What Palin Needs to Know

Who needs to be facing reality? John McCain is physically stiff, and does not move his neck why- he looks like he had a stroke-I dont want to soud mean, but he is stifff in his policies and so call plans for US. He agreed 90% with BUSH, that means more 60% of time we will reliving Bush policies. Palin follow the plan of CLinton to clean out government spending mess, who left the White in surplus, CLinton-

Former senator Fred Thompson pointed out her single most qualifying reason to be VP: she can field dress a moose.

The real irony is that Hirsh recognizes that Iraq is going to be low on the problem priority list. Biden does not help matters for Obama by telling Israel that they will have to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran,thus presenting an early Obama foreign policy fait accompli. Then too,Hirsh admits to the very recipe Obama seeks in dealing with the Paks,by sending US troops across their borders to ''get''bin Laden[something that few of his supporters have problems with ,so beating on Bush for trying to do it now with ground troops is ultimately futile].
The pick of Palin merely returns the ''Imperial Vice Presidency'' to its more humble roots. Even Johnson,the most powerful Senate leader in its history,the very inventor of ''The Johnson Way'',was totally shut out by the Kennedys and reduced to globetrotting glad-hand speeches.[''A miserable man'' wrote historian Robert Caro,author of ''The Years Of Lyndon Johnson'']. Everybody remembers Truman. Damned few can remember the name of his Vice President or what,if anything,he accomplished in a world as dangerous then,as this one is now. Same deal with FDR[ ''he sleeps for most of the day'' said one reporter referring to veep Henry Wallace].
Perhaps it had not occurred to Hirsh that we are dealing with a virtual tie. A vastly more experienced McCain over Obama in foreign policy,weaker with Palin versus Biden. But none of the ''old pol'' in a Palin-Cheney,where it resurfaces when Biden is so compared. Inexperience or an undiplomatic big mouth. Alaska rookie. Or a K St. Good Ol' Boy.
Dean Rusk,Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Henry Stimson,Henry Cabot Lodge,Adlai Stevenson.

Yet none of these were ever vice presidents. Presidents leaped over their stage-set vice presidents and used these other men as the go-to guys of foreign affairs.[indeed,Johnson was absolutely no factor in the October 1962 missle crisis,with Kennedy,reaching not for his vice president in arguably one of the most dire moments in our history,but a bi-partisan group of ''wise men''. Ike shunted Nixon to the side same as JFK did Johnson].

All we can expect to learn tonight from 'Palin's' speech is how well she handles a teleprompter.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html

To the author I submit that Sarah Palin has already done the job she was meant to do and that is distract the press from any real issues. Since her selection was announced the media has talked about little else than the oddities of her remote life in Alaska. Once the distraction has run it's course she will be tearfully replaced by someone more palatable to the populace.
As for the religious aspect I believe that most people in the world are sick of religious groups shoving their beliefs down our collective throats. I know that the so called christian conservatives are sick of the radical muslims and the radical muslims no doubt are sick of the conservative christians. Depending of the time of day many people are sick of the jews policies. Here's news to all you people noble in your own eyes to your faith, the rest of the people in the world are sick of your bickering. We are sick of the turmoil you have created in this world we share. Most religions have some statement that God gave people free will, why can't you accept that? As for your beliefs, keep them to yourself, we each have our own personal beliefs. And I'll let you be in my world if you let me be in your world.

To the author I submit that Sarah Palin has already done the job she was meant to do and that is distract the press from any real issues. Since her selection was announced the media has talked about little else than the oddities of her remote life in Alaska. Once the distraction has run it's course she will be tearfully replaced by someone more palatable to the populace.
As for the religious aspect I believe that most people in the world are sick of religious groups shoving their beliefs down our collective throats. I know that the so called christian conservatives are sick of the radical muslims and the radical muslims no doubt are sick of the conservative christians. Depending of the time of day many people are sick of the jews policies. Here's news to all you people noble in your own eyes to your faith, the rest of the people in the world are sick of your bickering. We are sick of the turmoil you have created in this world we share. Most religions have some statement that God gave people free will, why can't you accept that? As for your beliefs, keep them to yourself, we each have our own personal beliefs. And I'll let you be in my world if you let me be in your world.

