Oh, and also she has no qualifications or experience to be VP, I forgot that part. Duh...

Speaking only for myself, the fact of questioning Palin's ability is not the point I'm trying to make, it is the timing of this whole deal. How many mothers can deny the effects of childbearing on their body and mental state? Especially someone in their mid-40s. In articles I have read so far, she has stated she already gets little sleep, she's late for meetings due to her family commitments...I can't answer for anyone else, but I would never question a father's ability or responsibility to parent as well or better than a woman. They certainly can parent effectively and many times better. That is not the point. And cut out the sexist comments and listen to the facts. Obama's kids are older, they are not babies.  If Palin were to run for this office 5 years from now, or even 3, I would likely jump on her bandwagon.  But how ridiculous to do it now, when anyone who has borne a child knows, her stamina and physical condition are surely not the greatest after only 4 months,  and add to that the stress of her daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy and upcoming birth of a first grandchild that will be only  months younger than her own child, a son in Iraq, the ethics charges from her governorship...the list goes on. Any one of these things is a big life-changing deal in itself bringing loads of stress to a family. Is she going to come to work fresh and totally focused on her duties at hand in the second highest office in this country... uh, I would guess probably NOT. So the fact that she is willing to even consider this position at this time in her life seems to me to be pretty irrational and basically selfish. Her whole family is going to suffer from all the exposure and delving into personal issues as all politicians' families do, with or without children. Yes, people with children can govern effectively, men or women, but that doesn't mean they all should. In Palin's case, quit trying to prove that a woman can do it....in my mind a woman certainly CAN, but the timing is all wrong for it to be her.

First, let me say I was a Hillary supporter and will now vote Obama.  Having said that, I feel the need to address all these people questioning Palin's ability because she is a mother.  That the children will suffer, or her ability to govern will suffer....although I feel she is not the right person for the VP role, what the heck does it matter if she has children?? She has a husband, who seems capable of raising children too.  No one questions why Obama will have a hard time being President and raising 2 small children.  Enough with the sexist attitudes, please.

to Olderwiser...

The facts that were not right were Butterface stating that Palin had a baby at 46 when in fact Palin is 44 yrs old.  That is what I am referring to.

to Mrzoid... A lot of us are grandparents and we still manage to function in our daily lives just fine. I became a grandmother a year ago and it isn't a distraction it is true bliss. Grandchildren are tons more fun than having your own kids.  Since becoming a grandmother I have managed to still work my 2 jobs just fine.  Besides having a husband to help care for Palin's children, Palin's grandchild will have two parents to  for THEIR child.

to Olderwiser...

The facts that were not right were Butterface stating that Palin had a baby at 46 when in fact Palin is 44 yrs old.  That is what I am referring to.

to Mrzoid... A lot of us are grandparents and we still manage to function in our daily lives just fine. I became a grandmother a year ago and it isn't a distraction it is true bliss. Grandchildren are tons more fun than having your own kids.  Since becoming a grandmother I have managed to still work my 2 jobs just fine.  Besides having a husband to help care for Palin's children, Palin's grandchild will have two parents to  for THEIR child.

to Olderwiser...

The facts that were not right were Butterface stating that Palin had a baby at 46 when in fact Palin is 44 yrs old.  That is what I am referring to.

to Mrzoid... A lot of us are grandparents and we still manage to function in our daily lives just fine. I became a grandmother a year ago and it isn't a distraction it is true bliss. Grandchildren are tons more fun than having your own kids.  Since becoming a grandmother I have managed to still work my 2 jobs just fine.  Besides having a husband to help care for Palin's children, Palin's grandchild will have two parents to  for THEIR child.

So, Palin's 17yr old daughter is pregnant.  Thats great, throw one more thing on the pile of life distractions for her.  Im sorry, but her family wouldnt be a distraction from the role of president, the role of president would be a distraction from her family!!  Dont try to tell me she is #2 on the ticket; she'd be behind the oldest, most health challenged (yes, i do consider multiple bouts with cancer problematic for a 72yr old), likely to be incopasitated or die, candidate ever.  Let's see, child going to war, infant with downs syndrom, pregnant child, and two other children who have the problems of being children!! Plus, SHE HAS NO EXPERIENCE DEALING WITH ANY NATIONAL ISSUES!!! Self admissions from Palin: No military knowledge, no foreign policy knowledge, no knowledge as to what being VP means, no expetise on domestic problems outside of Alaska.  She's a woman though, and she's pretty for a 44yr old, and she's pro-life and anti-gay, and she loves jesus.

Good for you John McCain, you figured out that you have no chance winning with the issues at hand, so you nominated a human wedge issue.  Thank god you still dont have a chance; but damn you for even putting your lust for the presidency before the people of this country.

Let's see, loriw, we are ignorant because our facts are not straight. The fact that you begin with that we do not have straight is "the fact that Mc Cain's pick of Palin solidified my vote". Gosh, Loriw, where could we have discovered this straight fact and not have blown you away with our ignorance? I read the newspaper this morning and it certainly wasn't there.

Goodness, calm down. These posts do nothing but make people even more defensive of their positions which accomplishes....what? I made a mistake in not taking more time to craft my earlier comments, which were nothing but a personal musing. Actually, loriw, I am neither ignorant, nor misinformed, and on one point I agree with you, a college education, no matter what degree level, is not necessarily better than "street smarts". The fact that you are so quick to jump to assumptions about what I think or believe is what frightens me about this country right now. You assume I "have devotion" for Obama and Hillary, you assume I thought Palin should have aborted her baby, you assume I'm not a mother who has a career......continue to assume people think a certain way because they have a label of Democrat or Republican, it puts everyone in a niche where you can judge them as right or wrong. The statements about how Obama thinks, the brilliance of McCain's pick, you've got it all figured out. Thanks for thinking it all through so I don't have to.

