A year and a half ago, Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,000, and that's basically her only political experience. And you really think she's qualified to be the leader of the free world? McCain has gone off his fucking rocker with this one. So much for experience being important.
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Um, no. A year and a half ago, she was the Governor of Alaska. And in terms of active political experience, executive/gubernatorial make-or-break experience generally trumps senatorial sit-and-vote (Barack cosponsored some bills, whoopie). The D's are pots calling the kettle black on this one.
Experience has been a Repug 'issue' from the start. Repugs own it and should be held accountable for it. At the very least, the Palin veep pick shows just how hypocritical the McSame camp is. And I think it also shows that McSame puts his ambitions first, not the country. McSame continues to follow the playbook of the Bush Admin, which excelled at political cronyism and expediency, resulting in rampant corruption and incompetence. Palin will be McSame's "Heckuva job, Brownie" girl.
By the way, I'm not a McCain supporter. But I have noticed a correlation between arguing against style-trumps-substance Obama and thumbs-down votes on youtube. (Don't get me started on the massive debt and inflation his "government knows best" programs will cause. It can always CHANGE for the worse, and we're about to learn how.)
My point is that the Repugs have been howling about how Obama does not have enough experience to be president after he served seven years in the Illinois state senate, three years in the US Senate, and beat the Clinton machine in a hard fought primary. Then, they come up with the biggest light-weight they can find for for VP. They are total hypocrites. Palin's only 'qualifications' are Miss Wasilla (does that count?), mayor of Wasilla and very recently governor of Alaska (pop. about 600,000).
McCain has already had four bouts with cancer. Can you imagine someone like Palin becoming President? What a disaster. McCain is obviously putting political expedience way ahead of the needs of the country.
His choice of Palin is an act of desperation. McSame knows he's on the wrong side of the issues and that the smear tactics against Obama aren't working. But instead of sucking it up, showing some mettle and picking someone actually qualified for the position, he gambles big time on an absolute beginner whose only asset is her appeal to Repug party wingnuts. That says a lot about what kind of president he would be. Reckless.
Does anyone other than me get the feeling that the CONs WANT to lose? I mean, look at the unholy mess the next Prez is going to have to start to clean up after the 8 year frat kegger that was the W era. I sure as hell do NOT envy the job.
Hahahaha, Olberman is the typical liberal, arrogant diminishing the importance of Alaska. And Palin never used the word "whining".
FOr sure Hillary will be happy if Palin wins.
duque501 3 years ago
Oh my god. They were not exaggerating about where McCain's eyes were about 80 per cent of the time!
gloryoski 3 years ago
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"Palin makes Obama look like John Adams."
I didn't realize that quietly gliding through two whole years over the competition in a non-executive role elevates oneself to a John Adams level.
timeszero 3 years ago
A year and a half ago, Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,000, and that's basically her only political experience. And you really think she's qualified to be the leader of the free world? McCain has gone off his fucking rocker with this one. So much for experience being important.
frellthat 3 years ago 7
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Um, no. A year and a half ago, she was the Governor of Alaska. And in terms of active political experience, executive/gubernatorial make-or-break experience generally trumps senatorial sit-and-vote (Barack cosponsored some bills, whoopie). The D's are pots calling the kettle black on this one.
timeszero 3 years ago
Experience has been a Repug 'issue' from the start. Repugs own it and should be held accountable for it. At the very least, the Palin veep pick shows just how hypocritical the McSame camp is. And I think it also shows that McSame puts his ambitions first, not the country. McSame continues to follow the playbook of the Bush Admin, which excelled at political cronyism and expediency, resulting in rampant corruption and incompetence. Palin will be McSame's "Heckuva job, Brownie" girl.
nothankyoumam 3 years ago 5
*blinks* This refutes my statements...how?
By the way, I'm not a McCain supporter. But I have noticed a correlation between arguing against style-trumps-substance Obama and thumbs-down votes on youtube. (Don't get me started on the massive debt and inflation his "government knows best" programs will cause. It can always CHANGE for the worse, and we're about to learn how.)
timeszero 3 years ago
My point is that the Repugs have been howling about how Obama does not have enough experience to be president after he served seven years in the Illinois state senate, three years in the US Senate, and beat the Clinton machine in a hard fought primary. Then, they come up with the biggest light-weight they can find for for VP. They are total hypocrites. Palin's only 'qualifications' are Miss Wasilla (does that count?), mayor of Wasilla and very recently governor of Alaska (pop. about 600,000).
nothankyoumam 3 years ago 3
McCain has already had four bouts with cancer. Can you imagine someone like Palin becoming President? What a disaster. McCain is obviously putting political expedience way ahead of the needs of the country.
frellthat 3 years ago 4
His choice of Palin is an act of desperation. McSame knows he's on the wrong side of the issues and that the smear tactics against Obama aren't working. But instead of sucking it up, showing some mettle and picking someone actually qualified for the position, he gambles big time on an absolute beginner whose only asset is her appeal to Repug party wingnuts. That says a lot about what kind of president he would be. Reckless.
nothankyoumam 3 years ago
Keith's bicycle bit was hilarious.
RyMooval 3 years ago
That's not a flip flop, that's a lie!
loki3692 3 years ago
Does anyone other than me get the feeling that the CONs WANT to lose? I mean, look at the unholy mess the next Prez is going to have to start to clean up after the 8 year frat kegger that was the W era. I sure as hell do NOT envy the job.
Plutonwolf 3 years ago 3