I dont need any. Im not running with McCain, she is. Unlike Palin, I would be woman enough to admit that I dont have the qualifications to run a country if the president were to die.
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Ok, then can any of you tell me how much more experienced Obama is then Palin?
He's a community organizer with very little time spent in Washington. Yet, he is praised and almost worshipped as the chosen one.
Then we have Palin who is the leader of one of our 50 states, yet she is pounced on by the media and folk like ya'll for not having enough experience for the VP spot.
How in the hell can this be justified? If the Dems had a candidate with experience that qualifies him/her to be President, then I could understand their using the experience issue against Palin, but when your own candidate has less experience than she, you can't justify your points. But..it is working in favor of the Obama camp, but only because the media is behind Obama 100%. If you don't believe that about the media, do some research and prove me wrong. I've done mine and that is the answer I came up with. For instance, watch the Today Show in the mornings. They are so obvious, it makes me sick.
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You'll be even more sick after Nov.5th TS.
Please excuse me for interjecting this amusing clip here ...
McCrazy, mistakenly, agrees with Obama
and then talks his way out of his gaffe with
his usual 'PATRIOTISM' & 'GOD LOVING' pitch.
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Does no one want to take a stab at answering my questions and concerns posted above?
I would truely love to hear the other side of this. The reply above is typical of those "without" an answer. Wisecracks really show ones ignorance. How about an adult conversation that may be helpful to others when making such an important decision as who our next leader will be? Although, it's most likely too late now. Obama supporters have gone this long without having to explain things. I think they will probably hold out 2 more weeks, just to be safe.
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they can't answer your question.
Mr. Hankey will.
Because they lie, distort, spin, & lie some more.
too bad no one calls them on it.
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Ok, then can any of you tell me how much more experienced Obama is then Palin?
He's a community organizer with very little time spent in Washington. Yet, he is praised and almost worshipped as the chosen one.
Then we have Palin who is the leader of one of our 50 states, yet she is pounced on by the media and folk like ya'll for not having enough experience for the VP spot.
How in the hell can this be justified? If the Dems had a candidate with experience that qualifies him/her to be President, then I could understand their using the experience issue against Palin, but when your own candidate has less experience than she, you can't justify your points. But..it is working in favor of the Obama camp, but only because the media is behind Obama 100%. If you don't believe that about the media, do some research and prove me wrong. I've done mine and that is the answer I came up with. For instance, watch the Today Show in the mornings. They are so obvious, it makes me sick.
-tech-support
You answered your own questions. <g>
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TS, I criticize Palin because I intend to vote for McCain and would have preferred that he make a wiser choice for his running mate. But for me, that VP choice makes me question his decisions. I'm not making any comment on Obama's qualifications or decisions because he's a non-issue for me.
If a mystery candidate would appear on the ballot in November, I might take a chance and vote for him/her. Neither of the choices gives me confidence in their abilities.
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Fair enough, Confused. I agree with most of what you said. While I appreciate your response, I really would like to hear from those that think Obama is more qualified than Palin. And if "qualifications" are so important, then who thinks that Obama is more qualified for this position than McCain?
Janedoe, can you elaborate a little on your response? I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that it "can not be justified" and is totally wrong to use "lack of experience" as a way to get votes for Obama, because it seems that this issue would work against him due to his lack of experience?
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I don't understand the whole "qualifications" and "experience" debate. This is a job that is like no other, so how does one have experience? Also, I would like for us as a country to get back to the point that being a politician is not a career but a temporary public service. That said, my issues with Palin have nothing to do with "experience" or "qualifications" and everything to do with her policies and her seemingly lack of knowledge which I think is different from experience.
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Can't argue with that IBV, but that is not what I'm hearing from others and the media, which is why I ask.
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I'm not sure I can answer your question either tech-support. I'm not sure there is an answer other than we live in a media driven political environment. The pundits of the MSM have decided that Governor Palin is totally unqualified in part because she is a conservative, pro-life, gun-toting Pentacostal Christian from Alaska. On the other hand Senator Obama is absolutely qualified to be President because he is from Chicago with a law degree from Harvard and he has organized communities with a little help from his friends like Bill Ayers and the Rev. Mr. Jeremiah Wright. Oh yeah and he traveled extensively in his youth and lived in Hawaii. I have no other explanation for this debate over who is or is not qualified to be POTUS. It has been generated by the media. The Constitution of the US says a candidate must be a natural born citizen of the US and age 35 or older. I think all parties' nominees meet those requirements. Once again the Founding Fathers laid down the rules with "murky clarity." (Thanks to James Kilpatrick for that great oxymoron.)