The ignorance in the posts below just blows me away.  They drip with sexism and mis-information. Before you all post you need to get your basic facts straight. I hardly know were to begin so let me start with the fact that McCain's pick of Palin solidified my vote for their ticket.  Palin as a pick is genius and you people that cling to your devotion to Obama and to Hillary will be saying "WTH happened?" on Nov 4 when McCain and Palin win.  You all underestimate Palin and that is just what McCain would like you to do. So far besides the obvious sexism such as in Realseller below seems to be the biggest miscalculation of all. How can a woman have a child and still have a career?  Look around you it's happening every where!  More women with children work than those that have children and don't work...hello! And guess what...they vote.  Palin has a very capable husband who can assist with raising the children...that is unless all you sexist out there also think that men are incapable of being a parent beyond sperm donation!  To those that say that you don't think she should have given birth to a child with Downs like realseller and Alamerica you are too really, really ignorant and hard hearted individuals.  Kids and adults with Downs tend to be some of the most happy people I have ever met since the do not judge others by color, religion, nationality, age or sex.  They universally love everyone unconditionally.  What a lesson you 2 could learn from them!  It is not a crime to give birth to a child with Downs but last I knew it was a crime to not provide medical care for an infant that was born alive, no matter if it was planned or unplanned or the product of a botched late term abortion.  Now Obama has a legislative record of stating that a baby born alive should be left to die because it is "too burdensome" (his words not mine) to require an abortionist to make one phone call to another doctor who could provide care for the abandoned baby.  So Obama thinks infanticide should be legal. Next Obama will move us toward Euthanasia of the elderly, the mentally ill, the medically very challenged and mentally disabled.   No wonder realseller and Alamerica support Obama, they have no regard for a baby's life either. The same reason that Obama has so little regard for born alive infants and his step brother who lives on less than $10.00/year is because neither one of them can vote. Obama talks a good talk....if he has a teleprompter but he doesn't walk the walk.  Obama's campaign and supporters want to bash McCain as being senile but McCain didn't introduce Palin as the next POTUS,  McCain didn't say he'd been to 57 states, McCain didn't say he was in Saint Louis and Kansas City at the same time.  McCain ran circles around Obama in the Warren forum while Obama said he's going to consult his wife and grandmother if he is POTUS and deciding when life begins is "above his pay grade".  Speaking of pay grade. Obama wants =pay for =work between men and women yet he has no women in power positions on his campaign and the women he does have...it's reported that they are paid less then men in similar positions.  As far as education goes...I would take Palins 4 years of university education + "street smarts" that she has gotten as  governor over Obama's Harvard education and "done nothing of any significance since except vote "Present" any day.  He!! I don't have a Harvard education, I have just your usual college education but I could get elected in my state and vote "Present" that takes no skill at all.

You all just keep underestimating Palin....she and McCain will be laughing all the way to the White House.  The women I work with and who I've been talking too LOVE Palin and they actually vote!  Half of the people I see vote are women...go figure.  The outdoors-men, hunters and fishermen where my husband works LOVE her too.  Yep, you all just keep underestimating this ticket....just like the incumbants that Palin beat the pants off in the Alaskan elections did!  

I was finally glad to read a comment which touched on the fact that Palin has a baby, let alone a baby with special needs, but other children as well at home. What woman in her right mind would choose to desert her family for the pressures of this position??? The statement she made that she had given birth on Mon. and was back at work on Tues. says a lot to me about family values and ambition. I consider myself a strong feminist, but Palin's cavalier attitude concerning women's choice scares me to death. It's not okay to keep a child from coming into a world where it is unwanted, but it's okay to leave your baby while your body is still going through major hormonal changes???? I'm afraid to even touch on the political repercussions of this choice of McCain's, just the fact that she is so ready to sacrifice her family frightens me enough.

Well Crob67, I have already voted for Obama in the primary and will vote for him again in November. I also have a high respect for Hillary Clinton and her sidekick, Bill. I have watched the Mc Cain bloggers try to cut the Hillary voters out of the herd with a feeble attempt to keep them upset because Hillary did not get the nomination. It's just too far to jump, though, from the Hillary side of life to the Mc Cain side where the current mess resides. It is also entertaining to watch Mc Cain try to convince voters that he is for any meaningful change from the crap that we have endured for eight years. It's all that he can do, though, outside of forming a third party in mid campaign.

I have seen many different administrations in this life and they all get corrupt to a degree after being in power too long. The Democrats will win this one. But, they have the same challenge as all of them, and that is how to keep power without letting it get overused. Just wait long enough and your guys will be back with another change in a few years. Cheers, nothing personal. It's just the way of life and I can see it.

This isnt a "who id like to bone" contest, its our country. If it were a "who id like to bone" contest, she wins, hands down, or up, or any way she wants, but we arent at hooters, or Sturgis, we are at a defining time for america; hardly the time for a sideshow.

Olderwise, I just hope you get out and vote, and not sulk as many of Hillary's loyalists have personally indicated to me.  Hill's run for the Hill is over... for now.  Don't give Johhny what he wants by staying home this November.  Let's ensure hat Hillary has a shot at the Cabinet or Supreme Court.

Hillary supporters are as likely to accept Mrs. Palin as a substitute for the highly accomplished Senator from New York as they would accept Dan Quayle as a substitute for Ronald Reagan. Methinks that Crob67 might have sold the intellect of the Hillary voter a mite short. There was a long relationship between Hillary and her dedicated followers.s There is hardly time to substitute. It is too far from Alaska and the Senate and will take too long to fill the Hillary shoe. Barefoot in the snows of Alaska might say it best.

Consult George Carlin, he will explain John McCains strategy from beyond the grave.

Folks, you have all forgotten...this is not about what is best for America, it is what will get McCain elected.  Deep in his heart, McCain and his advisors know that she is not the most qualified veep candidate, but she has the best shot at getting him elected.  Consider this:   Republicans will vote for her, just because, well, it is the ticket.  Some of the Hillary supporters will absolutely jump on the bandwagon and come around to the ticket. Others will be so ticked off that they will simply not vote.  Mission accomplished.  A typical democrat who does not vote is essentially voting for McCain.  

With this in mind, Palin is a simply BRILLIANT choice.  Ladies, do not let all of the sufferagists have died in vain.  Go vote.

Candidate Mc Cain appears to be very serious about most everything, but insiders say that he has a really knockout sense of humor. This will soon prove out to the whole nation. He found an extremely nice lady from Alaska who has an equally great sense of humor, and they have conspired to do this thing where he says that she will be his vice presidential partner candidate to stand beside him along with Mrs. Mc Cain everywhere he appears in public. Helps him to look younger, which he needs at his advanced age.

