McCain's Tricky Calculation

All I saw tonight was attacks! Where were the issues and lies! Tonight was suppose to be the night she made her case for being VP and what did she say? How is she on health care, the environment, energy bedsides oil? What is she going to do about foreign relations?
I have herd the republicans saying it should be clear why she was picked, how is it clear? What did she clear up tonight? All she cleared up is that she can attack Obama, but how is she on the issues???

Yes, I am considered an independent. I watched both the Democratic convention and now the Republican convention. I have to say I'm not impressed with McCain's choice of Sarah Palin. I also found the Republican speeches to be overly negative. Too much bashing of the Democrats and not enough information about what they (Republicans) plan to do. I think McCain is too much of a maverick and too unpredictable. Very scary in today's times.

So your logic, if you want to be humurous and call it that, is Obama's experience credentials for being president are the fact that he has been running for president. Now that makes sense. As far as Palin compared to Biden, I admit there isn't one, but they are on the ticket as veep not number one so saying that Biden makes up for Obama is like saying that you would vote for me because my brother would be great for the job. If under the remote chance anything were to happen to McCain while in office Sarah will be prepared by that time. Don't compare her votes as mayor when she was elected for governor and don't compare votes for a primary as the qualifications as winning an election. You are truly showing yourself either prejuduce to a particular party, women, or blatantly an ignorant journalist.

Seems like there is just more untrue statements and baffling us with bs as Bush has tried to do over the years. In my opinion. Do John McCain and Sarah Palin HAVE a plan???? for this country? Seems they are so busy making up UNTRUE statements about Obama and Biden that their message isn't coming through and the women appear to me IN MY oopinion to be reacting like 'stepford' wives.

WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS????? whew... I hope the voting machines are counting fairly because if the Republicans are selected, once again, to run this country.... we will all be growing our own gardens and in the poor house... and the war will go on for 100 years...

Obama's potential foreign relations potential is light-years ahead of McCain's- Obama has an open mind, is inquisitive, demonstrates keen intellect, CONTROLS HIS TEMPER, and is quite popular throughout the globe. Remember how on a hot day in Berlin 200,000 Germans who can't even vote came out to here him? All the while a dozen or so folks meet John McCain IV when he stops his bus. Only Mr. Obama can restore respect to the United States with its partners throughout the world; Mr. McCain doesn't seem to give a darn & appears to still have some dangerous baggage. Oh, & did I mention McCain has difficulty controlling his temper? Not good.

Obama's potential foreign relations potential is light-years ahead of McCain's- Obama has an open mind, is inquisitive, demonstrates keen intellect, CONTROLS HIS TEMPER, and is quite popular throughout the globe. Remember how on a hot day in Berlin 200,000 Germans who can't even vote came out to here him? All the while a dozen or so folks meet John McCain IV when he stops his bus. Only Mr. Obama can restore respect to the United States with its partners throughout the world; Mr. McCain doesn't seem to give a darn & appears to still have some dangerous baggage. Oh, & did I mention McCain has difficulty controlling his temper? Not good.

This "executive level" silliness is absurd. Anybody who can run a campaign to get elected as a U.S. Senator, let alone become a major party's candidate, beating the most ruthless and well connected of opponents (Hillary), has executive skills. I'll take Obama's four years in the U.S. Senate, eight years in the Illinois Legislature plus his ten years as an attorney over angry old McCain's 30 mostly useless years spent languishing in the halls of the Senate. And anybody that tries to sell us that Mrs. Palin's stint as Wasilly town proctor & the fill-in replacement gov of the great desolate state of Alaska provided experience valuable to national office is grossly exaggerating. Just look at how well 2 terms as gov of texas has helped George W- absolute worst presidency in the history of our great nation.

This is not about Sarah Palin, it is about McCain and his decision making. As far as Palin goes, even Bush was popular 20 months after he took office; it took years for the problems to surface. Palin has virtually no experience and is completely untested. She is tending to a disabled infant. She will be totally ineffective in any capacity as Vice President. Woe to the country if McCain develops age-related problems during his term.
The real issue is why McCain chose someone as inexperienced as Palin. Clearly, he is pandering to women, but there are plenty of qualified women he could have chosen. Perhaps he wanted a blank sheet, with no baggage to deal with and no positions to defend. Maybe he's also pandering to the far right. Maybe, he's 72 and he's showing his age in a frightening manner.
Whatever his reasons, one thing is clear. The maverick of the 20th century retired some time ago. McCain is vanilla and doing everything he can to ingratiate himself with the right-wing while making very poor decisions along the way.

My 17 year old daughter has more international experience than Sarah Palin. That should concern everyone. The notion that she is more experienced than Obama as a laughable fiction, dished up by party operatives for the consumption of the faithful.

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McCains Big Gamble all rides on Sarah Palin being able to preform tonight. If she flops, well there goes the election. If she hits a home run., McCain might have a chance. This is the moment of truth. They also have alot of info on Palin at the veep http://www.theveep.com

CNN) ??? Prominent Republican analysts Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy became the latest victims of an open microphone Wednesday, caught after a segment on MSNBC trashing John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, and Murphy, a campaign strategist and onetime aide to John McCain, can both be heard expressing disbelief with the pick of Palin after they apparently thought they were in a commercial break.

???I come out of the blue swing-state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney,??? Murphy said during the mishap which has since been posted on YouTube. Murphy later flatly says of the pick, "It's not going to work."

Noonan is heard going even further, saying of the presidential race, "It's over."

"I think they went for this ??? excuse me??? political bulls???t about narratives," Noonan also said. "Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it."

Murphy, who was a senior adviser to John McCain's 2000 presidential bid, also adds, "You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."