The Palin Gamble

Our VP candidate has more EXPERIENCE than your Presidential candidate. Someone explain to me how she dosen't.

The man McCain comes from a long lineage of warriors. His ancestry was resolute with war.
Hence the man was born into war.
As he runs his campaign, war is his touchstone to the people!

Born, raised and winding his life through in and about war he tells us his story...

Yet it does not seem to matter to him that the Vietnam War in which he served was an imperialistic nationalistic blunder to stop communism from taking over the world! The pro war hype of that era would have our nation believe we were in grave danger- "fear" was once again our guiding light!

I was there as a young boy. I witnessed this abomination of our nation going into that war- ???stop the communists, they are taking over the world!??? That was the word of the day. "The domino effect will..."

McCain, even to this day feels betrayed by the American peace movement as to why the Vietnam War was lost. This is familiar ground as the current American War culture (The GOP)has manifest itself once again in Iraq!

A war that warrior McCain said we needed and voted for! Yet another war that historically will go down as a political assignation of our constitution and our cultural beliefs! Another huge loss of national equity and the betrayal of our beloved youth all for the political ego and a lack of political wisdom!

Wars are won or lost by the rightness of the participants Mr. McCain!
As our nations history goes we have never lost a war when we were right but we have lost a war because we were ideologically wrong! Its not just about strength its about wisdom and justice!

McCains campaign video and speech are sequenced within his life of war.

Service, gratitude of and for his country is based on his war experience.

Then McCain's video biography sequences into his career as an AZ. senator.
Twenty-six years of senatorial time are blurred into nothingness!

His voting record parallels the GOP- a 10% difference from the GOP is supposed to define his presidency, define his given name the ???Maverick????

His record cannot be hidden, his ideology is full of contradiction-flip flops!

President Bush said, ???Im the War president, Im the War president!???

It most definitely seems there is another one named John McCain following in the wings!
I truly hope he is not the next!
And as Mccain portrays himself as different from "W" who do I see at the republican convention directing the RNC program? Karl Rove! McCain is the sams as Bush -the same divisive folks, same convention same idealology!

Clearly she is completely unqualified to be President - but that said, she was McCain's only chance to win since he was not going to get the middle. Now it's all about the base and usual stuff; fear mongering, they'll take your guns, gay people might get married, etc....

The best thing we can do is not get caught up in the soap opera disaster pick of Palin, which exposes McCain to be a man far more of calculation than integrity. Just ignore it and say the American people will decide if she's ready to be one heartbeat away from being the leader of the free world.

Go after McCain and his completely out of touch converntion (what a bunch of chest pounding!) I was literally born on the 4th of July and love this country as much as anyone - but these goons try to paint us as if we're against having the strongest military in the world - funny stuff. Oh yeah, and I heard a rumor that he was a P.O.W....(let's hear that a few hundred more times). We get it - we respect you - now please act honorably and stop using it every time you forget how many houses you have.

Ignore the distraction that is Palin - it's his only hope....Distraction, Distortion & Fear.

They don't think we're stupid.....They know it.

Obama / Biden 2008

Ever heard about the story - the dog in the manger? Hillary lost my respect when she failed to stand up to the DNC bullies and demand the right to present her case at the convention. No one got to finish line and so she earned that right (+35 years service and all). Now that she forfeited that right she is out there to stop another female from eclipsing her in the political realm? What is wrong with Sarah Palin? I have an Ivy League education - BSc, MSc, and MBA. And yet Sarah with what little she has have achieved a whole lot more than I have for her community. It is not what fancy degree you have is what you do with it. And all the folks who are crying her down are simply green with envy and resentment. I used to be for Hillary but now I am for Palin. My support of Hillary was limited but for Palin I will be actively engaged. It is time we allow real "blue" collar folks to actively engage and tell us exactly where they are hurting. As opposed to having pretenders like Biden (hanging on to imagined Scranton roots) and Obama giving empty speeches. Anyone for a class war? Then continue to cry down Palin. There are more folks of her economic standing as opposed to the folks like Obama who is the master of empty rhetoric. Oh ye of little faith, recall history had its Joan of Arc so I am confident Sarah Palin can get the job done. McCain/Palin 2008.

It is ironic that McCain wants to keep Sarah Palin away from the Press, but Sarah Palin is a Celebrity now and just like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears will be pursued by the Press and paparazzi! As you can see, Sentaor McCain, what goes around, Comes Around --God's Hand of Judgment is Swift! As you know McCain/Palin, Jesus was a Community Organizer and Pilate was a Governor (Hah!) so was George Bush, so much for Executive Experience...

Yes, Barack worked as a community organizer, but he also worked as a civil rights lawyer, taught constitutional law, 8 years as a Legislator in the state legislature, and 4 years in the US Senate, where he is currently a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee with Joe Biden (an almost carbon copy resume to the great, Abraham Lincoln, America's Greatest President)!

