be the worst choice for McCain’s VP. Previous jobs of hers also include working at a local Anchorage television station and fishing.
Posted 30 August 2008 - 06:03 AM
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 07:43 AM
she sure looks young and inexperienced. sarah palin is 44 , but she can pass as a 20-something or maybe 30 year old, good looking too , i think she won a beauty pagent , miss alaska or maybe miss congeniality , and that got her scholarship to college etc, Miss America scholarship program. her husband is athletically active too, won 2,000-mile long races
mccain had his birthday yesterday, 72 yr old man, if mccain dies in office, then we'll have a first female president afterall, not as experienced as hillary but hopefully as smart/ even smarter. Smart and sexy , go palin.
i used to lean for mccain, now liking obama more. confused about mccain vs obama, but of course will support the politicians that support medicine, healthcare, the Singularity, LE /longevity research, the longevity dividend , etc, moving us closer to the goal
Edited by TianZi, 30 August 2008 - 07:48 AM.
Posted 30 August 2008 - 07:49 AM
At least Mccain can't use the inexperience argument on Obama anymore without seeming a hypocrite.
"Hey baby! Who stole my mojo?"
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 08:17 AM
It's rather a stretch to say that Palin is "as inexperienced as Obama".
In terms of political experience, Obama has served for 4 years as a United States senator. Prior to that he served in the Illinois Senate for 7 years. Palin has served two years as governor of Alaska, which is very nearly the least inhabited state in the US. Before becoming governor, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, City Council from 1992 to 1996, and was elected mayor of Wasilla twice, in 1996 and 1999. Wasilla is a sleepy little town with a population of somewhere between 6,000 and 9,000.
There is nothing else on Palin's resume demonstrating she is qualified to be POTUS. She has an undergrad degree from the U. of Idaho, not particularly impressive, particularly combined with McCain's abyssmal performance at the bottom of his class.
Obama is a lawyer, and worked as a law professor for 12 years at the U. of Chicago Law School, one of the top law schools in the country. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard. It's not hard to make the argument that Obama is vastly more intelligent than Palin, and I believe intelligence should be viewed as a critical qualification for POTUS, not something to be villified. Obama's experience as a lawyer and law professor does make him more qualified to serve as POTUS, since the President is the Chief Executive charged with enforcing US laws, something the current POTUS has done very poorly.
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 09:55 AM
They, like their daughter, look like pretty regular folks. And check out all the hunting trophies on the wall. How cool is that? Any endangered species? This is going to drive the tree-huggers and PETA folks nuts.
Posted 30 August 2008 - 10:02 AM
Here's Sarah Palin's parents watching the VP announcement on TV.
They, like their daughter, look like pretty regular folks. And check out all the hunting trophies on the wall. How cool is that? Any endangered species? This is going to drive the tree-huggers and PETA folks nuts.
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 10:47 AM
This is going to drive the tree-huggers and PETA folks nuts.
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Posted 30 August 2008 - 11:46 AM
Cretinists are considered to be sane enough to lead?? Only in America!And that's not the best part! … She's also a CREATIONIST!
Posted 30 August 2008 - 11:54 AM
Creationists are considered to be sane enough to lead?? Only in America!And that's not the best part! … She's also a CREATIONIST!
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Posted 31 August 2008 - 10:38 AM
Whoa there tiger!!! Your a little quick on the draw with the race card!!! Thanks for helping to confirm my stereotypes of Obama supporters. In any case, my wife and I are a mixed race couple; I have a sister and one brother who have non-caucasian spouses as well; I also have two nieces and a nephew (through adoption) who are non-caucasian. What I meant by "pretty regular folks" is that they appear to be living in fairly modest circumstances. And yeah, though I'm personally not a big hunter or fisher, the hunting and fishing trophies on the wall do remind me of family and home.Do they look like "pretty regular folks" to you because they are white, and not a mixed race couple?
Good for her, perhaps she can talk some sense into McCain on this issue.I guess by "tree-hugger" you mean anyone passionate about protecting the environment. Palin still believes man has played no role in increasing global warming. That belief in the next potential POTUS should drive any reasonable person "nuts".
Posted 31 August 2008 - 11:16 AM
Based on the articles I've read in the past day, Palin was an 11th hour pick, and McCain held out until the very end trying to persuade his Republican backers to accept former Democrat-turned-Independent Lieberman, his close friend, as his VP candidate. But Lieberman is pro-choice like McCain, and that might ensure that Evangelicals would sit out the election. He's also very liberal on domestic issues.
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