What Palin Needs to Know

Obama's recent tour of the Middle East was impressive. He garnered enthusiastic reviews from one country after another. No small feat considering he was meeting with countries each of which wanted him to say the opposite thing! What a shame more seasoned international affairs politicians have not been able to achieve as much on their tours. If McCain could remember which sects occupy which parts of Iraq,
his claim to superior experience and expertise might have more resonance.

Palin is the Vice President nominee, not President. Where is the discussion about Obama's same lack of experience in international affairs? He will be the top dog dealing with these issues and he has zero experience in these matters. A little bias here, no?

Yesterday was only the second time Palin has even appeared in public. How long is it going to be before she's made available to answer questions about her record, experience, and knowledge? The fact that McCain has to keep her under wraps until she's "filled in" on all these issues is very telling.

She doesn't even have opinions on many of these issues. What's gonna happen if McCain kicks the bucket and Iran and Russia start pushing "Sarah Barracuda" because they know everything she knows about them, she learned in a "crash course" on foreign affairs?

Do we really need another Cuban Missile Crisis?

How naive I must be. You were the one who compare Obama to Adams.
LOL
ROTFL
You're a riot.
Did you not read the history lesson I gave you.
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I think you might be one of those "special needs" kids Palin wants so desperately to help.
ROTFL

Neos prove my point on hypocrosy.
Palin is running for VP.
Obama is running for PRESIDENT.
But he has no problem with the fact that his candidate has NO FOREIGN POLICY experience either--other than a trip to the middle east and europe.
So, all Palin has to do is catch a flight, shake some hands in a couple of photo ops, and she's all caught up.
LOL

Oh, this is too rich - the party of Karl Rove whining about personal attacks. I particularly enjoyed the high hipocrisy of Steve Schmidt, George McCain's chief strategist and an honor graduate of Karl Rove's School of Charm and Character Assassination, playing the gender card today. As Senator Obama said, family members are off limits. The deeper issue here is McCain's reckless choice for VP. She did well in mean-spirited mocking but all Palin brings to the ticket is the re-opening of the cultural wars along the old divisive lines of conservative-liberal and the old divisive issues like abortion. She knows nothing of economics or foreign policy. If , God forbid, something happened to McCain tomorrow, what thinking person would put this character up for the head of the ticket? McCain made a gimmicky political choice putting getting elected above choosing a valid running mate.

That's the very point they made.
Democrats can't have a intelligent honest debate, they are too busy attacking people's families, being hypocritical, and snyde about the personal lives of the candidates. Oh, how Obama was angry when his wife was attacked. But your party has no problem pounding on Palin's daughter.
The honest debate lies in exactly what Guliani and Palin pointed out. Your candidate has done nothing but deliver empty promises without a single ounce of merit that he can deliver. That is a fact, as the mayor of New York so clearly pointed out.
That you would rather try and capitilize on an obvious jestered remark to elevate yourself as a more intelligent party, I say this--not once, not one single Republican was arrested at the DNC for being demonstrative of destructive during your parties, ahem, party. Yet the protesters and the sheer display of ignorance displayed by your supporters clears illuminates just which side the nut jobs reside on. You can say that it doesn't represent all Democrats; however, NO Republican acts that way. Ever.
So spare me the "we wish to have an honest debate speech."
This coming from the party who attacked her experience, when she actually has more than your nominee does.
Does it matter?
Yes.
Even in baseball, a guy can show up on the field and say he can hit a hundred homeruns for the team in the coming year--but the coach is still going to want to see him bat before he makes the team genius.
Experience shows YOU CAN DELIVER on the things you say.
Heck, if it doesn't, maybe you should run. I am sure you can promise all sorts of good stuff--and if people buy it ... well ... who knows.

All Palin brings to the ticket is the re-opening of the cultural wars along the old divisive lines of conservative-liberal and the old divisive issues like abortion. She knows nothing of economics or foreign policy. If , God forbid, something happened to McCain tomorrow, what thinking person would put this character up for the head of the ticket?

So she just gave us her rise from PTA mom to Mayor to Governor, and we heard from HER & everyone else how she did a wonderful job in these positions, cutting taxes, standing up to the bad guys, now Alaska has a surplus etc. my question is, how could she do such a great job WITHOUT prior experience? Doesn't that make the argument that one needs prior executive/ Commander-in-cheif experience to be an executive/ C-I-
C moot? And on bashing the Dem ticket as both have never led anything, John McCAin has never been an executive either, in fact Biden has served longer in the Senate. I think this experience attack will backfire big time.

After watching the RNC and Sarah Palin this evening, I will give her credit for being a good speaker, but she's no Hillary Clinton, so if McCain was counting on winning the Hillary votes.. very doubtful

How can you say Palin lacks foreign policy experience when she lives so close to Russia? Why do people think a person needs to spend time outside their small town to know anything about the world? Okay, enough of that.. We know Palin is not qualified for VP let alone president.

It's John McCain we should worry about. Since he graduated fifth from the bottom of his class at the US Naval Academy, he couldn't apply for a job at the Pentagon. Since he lacks business experience, he couldn't apply for a job in Corporate America. It only makes sense then that he seeks the highest office in the land and the world.

But what is really troubling is his lack of moral character and complete willingness to trade principles for the presidency. Let's hope the American people have learned from the last eight years, and won't duplicate it.

wHO ineeds to face Reality here- in all my years I have never notice that John McCain is so stiff- and he looks like he had a stroke-------I watch both CONVENTIONS, and I must say that Republicans are dirty and mean and nasty- while Democrate concentrate on the needs of the American People- what a differene.
What a waste of air and time-Republicans are so nasty and demon

Oh, I thought she was still learning what the VP of the U.S. does.