But just you wait until the convention next week. Mrs. Mc Cain and Mrs. Palin will step aside from candidate Mc Cain just before his acceptance speech as Senator Mc Cain announces the real candidate for vice president who will almost guarantee him a victory in November. The humor of it all will inspire the American people to loosen up and laugh for a change at a government that can hardly get any more hilarious than it has been for the past eight years, in its historical competition with the famous Keystone Kops of Hollywood. Mrs. Palin, a top notch sport for it all, will return to Alaska to finish cleaning up the corruption there and revel in the joke of the century, and all the fun she had in pulling it off.

Great informative video.

Sarah Palin pales in comparison to United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.  John McCain thinks that America is stupid, and he's testing our intelligence.  Parading some half-brained washed out country town beauty queen around in a desperate attempt at stealing Democratic votes.  

It's a sad day in the United States of America.

Palin or not.  The main issue is that many Americans have beef with Obama, who is disingenuous and a hoax.  He is a very poor example of children who come from challenging circumstances.  Many many have come from more challenging upbringing and have had more of their integrity in tact and developed a character as adults; both of which he lacks.  He is a tricked out hack who will disappoint the less informed people, who support him, in the end.  I have lost all respect for the Clintons in the process.  

What a joke. The VP now reduced to an insignificant office. A hockey mom Mayor of a nowwhere town of 8,500 qualifies to be VP? This isn't a campaign for mom of the year. This is serious business or at least I thought it was. What happend to country first? What happened to being ready to lead? A heart beat away from the Presidency & the job of Commander in Chief & McCain goes with an unproven nobody with 20 months experience while we are fighting wars on two fronts. We have a flat economy, 10 trillion in debt, a foreclosure crisis, job loses, inflation, high gas and grocery prices & face serious problems with N. Korea and Iran.  Equal experience as Obama? People, do your homework, get a clue & educate your kids so they don't grow up to be a stupid as you.  

McCain is proving that he wouldnt be another Bush term in the White House.  No, no, Bush was a dreadfully ill-equiped nitwit who surrounded himself with some of the most competent, even though evil, people he could find. McCain is a dreadfully ill-equiped nitwit who seems to be choosing to suround himself with cluelessly unqualified sicophants and ideolouges.  Palin doesn't know what the VP does, has a self-admitted lack of any foreign policy or military knowledge, and believes that even the pregnancies of incest and rape victims should be carried to term against the victims will.  Really GOP, really? This is the new face of your party?  Frankensteins shrunken corpse and the "Horray for Jesus" Bible thumping beauty pagent "hockey mom" bubblehead?  Has the whole world gone crazy or are you so dilluted that you've completely frayed from reality?

A CLASSIC PANDER and LOWERING of the BAR for minimal competency.  These will be the legacies of John McCain who puts political chicanery above the crucial needs of this nation.  Another shameful saga of a man who is clearly suffering from his past, and ought to have retired prior to the total ruination of his remaining legacy.  The selection of Sarah Palin is an absolute disgrace and an insult to the American people in general, and Amerian women in particular.

   FOUR MORE YEARS OF PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!VOTE McSAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is terrifying to contemplate what possible damage this senile old cancer-ridden "hero" has done to the country.  If he should die while in office, this radical ingenue from small-town Alaska would get her fingers on the red button that can unleash the atom bomb on innocent people.  He only met this person once last spring, and he leaves the fate of 300 million people and the entire country in her hands as if it were just a favorite vase he is leaving to his niece.  It boggles the mind why he is not immediately locked up for treason.  There is no point in excusing this with his being a "maverick" -- he is clearly certifiable.  All politics aside -- I am seriously frightened.

Republican pundits are saying Sarah Palin is a "brilliant choice for VP"?

That is the problem with Republicans it is all ideology, tribalism and group think. Mitt Romney an excellent executive (even if he is a sleazy pol) was passed over because he was a Mormon even though he is qualified as an executive is religous bigotry by the right. This woman has never been tested, ever, on a national or even a global stage. Pawlenty, who made his case through his grasp of the issues and ideas and his executive experience. Sarah Palin seems to have been vetted by Monica Goodling! This is what we can expect from a McCain Presidency? More of the same imperious idealogical near do wells running and ruining our government.

Obama earned his way through his legislative governmental experience and the crucible of running a 300 million dollar campaign garnering over 18 million votes along the way winning the nomination by force of his intellect, policies, vision and organizational brilliance. 38 million Americans watched his acceptance speech, probaly tens of millions more globally. He has captured the imagination of untold millions around the world through his ideas and what he represents for an America that people thought they knew before George W. Bush, flawed but still the greatest hope for the free world.

Could Sarah Palin do that right now? Seriously, could she grasp the reins of the McCain multi -million dollar national campaign, lead the men and women within it and run it at this very moment? If you don't know the answer to that question. How can you answer whether or not she is ready to be leader of the free world?

I am so glad to see this absolutely insane move my John McCain! To pick a running mate who made it clear in a public interview that "she does not even know what the VP of the United States does" just proves to the american people how poor McCain's judgement is.

She is going to be second in line for the most powerful position without ANY experience.......what a joke!

Congrats to Obama and Biden, they just won this election!!!

THANK GOD

Well, its certianly the political "Odd Couple" of all time.  I think McCain just wants to be President so bad for his own ego, that he is willing to go to absolutly any lengths to do so.  He doesn't care about the dangerous moves and views he has to adopt to try to get elected, but such is his mental state.  The bottom line is, this woman wouldn't have been able to stand on the stage with the other primary candidates, they would have tore her apart in one single debate, and John McCain decides to pull this sideshow tactic?  Why is this the current situation in the race?  An educated and articulate, but largely untested, "happy happy, hope hope. happy happy change" talking man; and an ancient, overblown, "Im a hero for sitting in a prison camp" ethics-sacraficing halfcorpse? This is what we've allowed to get this far

Palin's decision to give birth to a Down-syndrome baby was a crime.  She not only trapped a human being into long-term suffering which could have been avoided, but also drains valuable resources from the society.  McCain's decision to nominate Palin shows that this old man can no longer distinguish black from white.  The Democratic candidates are bad enough; the Republican candidates are worse.  Is God damning America?

Obama's experience and education blows Palin out of the water.  Can you see her dealing with Putin.  She is being streatched to learn how to be the governor of a large but less populated state for one and a half years...Her state population is the size of a big city.  She was a mayor of a incredibly small town that had very limited duies for 8 years.  I will grant you that being the mother of 5 takes some doing but she is a working mom with a stay at home dad at this point.  

This woman is not equipped to act as president.  I think many americans are thinking 'I am as qualified as this woma to be president'. which is very telling.

