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I think Sarah Palin can't even run her own family let a lone run this country. She has five kids who need a mom. She should take the time to raise her kids after all this is the job she signed up for by having children.
I don't agree with her politics in any way shape or form. She is NO Hillary not even close. I think she will just hurt the McCain's
party.
UPDATED: John McCain Picks Gov. Sarah Palin As VP
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John McCain picks Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Here is the video. I will update this post with my opinion, and the opinion of others, very soon. In the mean time, please tell me what you think in comments.
UPDATE: MORE ON SARAH PALIN AS VP... Sarah Palin on energy, environment, and national security... Sarah Palin seemed confused about the responsibilities of a VP... Cafferty on Sarah Palin as VP... Sarah Palin Acceptance Speech... Sarah Palin interview for MTV... Back in February, on Super Tuesday, MTV News Street Teamer Dani Carlson did a Flixwagon interview with Alaska Governor â€" and now presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate â€" Sarah Palin, who had some interesting things to say about energy policy and the "party machinery." In this interview, Palin calls controversial Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul "cool." "He's a good guy," she added. "He's so independent. He's independent of the party machine. I'm like, 'Right on, so am I.' " Gov. Schwarzenegger on Sarah Palin for VP... Now, what the bloggers are saying... From Feministing... So McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She's young -- 44 -- and a self-described "hockey mom." Because Palin is relatively unknown on the national level (she's been governor since 2006, and before that was mayor of a town of 8,000 people), a lot of people are already identifying this as a ploy to snag the votes of disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters. I don't know whether that's true (my guess is yes), but it's my sense that Hillary backers who don't like Obama are not going to like a McCain/Palin ticket much better. Let me say right off the bat that, overall, I think it's great that Republicans have chosen to elevate a woman to this level -- no matter what their motivations. I want to see more women of all parties involved in politics. But, as we stated over and over in the primaries, a politician's gender isn't everything. It's merely one factor to be considered. And quite frankly, Palin's political views suck. First up, she's super anti-choice. The forced-pregnancy crowd is thrilled today! (She recently had her fifth child, who has Down's syndrome.) She's against marriage equality and supports a federal gay-marriage ban, but has made sure to note that she "has gay friends." Though she has signed on to same-sex partner benefits. She believes schools should teach creationism. She's also pretty terrible on environmental issues, and is a huge advocate of drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Plus, she's embroiled in a scandal... From ParentDish... It's been a week of historical firsts in United States politics! Yesterday's nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee marks the first time in U.S. history an African-American has been chosen to be a contender for the position of president of the United States. And earlier today, John McCain made Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and mother of five, his choice for vice president. While Palin is not the first woman to be selected as a running mate, (that honor belongs to Geraldine Ferraro), she is the first to do it with a baby at home. Palin's youngest son Trig is only ten months old! The photogenic Palin has appeared in Vogue magazine, but she's definitely not a wimpy woman. The Alaskan governor returned to work a mere three days after giving birth to Trig, and her hobbies include hunting and ice fishing (one of the most frigid and miserable ways I've ever spent an afternoon) and is facing the deployment of her oldest son to Iraq in September. From The Huffington Post... But is she ready to be commander-in-chief? Unlike Barack Obama, whom McCain has so emphatically condemned as not-ready, Palin hasn't run for or served in the Senate. Nor has she run for president, which would have required her to think through and take positions on critical issues from the war in Iraq to the war on terror, from Iran's nuclear ambitions to the Russian incursion into Georgia, from the emerging power of China to the march of globalization. She hasn't debated tough opponents a dozen or so times or faced aggressive, often downright hostile reporters on a daily basis. Talk about untested. Her slim record undermines one of McCain's most effective arguments against Obama. Clearly, McCain thinks Palin will help him among women, particularly those disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters who are having so much trouble "getting over it." It just shows how clueless the McCain camp actually is. Unlike Clinton and Ferraro, Palin hasn't been a strong national voice on women's issues. She hasn't been at the barricades, fighting for women's health, equal pay, economic security. And she certainly hasn't had anything to say about the national-security issues that are also important to women across the political spectrum. Does the McCain camp really expect pro-choice Democratic and independent women to be swayed by a sleight-of-gender? From AlterNet... So, McCain's chosen Alaska's 44 year-old Governor Sarah Palin -- forced childbirth activist, creationist and former beauty queen -- to be his running mate. Here's what folks are saying ... Booman gives us some good background on Palin. She smoked pot but didn't like it. She rides snowmobiles and does like it. Elizabeth Benjamin notes the governer's lack of experience and asks whether she's going to be the next Dan Quayle. Kos, noting that she's a dedicated creationist -- evolution's just a theory, you know -- points out the obvious: her role is to rally the white evangelical base. Steve Benen -- the ever-prolific and early-rising Steve Benen -- has two posts up that are worth perusing. He thinks Palin is an extremely odd choice, given McCain's strategy of emphasizing experience and calls the pick an act of desperation. On HuffPo, they're re-running a piece by Chris Kelly, who says Palin's the next Dick Cheney because "she can look you in the eye and tell you black is white." Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog predicts a 180-degree turn from those disaffected "PUMAs" -- Clinton dead-enders -- who have been warning that the choice of any other woman as a running mate by anyone ever would be the worst sort of treachery to women everywhere. August 29, 2008 -- Posted by Catherine Morgan |
Emily A.
