The Obama Campaign's First Impulse...

dl: Such condescension! It sounds like you think that just because Palin is not from a big city that she is ignorant. I can answer all those questions and have never held any office. Heck, my youngest child, 13 yo,can answer all but the geopolitical history ones

another thing...i don't know if you haven't noticed this but, as soon as you decide to vote for mccain, you stopped being a "hillary supporter" she support obama now. palin is the polar opposite of Hillary...this is not being mean. over on this side of the country(with independents and republicans)we deal with facts and not emotions like democrats..you are either an independent or a republican....just cutting thru the haze here..

reponse to: siloh

as an independent that used to be a republican i am asking a sincere question...i am not on the attack like some bloggers here. this vp choice totally killed mccains argument about obamas lack of experience...u r suppose to pick a vp that can run the country, handle foreign policy, and deal with the complicated national security issues...so how does this candidate match up to the 8 or 10 female republicans that clearly are more qualified than palin???that is the question we should be asking...

Response: bitter independent | Aug 29, 2008 11:04:23 PM

As a Hillary Supporter, I'm not laughing at the choice that McCain made. I take these things very seriously. How smug of you to think that Hillary supporters will not seriously consider Palin as the right choice for McCain after seeing her credentials. If anything, we're laughing at the "institution" that Obama put as his running mate.

look i'm a realist....if i was still a republican i would be very worried and feel cheated....check the other blogs(independent and democrats) they are having a field day with this vp pick!!!!

can any intelligent republican really tell me why this is a great choice?!!! i just don’t see how this pick is really viable. she has a B.A. in Journalism and a MINOR in Political Science. She actually has 1 and 1/2 of govenor experience of a small town(ok state)called Alaska…the evangelicals are applauding while the Hillary supporters and the rest to the dems are laughing…is john Mccain serious??!!!

Palin is not fit to stand on the same stage as Hillary. SHE IS NO HILLARY. Hillary Clinton supports women but Palin supports herself. She is a poor substitute, and MCCain is a desperate, old man.

"Alan like many rightwingers before him has issues with the truth

1. Palin has more experience than Obama

1 1/2 years as Gov of small state vs 3 1/2 a US Senator. 6 years a mayor of small town vs 8 years as IL state Senator."

Of course, take away 2 years of Obama's senator time for his presidential campaigning and we're left with 1 1/2 years of Senatorial experience. Of course the big one here is:
Executive experience: Palin 7 1/2 years vs. Obama 0 years.

And let's be honest, what will be more effective: Obama-Biden saying we need to pull out by 2011 and McCain-Palin disagree, or Palin saying she has a son who will serve in Iraq come Sept. and while she is proud of him and wants him to come home, she also wants him to come home with all American soldiers after victory has been achieved.

Plus Palin has been to Iraq and her wiki page has a photo of her at a German military hospital visiting wounded troops. Something Sen. Obama couldn't fit into his busy schedule of campaigning and pandering.

Lastly, even if you want to credit his state senator and his full senate term, Obama has only 3 years more political experience on Palin. Difference? One's the top of the ticket, the other's the bottom.

A BRILLIANT pick by McCain. She has far more experience and is far more qualified than Obama. Obama shows what a classless bitter loser he is. Obama has never accomplished anything.

When I first heard that McCain would choose Palin I was outraged. But when I learned a bit about her history and what she had accomplished in the past, she became the right person for me to support the Ticket as VP. I was a Hillary supporter, and for me Palin is the right choice to make me vote for McCain. She has more experience than Obama, and she's the VP candidate. OBama has no experience, yet he's the Presidential candidate. DO the Obama supporters know the meaning of hypocrisy when the say that she has little experience and is a heart-beat away from the presidency? Wait a sec., isn't your candidate Obama, less experienced than Palin, and yet he's at the top of the ticket. Here comes the Obama teams rearing it's ugly sexist head again. Hillary supporters will not forget what Obama did to her, and we are going to vote McCain/Palin '08. And I'll still vote Hillary '2012.