You know what TREEHUGGER, she is therefore more qualified than John McCain; who has no executive experience, not in government, not in business, not even as a ranking officer in the military.  Experience, ha, i understand party loyalty, but you are insane.  This woman has a self-admitted lack of all foreign policy and military knowledge, and defines herself as a "hockey mom".  Sure, lets put her in charge of the country, i'm sure she'll hold her own against Putin; hell, mabey she'll tell him to go to "time out".  You know the election has just been handed to Obama, dont blame anyone but McCain.

Palin is a mirror reflection of Obama. Except on the Republican side. When comparing experience, she has a bit more being a Governor, which is an executive position. For Obama, the senate was just a stepping stone. He barely even showed up. He was bored. He spent his time writing his book. Then he went on tour for 8 months to promote it. After that, he went on tour again for his campaign. He has no accomplishments, no resume to speak of, and has continually taken credit for other people's work. Palin on the other hand actually showed up for the job she was elected to do. She didn't use it as a stepping stone. She didn't use it as an opportunity to write a book about herself. Instead, she went after corruption within her own party. She went after special interests and oil companies. She went after pork barrel spending. Damn, she even sold the last governor's plane on ebay. She walks the walk whereas Obama is all talk. The more you investigate and research Palin, the better she looks. Can't say the same for Obama. Obama does whatever he can to prevent people from looking into his past. McCain does not need $500 million in his coffers to fend off 527 ads about Palin's past. She doesn't have a Rezko, Ayers, Wright or Emil Jones lurking in her closet. She isn't in bed with Exelon or with members of the Chicago political thug machine. Obama's gonna need every dime of that $500 million to fend off attacks on his past associations come October. And attacking Palin's experience just reflects back on himself. The Dems nominated the wrong guy and got caught up in his ego and superficial hype. McCain actually picked someone with substance (Who actually has some of Obama's natural poise and charm to boot :)

I love how the conservative base is trying to spin this in so many different directions:  Saying, "if shes not qualified then neither is Obama!", which would be fine if John McCain hadn't been ranting about experience being the most important thing in this election.  "She has more experience than Obama!", yeah, being the governor of the 5th least populis state in the country for 20 months; that's more experienced than being in the state congress and then national senate for one of the most populis states in our nation for a decade?  "She shares our values.", really?  She is for creationism being taught in school, and is against Anti-Choice even in instances of incest and rape.

How dare McCain; he doesn't respect any of Mitt Romney's or Mike Huckabee's voters.  He doesn't have any respect for those voters who cast their valuable vote for the conservative republicans in the race.  You are demented Johnny Mac.

TRUTH:  If McCain met her only once or twice, then it was his AIDES and ADVISORS that told him who to pick.   Is this how he will run the Whitehouse?  Scarey!...  She is way too inexperienced to be able to offer any good advice, which is what McCain wants - no interference.  The VP role has effectively been reduced to a beauty pagent queen touring the country.  Administrators are bean-counters - you HIRE STAFF for that stuff.  You need judgement and insight into world affairs to LEAD.  HUGE DIFFERENCE!!!!!

We need to be serious for a moment... McCain's first serious decision as demonstrative of his sound judgment as Commander and Chief.... above Romney, Hukkabee, Pawlenty... men with far more economic and leadership experience... and he chooses this woman because of political expediency... to get women's votes ??????

Bad choice.... bad judgment... no way, no how....

Talk about complete ineptitude John McBush! This is Bush's Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court nomination, completely without merit.. But this is Great for the Democrats. Maverick McCain shows us how little we can count on this old man's judgement. Better to know this now so that we can send him into retirement. John McCain a leader? No chance, he can barely stand, has to read cue cards to remember what he is saying, and looks like he is already half in the grave.

Sarah Palin for United States Veep is a prime example of MISSDIRECTION

And McCain fell for it.

    It reminds me of the hypnotist (Hillary)

who tries to entrance a viewer (Loyal Democrats & swing Independent/Republican voters)

and the man in the back row (McCain)

who is really insignificant,

becomes stuck on the stop watch ,

and ends  up being the Duck.

But remember,  Palin kills animals with helicopters.

Now I know that Obama will get my vote!!!

Here's a picture of Downtown Wasilla, Alaska

Where Palin once achieved 90% approval ratings

http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wasilla.jpg

More on the Alaskan VP's home town here

http://mudflats.wordpress.com

Dems really need to chill out. If anything, anytime the Dems open their mouth to criticise about Sarah Palin's "inexperience" as a VP candidatee they highlight that Obama as a Pres candidate has just as much "inexperience" as Sarah Palin. This argument can backfire on them. Also, if you want to talk about excutive experience this woman has more of that then the three other candidates have combined. She has run as a mayor and Governor, what has Barack or Biden done on an executive level where you take direct responsibility for decisions you make. This is a bold choice and as an independent this does appeal to me at some level. Question is will Sarah Palin be able to sustain that appeal. Score 1 to McCain post DNC.

When McCain picked Palin I think he was just lookin' at those legs.

Like the busty secretary - McCain might have thought the Governess would be a sight for his sore eyes.

And it could be said that this is not the first time McCain has relied on a beautiful woman to get him out of trouble - or to advance his career.

I totally agree with the comments above - McCain is 72 years old - he could realistically pass away shortly after he takes the Presidency - by placing a person with so little experience on the ticket - he seems to have placed his own personal desires over the wellbeing of the country as a whole - Romney would have added far more credibility to his campaign.

McCain in choosing Dan Quayle in a dress as his running mate shows total lack of judgement,  total contempt for Americans and early signs of dementia.  I suspect all three.

The republicans have just demonstrated that they have little respect for women.

How dare John McCain thinks he can sell Sarah Palin to American women as if she's Hillary Clinton.  What an insulted cheap act on his part and a very bad discredit to Hillary and what she stands for.  I guess if Sahra was left to be president and it came down to that crucial moment at 3 AM she could turn over and ask her champion snowboarding huband what should she do in a foreign crisis...even if Hillary struggled with that one she could turn to Bill for a clear decisive answer.  People let's get real! This is some serious stuff!!  Someone please tell me if John McCain is suffering from Alzhiemer's disease on his 72nd birthday becuse he is confussing alot of people and making some bad decisions. I guess there is one thing he is clear of as he announced Sarah as his VP running mate, he said "she will always know who her boss is."  What did that mean Mr. Sexist?  What happened to having a partnerships?  A running mate you could feel comfortable with?  I guess that's what we get from John McCain who picks a VP he doesn't  know much about.  Is Sarah just your female ploy?  Is the power trip worth it John?  This really scares me and I say PEOPLE BE AWARE!