Monday September 1, 2008, 7:33 PM
I would just like to comment on Charlene M's comments and am so doing in this fashion because she is not receiving comments on her comments: thank you very much for a good laugh! I cannot believe that there is such a person out there like you. You have left my sister and I speechless.
Charlene M.
Monday September 1, 2008, 4:35 PM
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN...HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, OH YES MAYBE OBAMA CAN WALK ON WATER TOO...HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA,
McCAIN IS READY TO LEAD!
SARAH PALIN A GREAT CHOICE!
MCCAIN AS ALWAYS BEEN READY TO LEAD FROM DAY ONE!
McCAIN IS READY TO LEAD!
SARAH PALIN A GREAT CHOICE!
MCCAIN AS ALWAYS BEEN READY TO LEAD FROM DAY ONE!
Charlene M.
Monday September 1, 2008, 4:09 PM
STOP BLAMING ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ON BUSH! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME A PRESIDENT GIVE BACK A REBATE CHECK! THERE ARE 535 MEMBERS IN CONGRESS AND THE THREE OF THEM, BIDEN, HILLARY AND OBAMA ARE CROOKS!
VOTE: MCCAIN AND PALIN
VOTE: MCCAIN AND PALIN
Charlene M.
Monday September 1, 2008, 4:01 PM
GUESS WHAT OBAMA HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY - IN FACT HE DOES NOT VOTE ON THE ISSUES! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, FACT - HE DOES BELONG TO A RACIST CHURCH OF OVER 20 YEARS! HE IS A LAIR FROM HEAD TO TOE!
MCCIAN IS ONE YEAR OLDER THAN RONALD REAGAN AND HE SERVED TWO TERMS! MCCAIN HAS EXPERIENCE AND IS READY TO LEAD FROM DAY 1. HILLARY AND BIDEN HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ON CAMERA BACKING THAT UP!
I AM PROUD TO BE WHITE! I WAS OFFENDED WITH OBAMA'S DNC SPEECH WITH TONS OF OVER-TONES OF RACISM - I AM WHITE HIS SPEECH OFFENDED ME! THE DAY HE PICKED TO GIVE THAT SPEECH MLK DAY-OFFENDED ME! HIS "CHANGE" IS ABOUT BLACK "CHANGE" COULD IT BE ANY MORE IN THE OPEN. IF HE WOULD OF PICKED HILLARY HE WOULD OF LOST MANY OF HIS BLACK VOTERS! OBAMA, DID NOT PUT OUR COUNTRY FRIST HE PUT HIS OWN PEOPLE FIRST-HE PICKED SIDES ALONG TIME AGO AND THAT'S ALL OVER YOUTUBE! HILLARY GIVE HER SPEECH TO THE PARTY SHE OWES 20 MILLION DEBT - SHE ALSO DID NOT PUT HER COUNTRY FIRST!
I HAVE LOST ALL RESPECT FOR HILLARY - AS IT SHOULD BE! JOB BIDEN HAS BEEN IN CONGRESS THE LONGEST HIS WHOLE FAMILY WORKS IN GOVERNMENT! HE HAS COSTED TAX PAYERS MILLIONS OF LOSS DOLLARS- WHEN HE RAN IN THE PRIMARIES HE RECEIVED LESS THAN 2 PERCENT OF THE VOTES WHEN HE RAN AGAINST HILLARY AND OBAMA! NO BAMANATION!
NOW I AM VOTING FOR MCCAIN - AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE FIRST TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY FOR THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE VICE-PRESIDENT! SARAH PALIN IS WHAT WE NEED AND SHE'S NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK UP- EXCELLENT ORATOR!
