Posted on 08/29/2008 12:22:04 PM PDT by pissant
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign on Friday blasted his Republican rival's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a running-mate, highlighting her "zero" foreign policy experience.
"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement.
Burton also criticized Palin as a vice presidential pick for her support of oil drilling in the Alaskan wilderness and her anti-abortion stance, referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States.
"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," he said.
The choice of Palin was seen as a bold effort by McCain to attract disgruntled Democratic and independent supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by Obama in the race to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Palin, a telegenic conservative, has led the oil-producing northwestern US state since December 2006 and was the first woman and youngest person to hold that state's top job.
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If Palin has “zero” expreince...Then Obama and Bidens *combined* experience, must be quantifiable, only in some anti-universe, as neith3r one of them has *ever* held any executive position in their entire careers. Neither one of them, has spent even one *week*, one *day*, one *hour*, in a command seat, where their singular decisions, affected the lives of all those affected, and the health of the organization that they headed.
The qualities that make for a Senator, do not apply to the Office of the Executive. McCain was./is not, particularly qualified for POTUS because he has been a Senator, what he brings to his candidacy, is his *executive* expirience.
Congress, and the Senate, are for hemmers and hawers, for BS-ing and compromising.
The Chief Executive is for immediate and decisive action in crisis and critical situations...for what must be dealt with, immediately.
Obama is a hesitater, and Biden is a world Class Bull Esser...Neither are a good fit for the Oval Office, in the *best* of times.
If I were you, I’d go ahead and vote for NOBAMA because he does have MUCH more experience than Palin, even though Palin isn’t running for president!
He has more experience living as a white man in a black man’s body!
He has more experience hanging out with pentagon bombers!
He has more experience hanging out with corrupt felons!
He has more experience (20 YEARS!) hanging out with America-hating pastors!
What more could you possibly ask for in a candidate?
Have you ever tried therapy? It must SUCK to be you!
Actually, she’s already been to Iraq ... without being shamed into it.
I take it back.
Obama is not the anti-Christ.
He’s way to damned stupid!
She has been to Iraq, and her son will be there next month - in the Army.
Another great ad. McCain’s crew is putting together some hard-hitting commercials. It helps that Obama has a glass jaw.
How desperate! How silly. Barack Mugabe Hussein Obama once got on a plane. That means he has foreign policy experience?
How about this for change, Over the past 36 years that Obama's running mate has been in the senate we have seen some change for the worse. 40 million babies have been killed in the womb, the United States has been prohibited from developing it's vast energy sources, and income taxes that were supposed to only be on the rich are squeezing the middle class. Obama's plans will exacerbate each of this. Is this the change you want?
I liked the part about Sarah making crucial freethrows in the final seconds of the state championship Basketball game with a hairline fractured ankle! And with five children, she’s a tough cookie don’tchaknow. Her affirmation of the life of little Trig will elnd to shattering the myth that feminists are anti-life when feminists all over the country vote for her on the ticket over a democrat who defended infanticide in IL.
She has more executive experience than either one, Obama or Obiden.
It is a shame and a disgrace we have the son of a muslim and possibly a muslim himself running for the office of President and seeing how the folks of Great Britian are surrending their homeland to the muslims.
It is enough to make me sick at my stomach.
Ha that is so true LOL McCain shamed him into the trip LOL
Actually yes she was, before being Gov. Still might not be much, but it's still more exec experience than Obama, Biden, and McCain have....combined.
So his visiting Pakistan when it was impossible for Americans to do so on a US passport (but OK on an Indonesian passpost which he may have held and used) is foreign policy experience? That's way beyond thin, more like anorexic. If Gov. Palin went to Mexico for Spring Break would that count as more or less experience than Obama's? How about a trip to Eurpoe too?
Obama's a fraud made out of whole cloth and he's unravelling quickly.
Well, I would stack up Palin’s experience to Obama’s any day of the week. Wait a second, she’s the VP candidate and he’s the Pres candidate...
Palin isn't conservative? Are you joking?
A couple of days ago Hannity tried to pin Mike (The tank driver) Ducaca down to name 3 things that Obummer had accomplished during his career. Mike (The tank driver)Ducaca couldn't name one even with Colms help.
...it was a joke,
as in “Obama still is a beauty queen...but was never Mayor”.
It was funnier when I first typed it. :)
I take it back. Obama is not the anti-Christ. He’s way too damned stupid!
***Bump that. Now that’s a post that has brightened my day.
I was going to say welcome to FR, then I looked at your join date.
I was going to say you forgot the /sarc tag...then I looked at your post history.
How is this DU/DKos troll still here?
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