Can anyone, perhaps from the hosiptal where Trig Palin was born, verify that it was Sarah who gave birth and not her daughter Bristol.  It seems amazing that none of her staffers or the AK press corps could recognize that she was pregnant.

Her approval rating has dropped and she is under investigation in Alaska

This choice for Republican VP is insulting to women voters...how dare she and John McCain think that she has a crack at 18 million women voters.  I have been reading blog post from her home state...she is a beauty queen from a small town of 5,500 people...http://mudflats.wordpress.com.  Obama was great last night and is the hope of this nation.  

Pavin is against a womans right to choose absolutely, including scenarios of rape and incest; this is not my take, this is her stated opinion.  As a man, abortion doesn't directly effect my body, but trying to dictate the choices of a rape victim, that is the most dispicable thing i can think of a person doing to another person.  How moral is that?  What a joke that anyone would think that just because Pavin is a woman, that women are going to flock to her, how patronizing.

Ok, republicans, here are the real problems with this:  This lady is not coming in to be Dick Cheney.  She isn't going to shape policy through  a John McCain administration; 72yr old beltway boy McCain isn't going to consult with 44 yr old nursing "hockey mom" Pavin.  So the only time that she would "shake things up" in Washington is if Johnny Mac drops.  So either she will have no input or total input, and neither of those options are satisfactory to your party.  She makes McCain look so damn old that the age worry just became issue #1 against the McCain campaign, spoken or unspoken, thats whats on everyones mind.  This is obserd.

Palin is an execptionally bright and capable woman and has proven so by winning an 80% approval rating as governor. She is highly respected by her peer governors both Republican and Democrat.  Governors run states and Legislators make laws. In Obama's case he didn't even really make any laws and voted Present more than "aye" or "nay".  

After the announcement of Palin as VP there was such excitement where I work.  Nurses that I have never heard speak about politics were raving about Palin.  She made an excellent first impression with her speech Friday.  Unlike the Obama and Biden introduction, Obama introducing him as the candidate for President and Biden calling Obama Barack America.  The McCain introduction was flawless and exciting.  I'm sure we will learn more of her accomplishments in the coming 2 months but so far I like what I saw....a spunky, gutsy woman who knows where she stands and that is against government waste.  She will be up to the task of VP and will be a quick understudy for the Presidency.  Professional, confident, intelligent, and likable. Actual experience running government and standing up for what she knows is right for the people who elected her.

Not owned by lobbiests in Washington, she would be able to make decisions about what is best for the American people and not just what is best for lobbiests.  Go Gov. Palin...and don't stop til you get to the White House.  

This lady is a blank slate.  She has a self-admitted lack of all foreign policy or military knowledge.  She knows how to shoot a gun, and she knows how to be anti-abortion.  Even Republican pundits, those paid to spin b.s, cant offer responses to straight questions, saying they don't have enough knowledge about her to answer the questions about her views.  McCain could have picked Romney or Pawlenty, kept rolling the "experience" line against Obama, which was working, and he threw it away for a fluff shot.  People are actually talking about Palins best shot to be benificial to McCain by "capturing the nations heart"!! Are you Fcking kidding me? This isnt Hillary Clinton, this isnt even Nancy Pelosi, this is an insult.  Blow it out your old egotistical "i'm a maverick" ass, you pandering patronizing prick.  Thank god you handed the campaign to someone else, anybody else, today.

SHOCKING! SHOCKING! SHOCKING -- and scary as heck.  I planned a vote for McCain, now I will stay home

I am just not sure how Palin can be a heartbeat away from being president.  Would Starbucks appoint as its CEO, someone who was running the store at 47th and Park? Shareholders would not have it.  Would the Johns Hopkins Medical Center select as its new chief executive someone who was running the Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, ID? The medical staff would leave in outrage. Then why is Palin good enough for America?  Folks, this has gotta be more about what is best for the country, not what gets me elected.  Women should be outraged.  Republicans should be outraged.  Americans should be outraged...we deserve the best.

How can her guns, babies and Jesus values, which are so different from McCain's, be a sigh of relief for the GOP?  Won't he be the one signing legislation?  If John does not believe in it, it won't get signed, no matter what his veep believes.

This choice was a not-so-subtle attempt to attract frustrated Clinton supporters and women 35-55.  What is so darn insulting is that McCain clearly thinks that one woman is just like the next . . . that Sarah Palin can simply pick up the fight that Hillary Clinton has been championing for decades.  It actually is completely insulting to women.  And to learn that she has a 4 month old baby and four other children that she has no problem leaving for the rigorous schedule of a presidential campaign is nothing short of DISGUSTING.  So much for family values.

How ironic, to see McCain under his "Country First" sign.

In these dangerous times and terrible economic conditions - knowing he’s 72 and has had multiple cancers - he gives us someone for a potential leader of the free world whose value is exclusively political, valuable only for the purpose of getting him elected President.  

What would happen to America and the world, if he were incapacitated, and this governor of 18 months and mayor of a hamlet of 6000 were dealing with Putin, the Taliban, the Chinese – not to mention the horrific economic wreckage we must urgently deal with? How could he sell out the best interests of our country to get himself into the Oval Office?  He was a hero.

Country first?  I'm sure it was. It clearly is not, any more.

How very sad

We are told that this is the most important decision that a Presidential Candidate makes before the election, yet Senator McCain only talked with Gov. Palin twice. Senator Obama spoke about the need for a strong working relationship and compatibility to compliment each other being essential. Senator McCain appears more like Bush, making a decision based solely on politics and taking the lazy short cut as well not being interested enough to really see what kind of relationship exists or could be forged. This exposes a huge flaw in Senator McCain.

"Good job, Sarah!"  The bar continues low.  

Maybe the shadowy overlords have given up on McCain...?  Perhaps they have manipulated him into picking Palin so as to launch her as their perfect anti-Obama.  In which case McCain should get a food taster.  

Karl Rove still doesn't get it.  It's not Obama's story as much as it is we choose Obama's story.   He thinks he can make sell the Sarah Palin story.  It's so cynical.  Imagine the movie.  Maybe Jennifer Garner can play Palin as a simple frontier wife becomes govenor in Alaska and then rules the free world.  Here's an important difference:  Only Barak Obama can play Barak Obama.  It's called the real deal.  

