A Personal Moment with VP Nominee Sarah Palin | Newsweek Politics: Conventions

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Posted By: tomanjeri @ 08/29/2008 1:47:20 PM

The pick of Sarah Palin isn't a play for women supporters, it's an attempt to regain a sliver of the Maverick image he threw away when he pandered to the Conservative base and so quickly threw away the principles he claimed to have by negatively attacking Obama. She's a weak candidate and it's a weak pick by McCain, nothing about it instills a sense of confidence that he can make good decisions.

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Posted By: mccainsupporter @ 08/29/2008 1:46:02 PM

Sarah Palin is a wonderful pick for vice President. Both John McCain and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin realize that the Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to effectively give away in trust our offshore exclusive economic zone by standing in the way of any current offshore development. Under the 1982 United Nations Law of the Seas Convention the US has an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles and mineral seabed rights up to 350 nautical miles extending along the Continental shelf. A nautical mile is 6080 feet so our exclusive economic zone extends about 240 miles and mineral seabed rights extend 420 miles. The US has the world's largest offshore exclusive economic zone totaling 4.4 million square miles. In comparison, the total land area of the United States is only 3.4 million square miles. On the East coast alone, if you drive from Key West Florida to Bangor Maine it is 2000 miles. Multiply the 2000 miles by mineral seabed rights extending out 420 miles results in a total of 840,000 square miles of ocean acreage. Because we have the world's largest offshore coastline which is twenty-eight percent greater than our land area, it only makes simple common sense that we exploit our offshore resources to achieve our energy independence.

Posted By: ciltep @ 08/29/2008 1:45:27 PM
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gustavgustav, you'r smoking crack. There is little difference between Obama's stance on policies and Hillary's other than she voted for the Iraq war. So, if Hillary and Obama share the same ideals and principles, except she voted for the war, then her supporters were really aligning with her because they too thought a vote for the war was a good thing. Obviously this is ridiculous. Call a spade a spade. Many of her supporters supported her because she had the same ideals and principles as Obama, but she was a woman.

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Posted By: Prt10 @ 08/29/2008 1:42:49 PM

Well for all the women voters who now say they want to vote for Sarah - if the fact she flies in the face for all Hillary beleives - they need to look no further than the whiner comment. Why would you want to vote for someone who has no respect for Hillary?

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Posted By: holly berry @ 08/29/2008 1:42:48 PM

I am an Obama supporter but my first reaction is that this is a very smart move on McCain's part. As I understand the "scandal" has yet to be proved and from her past of fighting corruption probably won't be. Anyway, we Democrats need to focus on the real issue in this campaign : the economy and how Obama will deal with it. We need to ignore distractions like obscure scandals. If we allow ourselves to be distracted from the economy, we might actually lose this.

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Posted By: gustavgustav @ 08/29/2008 1:40:58 PM

Sarah who? Are you freakin kidding me?! If McCain and the republican party thinks the women of this country are that dumb to jump to their ticket because of choosing Palin, they're dead wrong. Those who supported Hillary believed in her ideals and principles. Palin doesn't have any of those strengths going for her. A very weak choice for a very desperate party.