Barack Obama is more than qualified to lead and bring true and positive change to this nation. Barack Obama is an intellectual genuis who is committed to looking forward. He wants to talk about the Future, not about the Past, unlike McCain who is stuck in reverse and continues to focus on his horrible treatment as a POW when he was a very young man. However, he is much older now -- that was a long time ago. McCain voted for authorization of the Iraq War, McCain wants to stay chained to the past, to foreign oil - drill, drill, drill, oil which pollutes the environment and refuses to seriously look at cleaner alternative energies. And, McCain certainly does not want to talk about the fact that Maverick McCain is code for the fact that McCain loves to gamble, loves the gaming tables and that is really who McCain is today!

By the way,it seems that our Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, who could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency seems, to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints at the University of Idaho before graduating from there in 1987.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/...

Pallin is Athena, Aphrodite, and Diana in one. That old goat Biden don't have a chance. Beh. Beh. Beh.

"she is the most thinly credentialed vice presidential contender since Dan (potato with an "e") Quayle, who was put on the ticket in '88 because the old guard thought a good-looking first-term senator could attract young voters."

Hmmm... Quayle sounds a little like Obama... except he actually wants to be President instead of Vice President...

Plus, that she says she'll be our 'advocate' in the White House? Puleeze!!....she cut funding for special needs in Alaska by 60%!!! Give me a break, will you!?! Do you think I'm stupid and not going to do my research before I vote for her just because she might have a special needs son -- who they tossed about from piller to post on the stage after her speech like he was a football?
Wow!!!! How sad that most of America will never know that!!! How sad that the Republican party will bury that fact!!! Along with so many other sad and sorry facts about Sarah Palin. Ugh!!!! Why would you pick someone when you know, and your party has admitted, that she is not ready to serve as commander and chief?????
I am a worry. I was a working mom. My son is a dad now and he is a stay home dad while working on his masters degree. Please let there be a change for my new grandbaby. I pray that America sees that we need Obama for President.

BRYE.....you're laughable. You're actually comparing Quayle with Obama. If you are then you are an idiot. My casual guess is that Repukicans have a lower percentage of graduating high school and college then Demmys. Repukicans are just so shallow in their level of perception. It's apalling. How many people have noticed that?

if palin isn't qualified for the presidency, how in the name of all that is honest and fair can you ever suggest that obama is ready? for crying out loud, you're in love with his idealogy, not his experience or proven record. no different for palin.
i mean, NONE.

so please explain the hypocrisy. be as nuanced as you like.

I have a wonderful 17-year-old Down Syndrome son and I am quite involved in my community of 'special' parents and children. I, too, have been a full-time working mother (and a single one for the past 10 years, to boot!), and I truly believe that even though Sarah Palin is most capable of raising children, she probably cannot even begin to comprehend all the things her young son, Trig, is going to require his entire life -- and it starts immediately at birth. Let me say that even with family to all gather together and help in all ways they can that she, as the mother, is still going to be spending way more hours with that son than she probably did with all her other children combined. It's just a fact. And Sarah Palin cannot yet fathom that, what with her son being only 4 months old. Plus, that she says she'll be our 'advocate' in the White House? Puleeze!!....she cut funding for special needs in Alaska by 60%!!! Give me a break, will you!?! Do you think I'm stupid and not going to do my research before I vote for her just because she might have a special needs son -- who they tossed about from piller to post on the stage after her speech like he was a football?

Sour grapes eh Clift?

Yet another professor,[this one, of the humanities at UC Fresno,Victor Davis Hanson,bestselling author of ''A War Like No Other: Greece and Sparta in the Pelleponesian War''] raked Clift up one side and down the other for her dross garbage aimed at Palin,in which she has formed a triumverate of Macbeths witches,with fellow whiner Gloria Steinhem and NEWSWEAKS other whiner,Sally Quinn,whose invective made Joe McCarthy look like a boy scout. [for this is what it is at the end of the day. McCarthyism,and it stinks,especially coming from those who purport to be ''the press'',who are supposed to stand against such garbage. Not further it ].

www.pajamasmedia.com ''Works and Days'' Article by Prof. Victor D.Hanson,Sept.04,2008.

The reason I love Sarah Palin is she shares my views on all the issues. Period. She shares the same views on the issues as half of the country! That's why her words are in the estimation of Obama's campaign manager "divisive." It's because we're divided. That's a good thing. I don't want universal healthcare. I don't want the government taxing the hell out of my future employers or, God forbid, any capital gains I actually earn should I ever climb out of my lower/middle class hole. Just because you're in a blue state does not mean that you have the best ideas on how to fix problems. Obama is a socialist. I don't want him signing legislation in the White House. Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party and it's because she shares my philosophies.

What do you not see about Obama. It worked his way up from nothing, he went to Columbia, political science major and international relations. He taught at Chicago Law school, Constitutional Law, he practiced as a civil rights lawyer. At Havard law school he was elected editor of law review after his first year because of his grades, 2nd year he was elected president of Harvard law review he graduated magna *** laude. He has lived in Hawaii, Indonesia, New York city, california, and chicago. The community service he has done that the republicans mock he set job training, college prep tutoring took a budget of 70,000 and turned it to 400,000 being able to serve so many more people. He directed Project Vote which was so successful he was named by Crains Business as one of the best up and coming. This doesn't even include what he has on in the legislative office and the us senate. He his sharp and has experience at all levels with people. He understands how to rally and get people involved and together. Do not uderestimate what he can do. Palin Grew up in Alaska, majored in communications at Iowa and went back to Alaska.