The Republicans must be just seething.  McCain has lost his brain.

Sarah Palin = Harriet Meiers

Can you say, "What are your credentials?

Obama & Biden  is Laughing Out .....LOUD !!!

You've heard from Mccain and his Cronies from Day One, that (47 Yr Old) Barack Obama is...

"Too Young and Too In-Experienced to be President"

This Woman is (44 Yrs Old) has Served as the State of Alaska for ONLY (2Years) and been a Mayor in Juneau a population of 10,000 People ?

National Experience: Yet Obama is a Jr. Senator and Joe biden is a 36 year Senator with Great International Credentials.

This is a Desperate, Dire and Tasteless Attempt to Garner Womens Votes.

It will NOT WORK !!!

Can you Imagine the Looks & Thoughts of Mitt Romney, Pawlenty and Joe Lie-Berman when trying to Reason why McCain OverStepped them, for a  42 yr old Rookie Governor ?

How is John McCain going to Reconcile his "Obama is Too young, Too In-Experienced to be Commander & Chief" statements..

Furthermore, All You Mccain Low Lifes Chanting and harping, the Same... EXACT THING !!!!

Boy is John McCain .....SENILE

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Bill Clinton did a Great Thing, by saying what the Republican Opposition thought of him and tried to Emphasize about him "Being Too Young & Inexperienced" and Bill One Upped their Asses !!!

Bill was 45 Years Old.

He should've gone on Further and said...

Then (43 Yr Old) John F. Kennedy was also Mocked by the Republicans and his own Democratic Opposition Lyndon B. Johnson as being "Too Young & Too InExperienced" as well.

Mr.666 Himself, Ron-ald Wil-son Rea-gan was Scorned Early on by the Press and his Republican opposition as "Being Too Old & InExperienced and just a B-Actor vying for the White House" and also it was said, "That Running a Single State is not like Running 50 states" but later on one of the Most Beloved Presidents.

Jimmy Carter was called "Too Southern, Too Out of Touch and He has No National Or International Experience", yet Carter did 2 Great Things in his 1 term as President..

1. Carter Brokered: The "Middle East Peace Agreement" an Agreement that has lasted to this day, Between Both Israel & Eygpt.

2. Carter Brokered: The Strategic Nuclear Amed Missiles Agreement between Both The USA & Russia. These 2 Agreements thus far.....

HAVE NEVER BEEN BROKEN !!!

Jimmy Carter did it without BloodShed and Mass Murder or Mass Destruction.

NOW THINK ABOUT THAT, WHEN YOU CRITICIZE JIMMY CARTER.

Jon F. Jennedy: was (43 Yaars Old)

Russia's New President: D'mitri Medvedev is (42 Yrs Old)

Former USA President: Bill Clinton was (45 Yrs Old) and had Only State Regioanl Experience

Barack ObamaI is (47 Yrs Old) 2 Years Older than Bill Clinton

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Bill Clinton: My fellow Democrats, sixteen years ago, you gave me the profound honor to lead our party to victory and to lead our nation to a new era of peace and broadly shared prosperity.

Bill Clinton: Together, we prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said "I was Too Young and Too In-Experienced to be Commander-in-Chief".

Sound familiar ?

It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it won't work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.

His life is a 21st Century incarnation of the American Dream. His achievements are proof of our continuing progress toward the "more perfect union" of our founders' dreams. The values of freedom and equal opportunity which have given him his historic chance will drive him as president to give all Americans, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability, their chance to build a decent life, and to show our humanity, as well as our strength, to the world.

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YOU GUYS CAN LOOK THE OTHER WAY ON THE HILLARY CLINTON NOT ON THE OBAMA TICKET,HILLARY & BILL WILL BE ON THE STUMP WITH BARACK AND JOE BIDEN THIS FALL....

AND THE MCCAIN CLIQUE WILL BE VERY, VERY LUCKY TO GARNER 13-18% OF THE HILLARY CLINTON GROUP, IF THAT....SORRY

PUMA: 1.) WE WILL, NOT VOTE AT ALL,  2.) VOTE FOR AN INDEPENDENT OR 3.) VOTE FOR MCCAIN.

JOHN MCCAIN, YOU ARE REALLY STRETCHING FOR A BIG LIFE LINE.

McCain Contradicts himself, when he said he wanted someone with "Experience" to be able to takeover in case something should happen to him and he picks this Person to be that Person, to have  the "Experience" to takeover the Highest Office in the World !!!

This proves Obama to be the Wisest and Maturist decision maker of the Two.

This has also Pissed Off Governors Pawlenty and Romney as well as others who were Strung along, thinking that they were going to or shall I say, had the VP Slot.

Mccain met this Person 1 Time and later to tell her that she in fact, was going to be given the VP Slot.

This is Not being a "Maverick" this is called being "Wreckless" and  Feeble Minded in Thoughts as well as Poor Management Skills.

Note: Obama went through a long Process and you See the in Result, John Edwards was found to have had Extra-Marital Affiars.

Obama is Much More Wiser than McCain.      

This is a strategy of distraction by the Republicans because they have absolutely no economic and no foreign policy that they can sell to American workers. So they want us to spend the remaining 67 days of the election trying to figure out who is his Alaskan "soccer mom" candidate. It's frightening that McCain would be so irresponsible in his VP selection given his age, health, and our current economic problems and wars. It's incomprehensible. What about the country?!!!

One: She can bring in the votes of some of the disgruntled Hillary supporters

Two: It will be hard for Joe Biden to take on a woman in the debate and in the campaign

Three: She will appeal to the conservative base

Four: She is young and attractive. She is inexperienced and John has met her only once or twice before. Enough to make up made up his mind to consider her for a serious position at a time when the stakes for the country are high?.  What was he thinking? Could it simply be an attraction to another beauty queen and for the chance to hang around a young pretty woman? The twinkle in his eye, the fidgeting with his ring, the winks, were all revealing.

MCCAINE met this lady once. A single interview. The second most important job in this nation - if not the planet - was given based on a single interview. What does that say about McCain's judgment? And who has a baby at 46 and then says, even though I'm still nursing a Downs syndrome baby, I want to be second in command? And if you read her record, she's been investigated twice for ethics violations; once as mayor of Wasilla and once as Govenor of Alaska, both times for improperly firing chiefs of police. Put aside the divisive issues like abortion and teaching creationism in the classroom, this is a woman who has - in the miniscule amount of time she has held office - already managed to abuse her power. And neither McCaine or Palin even went to graduate school. This would be the least educated executive branch since the industrial revolution.