Palin is a poor pick for VP.and not because she's a woman. Because she has no experience in Federal level politics at all. And if 72 year old McCain goes the way of Reagan or even the way of the dodo..well guess who'll be in the oval office, a complete bloody novice.

I'm horrified that the Republican party has sunk so low.as to choose a no-name, nobody with no experience just to pander to a percieved demographic of ex-Hillary voters.
This woman shares none of HRC's ideas or ideals. In fact she doesn't appear to have any ideas, and precious few ideals either.

And if I needed proof that McCain underestimates and undervalues women this choice would be just about incontravertible proof. He doesn't bother to offer a QUALIFIED female canfidate, because he thinks anything with a vagina will do for women voters.

Guess again.

There is a basic truth underlying the idea that we get the leader(s) we deserve.

Yes, we vote (some of us) and the votes are counted (some of them) and on that basis individuals are put in office.

On a deeper, more absolute level there exists an unspoken yet powerful interaction between our elected officials and ALL of our citizens. We ALL get the leaders we deserve, whether we vote for them or not.

Within a very short time of entering office, the individual holding that office has no more say over what policies get enacted; their individual ideals and goals get subsumed into "the will of the people."

Therefore, it matters not who gets elected into office.

The entire expression of America's policies and participation on the world stage is tied to the condition of the American populace.

The world is as we are. We are awake and clear, our actions are considered and productive. We are tired and dull and ill, our efforts are more chaotic and life damaging.

Change the health and well-being of each of us, and collectively we succeed. Skip our sleep and clog our arteries and hinder ourselves with massive side effects from prescription drugs, and just look around.

Is this the America we want to be?

We can do so much better, starting with taking personal responsibility for everything in our lives, and allowing our neighbors to take responsibility for their own lives.

We gain so much more control over our lives by our spending so much less time sitting in judgment on our neighbors' choices as they utilize their rights to pursue life and liberty as they see fit.

I think you might want to check your facts Harley. Since entering the Senate John McCain has missed 16% of all votes, not 61%. Can you say dislexia? Not that it matters but Obama has missed 17% of the votes in his short tenure.

The truth is, McCain stepped off the straight talk express and sold his soul to the Bushites the day he conceded to GW in the primaries way back in 2000. You might be on to something though: I wonder if Bush confuses Shiites with Sunnis? He certainly doesn't need Joe Lieberman there to help him remember such things like McCain.

By the way, how can you be a true conservative and vote for this man? He's all about "nation building", and he's supported an economic policy that has run our dollar and country into the dirt for the past 8 years. He thinks Uncle Sam has the right to tell you whom you can and cannot marry. Those aren't conservative values. Then again, he is tooling around with Joe Lieberman, so how conservative can he be?

True conservatives better stick with Bob Barr this year.

I wonder.... is Obama signed up for the same foriegn affairs courses? It always amazes me to see simple people flock like sheep to an empty suit that serves up a good speach. Hundreds of ear mark requests per year, no real plans just a lot of "happy babble" about changing things. O yeah... your going to get planty of change all right..... can't wait to see this "unqualified woman" shred that dope Biden in their debate....

You could always take care of her the way you all took care of Hillary. Insult her and ridicule her out of the way. You only have 60 days, so be my guest. This is the most ridiculous prospect and to think she is being handled with kid gloves. Give her some of what the MSM gave Hillary; I dare you!!

None of the presidential candidates or vice-presidential candidates to my knowledge have served in the State Department and crafted foreign policy. Bush was elected in 2000 with the belief that U.S. should not be in the business of "nation building." Then 9/11 happened and we are now busy building nations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Voters have to choose a candidate that they most feel will exericise good judgment. Voters can base their decision on what the candidates say during an election cycle. Those canned responses are written by policy advisors and are not really what the candidate thinks, and surely will not reflect what that candidate, if elected, will actually do. Voters have to look at the decisions the candidate has made in their life both personal and professional in order to get a better appreciation of how that candidate may act if elected.