I’ll Tell You Why Not Palin
Jon Goldsmith
With all this talk about Palin in the news, I don’t want to get distracted. I admire Obama immensely for asking the media to not bash Palin based on the fact that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. The fact that we can see a politician put scruples before a chance for a cheap shot is at very least refreshing.
I have been a proud Obama supporter since last fall, but I always thought that McCain would be the best of the worst candidates for the republican party. However, he has nominated a woman who knows very little about Washington, Iraq, and what the Vice President does on a daily basis. This is extremely dangerous.
McCain is no spring chicken. Do we really want a woman, younger than Obama, with less experience, less credentials, and less influence to be a heartbeat away from leading the most powerful nation in the history of man? I don’t want a woman who doesn’t know what the VP does on a day to day basis a moment away from having the authority to turn the key and command the vast nuclear arsenal that is the United States.
I will not attack Palin based on the fact that she is a woman, or based on the fact that her daughter is pregnant. I will attack Palin because she is the worst possible choice for a vice-president. This isn’t about wining elections, while it might have been a shake-up political move, it doesn’t matter. This is about America. She is not ready to lead nor do I believe she has the ability to.
September 6th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I agree-she IS the worst possible choice if you disregard her bringing down some pretty big Dem and Repub operatives in Alaska; if you disregard her fiscal and executive successes in managing a multibillion state budget and some 15,000 employees; if you disregard her obvious intelligence and courage; and of course if you also believe that women can’t walk and chew gum. Why, then she clearly would be the wrong choice since she would be about as accomplished as …. a silver-tongued community organizer who has never managed a lemonade stand, but who has demonstrated the courage to ask the media (but not his netroot buddies) to lay off her (and his own) kids, but has not the courage, humility nor wisdom to admit that the Surge was a success!
September 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Myth: Sarah Palin
I told the Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.”
Reality:
This refers to a $220 million federal allocation for a bridge to the tiny island of Gravina, with a population of just a few dozen people. As governor of Alaska, Ms. Palin was for it before she was against it. Asked about that bridge and one other in an October 2006 television debate in her campaign for governor, she said, “I do support the infrastructure projects that are on tap here in the state of Alaska that our Congressional delegations worked hard for.” She repeated her support later that month. She abandoned the project in September 2007, saying it would require too much state money to finish it.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/05/us/politics/20080905-CAMPAIGN-SPEECH-ANALYSIS.html?hp
I don’t care that she’s a woman I would have voted for Hilary. I care that she thinks that the Iraq war is god’s will. Last I checked Mr. Pundit America doesn’t fight religious wars. That’s one of the reason’s I used to like living here. And the fact that you people are saying she has foreign policy experience because she is next to russia and canada is simply laughable. If I may quote John Stewart, “Does that mean she has experience with Santa Claus too?”
I don’t want another evangelist running around the white house who believe we are in a holy war. To be perfectly honest, I’m not voting for obama anymore to make sure he gets into the white house, I’m voting for him now to make sure Sarah Palin doesn’t. I would have been fine with McCain as commander in chief but not when his number two is the biggest joke of a candidate ever. Two years in politics. Did I mention she also told the Alaskan Independence party, a secessionist part to “Keep up the good work”?
You gotta be kidding me
Oh and if you have time, fact check McCain on saying Obama will raise taxes for most families, the facts are actually that he would actually cut taxes in 81% of households, 95.5% of them having children?
September 6th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I’ll take an honest evangelist before a hypocritical secularist any time.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am
and the policy of separation of church and state? a bedrock since the foundation of the union? what happens to that?