Your post nicely illustrates the difference between the Rats and Republicans (”too soon”, Obama vrs Palin).
and that was the blatant bias at the time... Obama, still wet behind the ears, no real experience was seen as ready by the media as opposed to Palin... and John McCain was too old school, but Biden was experienced... bias...
but regardless of what the liberals and the media thought, Palin should have been given more time before making her national debut... i didn't want to waste her...