MCCIAN IS ONE YEAR OLDER THAN RONALD REAGAN AND HE SERVED TWO TERMS! MCCAIN HAS EXPERIENCE AND IS READY TO LEAD FROM DAY 1. HILLARY AND BIDEN HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ON CAMERA BACKING THAT UP!
I AM PROUD TO BE WHITE! I WAS OFFENDED WITH OBAMA'S DNC SPEECH WITH TONS OF OVER-TONES OF RACISM - I AM WHITE HIS SPEECH OFFENDED ME! THE DAY HE PICKED TO GIVE THAT SPEECH MLK DAY-OFFENDED ME! HIS "CHANGE" IS ABOUT BLACK "CHANGE" COULD IT BE ANY MORE IN THE OPEN. IF HE WOULD OF PICKED HILLARY HE WOULD OF LOST MANY OF HIS BLACK VOTERS! OBAMA, DID NOT PUT OUR COUNTRY FRIST HE PUT HIS OWN PEOPLE FIRST-HE PICKED SIDES ALONG TIME AGO AND THAT'S ALL OVER YOUTUBE! HILLARY GIVE HER SPEECH TO THE PARTY SHE OWES 20 MILLION DEBT - SHE ALSO DID NOT PUT HER COUNTRY FIRST!
I HAVE LOST ALL RESPECT FOR HILLARY - AS IT SHOULD BE! JOB BIDEN HAS BEEN IN CONGRESS THE LONGEST HIS WHOLE FAMILY WORKS IN GOVERNMENT! HE HAS COSTED TAX PAYERS MILLIONS OF LOSS DOLLARS- WHEN HE RAN IN THE PRIMARIES HE RECEIVED LESS THAN 2 PERCENT OF THE VOTES WHEN HE RAN AGAINST HILLARY AND OBAMA! NO BAMANATION!
NOW I AM VOTING FOR MCCAIN - AND THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE FIRST TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY FOR THE FIRST WOMAN TO BE VICE-PRESIDENT! SARAH PALIN IS WHAT WE NEED AND SHE'S NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK UP- EXCELLENT ORATOR!
Brinda G.
Monday September 1, 2008, 3:23 PM
I would like to remind everyone that the
"Theys, Thems, & all the evil people who elected Bush: are their neighbors, friends, fellow church members, people they meet at the grocery store, ETC. They are everywhere! Bush stole the first election but he won the second one by a "MAJORITY". There are more things about Sarah Palin that I like, than I dislike. She does not play by party rules for one.
"Theys, Thems, & all the evil people who elected Bush: are their neighbors, friends, fellow church members, people they meet at the grocery store, ETC. They are everywhere! Bush stole the first election but he won the second one by a "MAJORITY". There are more things about Sarah Palin that I like, than I dislike. She does not play by party rules for one.
Judith Rosen
Sunday August 31, 2008, 12:49 PM
I find it isulting, that Senator McCain chose Governor Palin as a running mate. It only reinforces how out of touch he is by believing women will vote for an ultra right conservative ,who is 180 degress away from Senator Clinton's polices (forget about the experience), simply because she is a woman.
Connie B.
Sunday August 31, 2008, 10:01 AM
I’m suspect of a woman who has a husband, 5 children, is congenial, appealing and
given high marks as Governor of Alaska thinking that this qualifies her to be Vice President of the United States. I say suspect of her because I don’t think John McCain knows what he’s doing (having met this woman once). I
don’t know who directing him with this choice but it doesn’t make sense to me, unless you see oil, oil, etc. Then too, if Dick Cheney could disappear from the public’s view, Palin will be able to do the same. It’s also troubling when I cannot determine where one draws the line between family and country especially when you have a large, young (including an infant) family. I just don’t think this is Sarah Palin’s time. I don’t think it’s Americas’ time..
given high marks as Governor of Alaska thinking that this qualifies her to be Vice President of the United States. I say suspect of her because I don’t think John McCain knows what he’s doing (having met this woman once). I
don’t know who directing him with this choice but it doesn’t make sense to me, unless you see oil, oil, etc. Then too, if Dick Cheney could disappear from the public’s view, Palin will be able to do the same. It’s also troubling when I cannot determine where one draws the line between family and country especially when you have a large, young (including an infant) family. I just don’t think this is Sarah Palin’s time. I don’t think it’s Americas’ time..
Tuesday September 9, 2008, 11:33 AM
Is that really someone we want in the White House?