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...The Constitution of the US says a candidate must be a natural born citizen of the US and age 35 or older. I think all parties' nominees meet those requirements. Once again the Founding Fathers laid down the rules with "murky clarity." (Thanks to James Kilpatrick for that great oxymoron.) -merrymacsc
Obama is qualified. Palin is much less qualified IMO.
(see earlier message in thread)
Obama did, after all, beat the Clintons!
Do you think that McCain may not be qualified since he might not be a 'natural born citizen' unless he was born before the constitution was adopted?? :-)
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Yes I am saying that Obama is not qualified but he is going to - - most likely win - - for several reasons.
Obama is using the Kennedy method of getting elected. It has nothing to do with being qualified.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#Cuba_and_the_Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
Read what a lack of experience brought to us going back just that far. I had forgotten half of how we got where we are now beginning with that administration. Anyone remember the Bay of Pigs?
Is Sarah Palin qualified - she is a white female Obama. She uses the same tactics. The real issue is that one is running to run the country and one is running as the VP. Again, read the legacy of Kennedy and I liked him, but his inexpirience cost the country.
Who cares about her clothes? They look good and the money is better spent on that than negative ads. Snow boots and camouflage won't look good to an audience unless your in the South.
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Source ..
http://www.examiner.com/x-243-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m10d25-Sarah-Palins-going-rogue
Sarah Palin's 'GOING ROGUE'
by Jay McDonough,
Progressive Politics Examiner
All's not well in the McCain campaign. It was conjecture before, but now several campaign advisors have come forward claiming Sarah Palin is "going rogue", deliberately ignoring campaign strategy and drifting off message to better her chances of emerging as the new big gun in the Republican Party.
.. From CNN:
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
But this Palin source acknowledged that Palin is trying to take more control of her message, pointing to last week's impromptu news conference on a Colorado tarmac.
Tracey Schmitt, Palin's press secretary, was urgently called over after Palin wandered over to the press and started talking. Schmitt tried several times to end the unscheduled session.
"We acknowledge that perhaps she should have been out there doing more," a different Palin adviser recently said, arguing that "it's not fair to judge her off one or two sound bites" from the network interviews.
The Politico reported Saturday on Palin's frustration, specifically with McCain advisers Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt. They helped decide to limit Palin's initial press contact to high-profile interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
Hmmm, diva. When I think of a diva I think self-obsessed, not quite in touch with reality, grossly overconfident.
And while it may have been the McCain campaigns strategy to limit Ms. Palin's press contact to Gibson and Couric, it was Sarah Palin alone that sat there and gave those deer in headlight, banal, incomprehensible answers and very effectively shot herself in the foot.
It's almost as if Ms. Palin is unable to recognize her shortcomings.
Kinda like a diva.
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Diva?????????? Diva's are Aretha Franklin, The Devine Miss M, Barbra Streisand, and Sarah Brightman. A woman that can field dress a caribou does not qualify as a Diva but she might be a maverick <LOL> Palin's political ambition reminds me of Hillary's.
If all she got from his "rage" was a dirty look I'm disappointed, where was the explosion, the out of control violent outburst, the feared wrath? <LOL>
Real Diva's all over the world are shuddering at the thought. I forsee a Diva insurrection.
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'DIVA' also can mean 'PRIMA DONNA'.
I think the use of DIVA, in the above article, implies that Sarah Palin has a 'PRIMA DONNA COMPLEX' condition.
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The question is why didn't we pick Mitt Romney???
Mitt in 2012!
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MITT ROMNEY and Lindsay Graham as running mate, right?
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I really don't know how you could put Romney and Graham in the same sentence!
I am not an Obama supporter. But I don't like McCain's policies/stands either. Graham seems to have the same disregard of the Republican base that McCain has displayed. Illegal aliens, Federal judges, campaign reform, are just a few of the areas these two are joined at the hip on to the dismay of many including me. I think win or lose McCain has done more to bring down the Republican Party than anyone other than Richard Nixon.
I may vote for McCain because he is a better choice than any of the ones running against him (in any of the other parties). But that is not the case with "Flimsy" Graham. Graham will never again get my vote!
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