Sarah Palin really loves the United States.  She took that money -- tax money from citizens all over the United States-- for the Bridge to Nowhere and then cancelled the bridge.  But she kept the money.  Gave everyone in Alaska $1200.  Thanks, Lower 48!  And she got a lot of experience as mayor of that little village (pop. 8000)  I hear she got a bicycle, complete with trailer, donated to the village. Of course, she ran on a platform against a proposed increase in sales taxes -- then she inposed those taxes anyway.  They were a big success, however.  Brought in so much revenue that she could cut property taxes.  Of course, I'm not too sure how the experience with a village where the main industries involve ice fishing and snow sports will translate to the problems in --- oh say, Cleveland, or Miami, or Philadelphia, or even Wichita. Of course, she doesn't know what McCain's Iraq policy is (even though she's sending her oldest boy off to war momentarily), and  she doesn't know what a VP actually does. What was that line about needing on-the-job training?  

Well thats a fine stump speech NC Tarheel.  Im happy that you are satisfied with John McCain's VP choice, and all of her great "executive experience", all 20 months of it, in the 5th least populist state in our nation.  All 20 months as Commander in Chief of the Alaskan National Gaurd is surely enough to compensate for her self admitted lack of any military or foreign affairs knowledge.  Come to think of it, she is the only person on either ticket to have any executive experience.... what the hell, why isnt McCain her VP, he doesnt have any experience as an executive!  This is all backwards!!

THE BIASED MAINSTREAM “OBAMA” MEDIA IS AT IT AGAIN. AMERICA HAS A QUALIFIED WOMAN RUNNING FOR VP AND MSNBC TALKS ABOUT HOW MANY HOMES SHE OWNS??? OBAMA, THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA WILL DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.

NOW WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE RUNNING WHO LOVE AMERICA — McCAIN AND PALIN!

GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN IS A GREAT CHOICE FOR ALL AMERICANS!  She has lots of experience on many issues and truly cares about America.  SHE HAS ACTUALLY “GOVERNED” --- OBAMA HAS DONE NOTHING BUT RUN FOR OFFICE, TELL LIES AND MAKE PROMISES.  

WHY DID WE ALLOW PELOSI INTO OUR WHITE HOUSE? IN 2004 SHE PROMISED TO UNITE AMERICA. SHE AND HER BIG-WIG DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE CAUSED US FURTHER DIVIDE. WE NEED TO REPLACE ALL DO-NOTHING DEMS IN CONGRESS.

Just remember, Hillary helped Obama get his Senate seat — then he stabbed her in the back. Now the DNC is forcing Hillary and Bill to support him until November. Will they pay off her campaign debt then?

Regarding Obama’s acceptance speech — Tucker Bounds:

“Americans witnessed a misleading speech that was so fundamentally at odds with the meager record of Barack Obama.

When the temple comes down, the fireworks end, and the words are over, the facts remain:

Senator Obama still has no record of bipartisanship, still opposes offshore drilling, still voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 per year, and still voted against funds for American troops in harm’s way.

The fact remains: Barack Obama is still not ready to be President.”

WE DON’T NEED A PRESIDENT IN TRAINING!

I’M VOTING FOR THE HONORABLE JOHN McCAIN IN NOVEMBER!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

McCain's choice for VP all but makes a mockery of the serious issues at stake for this election.  Our country is being crushed to death by deep-seated, endemic problems requiring a superhuman level of intelligence, ability and resolve to even start to fix, and the GOP nominee presents us with Harriet-Freaking-Myers.  Or Dan Quayle, or some other maddeningly unqualified exercise in mediocrity.  And don't give me that crap about "she's running for VP, not President."  She is running to be McCain's POTENTIAL SUCCESSOR, a very real possiblity given his age and health issues. I don't want to imagine the result of her trying to face off against Iran or, God forbid, Russia, whatever her twenty months of so-called "executive experience" negotiating with Canada over fishing rights or something may be. McCain insults and endangers us all with his choice, and it should be considered the last nail in the coffin on the assessment of his "judgment."

Congratulations Governor Palin!

...that said...

Of all the Republican candidates available for Senator McCain to select from. I genuinely need the Republican Party to help me understand what selection criterion was used to select Governor Palin over the experienced and knowledgeable Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.

Texas is a much more populous state than Alaska. Texas has large urban areas which reflect the challenges faced by other states with large urban areas.

Senator McCain had a somewhat compelling argument regarding the inexperience of Senator Obama. Although Senator McCain trailed in the polls, he was within the margin of error in some polls.

If not Senator Hutchison, why not Senator Susan Collins? Maybe even Condoleezza Rice?

If not a woman, why not Governor Crist, Romney, or Pawlenty?

Going forward, please don't mention being a P.O.W. again. The Vietnamese were heinous in their mental and physical torture techniques.

...and Senator McCain, I'm seriously concerned about your judgment.

I just want to hear this honestly from one McCain supporter, I want to hear one of them say these words, "Sarah Palin is one of the top five most qualified republicans in all of the U.S. government to occupy the role of VP candidate, and be one breath away from the oval office if JM were to win."  Because if those words are spoken, than it'll be an admission that a 44yr old, hockey mom, beauty pagent contestant, 20 month Governor of the 5th least populis state, with admittedly no military, foreign, or national domestic policy knowledge, this person is the best the Republican party has to offer.

JC2008 I am anything but a democrat I will be voting for Ron Paul the only true republican that was in the race John McCain is less of a conservative than Hillary Clinton.I agree with mrzoid McCain has gone batshit for sure.

The selection of Ms Palin is actually an insult to women.  Her views are leaning way right from that of the average american woman - you remember them, the majority of whom do not want to see Roe repealed.  She's too extreme to win Clinton supporters.  The mccain camp has reduced the qualiifications for the vice presidency to having a uterus.  Her resume is a joke.  If I wanted a soccer mom running the show, I'd have thrown my name in the hat.  

On second thought, this isn't just an insult to women, it's an insult to all Americans that are taking this elections and the issues involved seriously.

John McCain has been reduced to a punchline.  HIs selection of Ms Palin was the joke.

