Go figure
Posted on 10/06/2008 7:57:36 PM PDT by presidio9
TEN words keep ringing in my ears, long after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly redeemed herself and put to rest the nation's worst fears about the bottom of the Republican ticket.
"How long have I been at this?" she asked during last week's high-stakes vice presidential debate. "Like, five weeks?"
Say it ain't so, Joe, she's right.
No question, Palin killed. She's great on television when she's got rehearsed lines to deliver and no follow-up questions to answer. She's brash and disarming, and she makes you want to send her to Washington and give those boys a big whack on the patootie, you betcha.
But she's still not ready to be the nation's backup commander in chief in real life — or to compensate for Sen. John McCain's clear weaknesses on the economy. This isn't meant to be another case of Palin-bashing by the media elite. (Hello, I'm in Oregon.) This is the realization that, as the nation remains at war and in an economic crisis,
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What he's got is an untested dynamo who didn't know her Fannie from her Freddie until two weeks ago.
(Granted, neither did we. But we're not running for vice president.)
I had to root for Palin during Thursday's debate. She didn't collapse into incoherence, as she has during her unscripted television appearances. She did so well, I almost felt bad for Tina Fey.
But the debate was pure political theater, not a demonstration of national leadership. It was a timed performance in which the candidates gave canned soliloquies about soccer moms and guys named Joey.
It was also an interview for a job that requires years of preparation, not weeks. When the show's over, voters worried sick about the future will favor the more-qualified candidate.
Not the one who aced her screen test.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
When the show’s over, voters worried sick about the future will favor the more-qualified candidate.
and his name is John McCain.
The thing is, Obama knows Fannie and Freddie intimately - he got lots and lots of money from them.
“When the show’s over, voters worried sick about the future will favor the more-qualified candidate.”
I agree with this statement, and that’s why I think most people will vote for McCain.
And the entire Obama campaign has been... what exactly?
This is sick! Barry O bolshevik has not only no experience, but no ability to handle this country and they’re worried about the vice presidential nominee?
“It was also an interview for a job that requires years of preparation, not weeks.”
Translated: A job that requires years of being brainwashed into the Beltway culture where she can can acquire the groupthink of the media and politicians.
Politicians and media elite think the rest of us are idiots. Thus Sarah Palin is too inexperienced to be VP.
Absolute and utter hogwash!!!!
I’ll favor the most qualified candidate of the bunch: Governor Palin
Joe Biden has been at this for years and he told 14 lies....err....mistatements....and wasn’t able to correctly define the duties of the job he is seeking. So much for all that experience.
I am sure this lady had no intrest in voting McCain/Palin all along.
I am tired of far left liberals giving us a critique of our Vice Presidential candidate. They forget that Sarah has more experiance than their boy Obama.
Go figure
Yeah, sure - doggonit, the writer is defintely on a Palin rant. You betcha - it’s not even a well disguised bashing.
Hey Susan: SHUT UP!
I’d really like to hear about this exit strategy for Iraq, but then our enemies would get to hear about it too. Along with that promised date for withdrawl. Can we pretty-please ask all the terrorists in the world to turn off their TVs for like 15 minutes or so?
They keep missing the point. She’s a natural leader, pure and simple. 70,000,000 watched- and not to see Joe Six-Term.
www.wegotsarah.com
lol....as if Susan’s ready for a column.
3 bagger.
One for her, one for you in case hers breaks.
One for the dog if he wanders into the room.
Females put males , even Lefty metrosexual males , to shame when it comes to thinking up ways to tweak and refine their Sarah-hatred. And this pathetic “journalist”
commits even more gaffes and misrepresentations, and outright lies than Biden did during said debate.
Americans are being frighteningly naive about Senator Obama, never seeming to question that the puppeteers who have programmed and introduced him onto the American stage have a plan for this nation that does not coincide with the ideals of the Declaration and United States Constitution.
The liberty of millions yet unborn hangs in the balance in this election, and between now and Election Day, someone needs to expose those who control Obama's agenda.
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." - Benjamin Disraeli
I’d like to stick a large sculpture of the word “experience” up Susan Nielson’s ... Volvo’s tail-pipe, crosswise. I have had all the “experience” I need from the pack of hyenas who have been running the gubmint in Washington DC. dem or pub, man or woman, black or white, east or west, elected, hired or appointed. I am willing to start all over. One new face is a small start.
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