Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin has executive experience. Barack Obama has been running for President since being elected to the Senate. All the Democrat talking points won’t be able to dissuade many Hillary supporters from voting for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Full speech by Palin at her introduction to America in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008:
Link: sevenload.com
Sarah Palin
Current Office: Governor of Alaska
Date of Birth: Feb. 11, 1964
Age: 44
Place of Birth: Sandpoint, Idaho
Home: Wasilla, Alaska
Education: University of Idaho, 1987
Religion: Lutheran
Party: Republican
Political Experience: Wasilla Mayor, 1996-2002. Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairman, 2003-04. Elected governor in 2006.
Misc.: Palin’s son Track enlisted in the Army in 2007, and is scheduled to be deployed to Iraq in September.
Barack Obama:
Community Organizer, Partnered with William Ayers, terrorist.
A clear choice for all the disaffected Hillary supporters.
Love the title of your article! And so true! Biden said Obama wasn’t qualified, and Hillary said he wasn’t qualified…
So I going to listen to them and pick the most qualified…
McCain/Palin
Country First.
The more I think of it, the more I like this VP choice, although I thought McCain playing it safer, w/ Romney as VP was the direction to go.
Now the Obamatons are all out in arms, braying that Palin has no experience in facing important decisions – and contrasting this with Glibama’s achievements! Absurd & easy to dismiss charge & comparison:
Yes, it is true that Alaska has more reindeers than people, and population smaller that Obama’s following in the US penitentiary system, but now look at the map of the North-West America – the Behring strait (just 50 miles between Russia and the USA), then Kamchiatka, Vladivostok, and Russia’s enormous military system lurking in Siberia, eyeing the US and Alaska (with its enormous oil and mineral reserves – and don’t forget that Alaska purchase is another object of nostalgia amongst irredentist Russians. And I don’t introduce now in this ominous reality the N. Korean and China menacing proximity!)
This position gives Alaska a particularly important geopolitical weight, and this situation places on the Alaska governor’s office more strategic concerns and matters to deal with than most US governors face.
So, the comparison between Sarah Palin’s, governor of Alaska and mister Glibama’, the community activist job weight is ridiculous – the Alaska governor has more US strategic problems to envisage daily than the community activist from Chicago ever had, and ever will have during fifteen life-times.
Topping this, mister Glibama anyway never-ever-ever held a job of minimal responsibility, of any nature – except an unsuccessful shot as laudromat manager in New York, shot which credentialized him for sitting together with Ayres in a straw-men board to spend the Annenberg millions (we’ll learn more about this later).
As far as Joe Biden part of this equation: for any Glibamaton out there – can you tell where is the hope’n change and the no more politics as usual in Washington? Where is the “people want change, want new faces in Washington?” Sure Biden’s 35 years in the US senate trumps McCain’s, don’t they? And what about fresh figures? Have you prepared in your budget some money for Biden’s face lift?
You’re joking, right? I mean, I know you have to play the party line in order to get your McBush Silver Star, but you are joking, right?
You’re actually thinking that Sarah Palin, Miss Congeniality Fisherwoman, has foreign affairs credibility because Russia hasn’t invaded Alaska during her term in office?
It’s ridiculous enough for McBush to try defending the GOP solely on the basis that there have been no terrorist attacks since 9/11. Now we’re supposed to be fearful of Russian invasions via the Aleutians unless we elect John “Ready, Fire, Aim!” McBush and his trusty sidekick Sarah Shortbread?
If there is going to be a comparison between Palin and Obama (which seems nuts since one is running for President and one is the Vice Presidential candidate) then one needs to go to the ‘red state’ web site and read the article ‘Tale of the Tape, Sarah Palin vs. Barak Obama.’ It is a pretty amazing comparison.
Sounds like those that know Sarah Palin best, namely Alaskans, are less than enthralled with McBush’s pick:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/2-top-alaska-newspapers-q_b_122625.html
A reporter for the Anchorage daily, Gregg Erickson, even did an online chat with the Washington Post, in which he revealed that Palin’s approval rating in the state was not the much-touted 80%, but 65% and sinking — and that among journalists who followed her it might be in the “teens.” He added: “I have a hard time seeing how her qualifications stack up against the duties and responsibilities of being president…. I expect her to stick with simple truths. When asked about continued American troop presence in Iraq, she said she knows only one thing about that (I paraphrase): no one has attacked the American homeland since George Bush took the war to Iraq.”
His paper found a number of leading Republican officeholders in the state who mocked Palin’s qualifications. “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Lyda Green, the president of the State Senate, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
Another top Republican, John Harris, the speaker of the House, when asked about her qualifications for Veep, replied with this: “She’s old enough. She’s a U.S. citizen.”
LMAO
Appearing on Face The Nation, liberal New York Times columnist David Brooks said:
“You can see why McCain took her,” he said.
“She risked her political career to take on the special interests in her own party, she took on the oil companies. She’s like McCain. McCain wants to change this campaign from change to, from left to right, he wants to make it, ‘I’m going to clean out the stables.’
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If Obama running on a campaign of “change” seems naive to some Americans, McBush running on a campaign of “reform” is downright hilarious. What reform has he made? He’s sided with Bushie 95% of the time. He runs a Rovian campaign = “nothing I offer is getting traction, so I’ll try my best to trash the other guy.”
“Obama would rather lose a war than a campaign… but don’t get me wrong, I’m not questioning his patriotism! Why would you think that?”
If McBush is truly serious about “cleaning out the stables” he and his “soul mate” should exit, stage right. That’d be a good start.