Huh? Who? WOW!! Thank you Senator McCain for this choice. We Democrats are rejoicing. And if you think women can't see through this pandering, you are mistaken. My goodness, I thought I was happy last night after listening to Obama's speech- today I am even happier. Bye Bye GOP. WE are going to take the country back. America is better than the last 8 years.

Somewhere, Sean Hannity is crying into his ***-shaped pillow.  At least he has Rush there to spoon with and sob along.  Yes, and somewhere, Karl Rove is saying to himself, "Is this a revenge move?  Is John McCain that pissed from 2000 when i torpedoed him, that he is destroying any chance for the best of us GOP spinners to save the election for my party?  There isn't any other explanation for this!".  Mabey John McCain just went off his meds; mabey his advisers found him last night in his bathtub, using his back scrubber as a paddle, and wearing a sailors hat made out of the New York Post, singing happy birthday to me.  I cant be sure McCain has gone batshit, but it would certianly explain alot of things.  

I have long suspected McCain is suffering from the onset of Dementia. To meet this person only once and is sure is ready to be president of the United States and protector of 300 million citizens has removed my suspicion it is now confirmed by this wreckless action.

How could the GOP have endorsed this fossil are they on a self-destruct mission?

Bottom line is John McCain wasnt running a "lets have freh ideas, and happy thoughts" campaign; he was running a "we need an experienced, defense minded candidate" campaign.  Tell me how this works into the McCain platform?  Im sorry, but you know the party is seething, you dont need to admit it, but you know it all the same.  I dont care about the gender or state of origin, i care that a person with no foreign policy or domestic experience, and a self-admitted lack of intrest in those topics, is being pushed by a 72yr old with prior health issues, to be a heartbeat from sitting at the helm of America.  I find it insulting that you would tap the woman, of all women, to fill this slot.  Kay Bailey Hutchinson, long standing record in the national government; what would be wrong with a pick like that?  This is insane, and i'm still not convinced im awake right now.  I still think i may wake up with Pawlenty giving a speech.

Illinois:

The context is in the paragraphs above.

Sharkman - you're about as Republican as Keith Olberman.

Just admit you're a Lib who doesn't want to own up to it and voice it proudly.

Newsweek can you please take your stupid sprint advertizements off my computer screen?

I am a republican voter who was going to vote for McCain.After seeing his choice for V.P. he just showed me what a Republicrate he really is John McCaine you just lost my vote and a lot of other conservatives.You are a joke.

To jc2008:

The libs should keep what in mind?  You didn't say anything?

This actually fits in perfectly with how conservatives think.  They truly believe that since their base of voters has been so easy to fool over the last couple of decades that with the choice of a woman for vice president, no matter what her experience or where she stands on the issues, most American women will now roll over and vote for John McCain.  This also shows how little they not only think of woman in general, but THINK, period.  That’s all women care about, they surmise…. getting a woman into the White House because that certainly supersedes the fact that the GOP has been anti women rights for a century or that they want to control a woman’s reproductive rights or that they spent so many decades telling me and other women of my generation that our  “place was in the home.”

Yes, unfortunately there is a nice size chunk of America that puts on a drool bib each day to watch Fox News or listen to Rush Limbaugh spew hate about “LIBERALS.”   And by golly, now they hate liberals too even though most of them have spent years stupidly voting against their own interests.   But sorry John, the people you are hoping to bring into the GOP fold simply because you chose a woman as your vice presidential nominee actually spend a good part of their day THINKING.   They use a little thing called LOGIC and INTELLECT.  You wouldn’t know them.  You don’t spend much time around them.  WE AREN’T YOUR BASE.

Cherokeen01:

She is the Governor of Alaska.

You know, energy, oil, gas pipelines, spending and budget reforms, ... executive experience in other words.

Barack Obama can't even speak without a teleprompter and this impresses you about these Harvard brain cells?

How can one possibly equate Obamas so called lack of experience with Sarah "Who". He was in the Senate for 4 years, she was the mayor of Whatever, Alasks where the biggest worry was that there would be enough snow for a dog sled race. She graduated from that seat of education, U. of Idaho, with a major in communications. Isn't that what Jocks with NFL or NBA aspirations major in?? Obama graduated with honor from Columbia Univ., went on to Harvard for his law degree and was president of the Harvard Law Review. How can we even pretend to compare. This is anological to me hittin one out of the park when batting against Roger Clemens. It ain't gonna happen.Heaven forbid that the asinine US voters perchance were to elect Mc Cain and he were to succumb, Heaven help ua. Can you invision Sarah "Who" addressing congress and delivering a State Od The Union Address?, or arm wrestling with Putin, or solving the Irani situation? Seriously and I do mean this, is McCain suffering from late stage dementia?  This ia a race for the white house, not a dog sled race.

I'd rather have Sarah Palin's experience in the Vice President's office with John McCain as President than Barack Obama's experience in the Oval Office coupled with anyone else on earth sitting in the Vice President's office.

McCain is running for President against Obama.

You Libs out there need to keep this in mind.

What. The. Heck.

Why did McCain pick her, again?  Seriously, what is she going to bring to the ticket?  I was watching her speech today, and she mostly talked about how wonderful her husband was, how he worked in oil, how her kids were just so awesome. . .in other words, things I don't care about.  What is this?  McCain bashes Obama for having little foreign policy experience, then picks a VP with NO foreign policy experience, and who has only been in politics for about two years now.  Brilliant move there.  Is demetia setting in already?  

What. The. Heck.

Why did McCain pick her, again?  Seriously, what is she going to bring to the ticket?  I was watching her speech today, and she mostly talked about how wonderful her husband was, how he worked in oil, how her kids were just so awesome. . .in other words, things I don't care about.  What is this?  McCain bashes Obama for having little foreign policy experience, then picks a VP with NO foreign policy experience, and who has only been in politics for about two years now.  Brilliant move there.  Is demetia setting in already?  

Honesty from a Republican at last!

Obama made a fine choice when he chose Joe Biden, because Biden's experience, his long career in Washington and his firm grasp of foriegn policy compliment Obama's own weaknesses. It's a great combination, an inexperienced newcomer with the support of a grizzled veteran.

McCain, on the other hand, did not chose a canidate to compliment his weaknesses. He chose a noboby, who the average American wouldn't even have recognized on the street 2 years ago.  He chose a canidate with very little experience in government who's only real strength is that she's not a white male. . . oh wait, that sounds like Obama.