"It's the single smartest most savvy move I've seen in this election."
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Can't go wrong with Miss Congeniality -- and Palin even looks a little like Sandra Bullock. :^)

Reply to: Davis | Aug 29, 2008 6:24:28 PM"

Wow Davis, Could you be wrong about anything else? Lets see:

1. She was mayor of Wasilla AK, not Juno(which is spelled wrong by the way, it's Juneau. Juneau is the capitol of AK, in case you haven't figured that part out.)

2.Wasillia probably doesn't see much tourism from the cruise ships either. Since it isn't on the coast. It's a couple miles inland and north of Anchorage.

3. Alaska isn't the least populous state in the country. (Vermont is in case you were wondering)
And since Alaska amount of "backwardness" is totally your opinion we can count that as wrong too.

Thanks for playing. Please come again.

Tina, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said some time ago, "...that my sights were a different place and I did not want to be considered.” Apparently she is contemplating a run for governor of Texas in 2010. As for Dr. Condoleezza Rice, she was very adamant that she had no interest in running for public office (I personally wish she had run for president). She can't wait to go back to Stanford University; and plans to write a book.

The Democrats are all hot and bothered over Gov. Palin because the Democrats are poised to possibly have a 12-seat, or more, majority in the Senate in January yet could end up with a Republican woman as President of the Senate.

No geevill,

I'm am definitely not an "Obamabot." I've never voted for a democrat in my life and never will.

I'm sorry that you grossly misinterpretted what I was saying, so I will simplify it. I am not happy with Palin as McCain's pick. Just because I don't like Palin, and I prefer Rice and Hutchinson, DOES NOT make me a Democrat. I think for those of us conservatives who actaully care about who's in charge of the country think that Palin is a big '?'.

My point of bringing up Pawlenty, Ridge, and Romney was to illustrate that Palin is still very much an up-and-comer in the party. She has a short track record. While there is nothing superficially wrong with her, I think that in the long-run she'll be a weak VP.

A lot of conservatives are basically saying, "Oh cool. I've never heard of Palin before but I like what I justread about her today." Honestly geevill, could you have told me a thing about her before this morning? As I said before, I think she is a fine leader, for the state of Alaska. However, if McCain were to tap Romney as his VP pick I think that most of us would be much happier and wouldn't bat an eyelash at Palin being over-looked.

No Tina,

you obammabots would of been saying MCCain picked another rich white male out of touch with "kitchen table" issues.

How come nobody has asked how many houses Sarah Palin owns?

I like to wonder what peoples' reactions would have been if McCain had opted for Romney, Pawlenty or Ridge. How many people would have said, "Well that was stupid of McCain to pass on Sarah Palin." I suspect that the number would have been relatively small.

While it is no surprise that McCain chose a female as his running mate, since he has expressed the desire to do so on several occassions, I wonder why he chose Palin over Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Condolizza Rice.

Palin is a "neat" pick because she is young and stood up against members of her own party. However, I can't really imagine her leading the U.S. out of Iraq, nor her standing up to China and Russia. I really think the Russians will view her as a joke.

I do not, in any way, think that Palin is a bad leader. I think she has been great for the state of Alaska. She uprooted plenty of corruption from the state. But I wonder how her experience in Alaska is even remotely relevant to leading the other 49 states? Rice and Hutchinson have far more relevant experience.

I'm worried that McCain has sold the American people short on a VP in order to put distance between himself and the Bush administration. But I'm even more concerned that this is a hint of McCain
s desire to begin to pull away from the Republican party in general.

Hey Davis, you guys are soooo screwed. American won't fight their Moms. Not even for Obama. Bring out your thugs. Mom will bring cookies.

What do you think we're gonna pick?

I love this. It's the single smartest most savvy move I've seen in this election. In day, to completely and irrevocably change the emotional dynamic of a nation from one of awe to one of humor and in so doing to unhorse the most smug candidate that ever ran.

This is just sooooo cool.

Ryan C.:

What foreign policy experience does Obama have? Were you worried about that with him?

"Would you people please stop saying that Obama has been in the Senate for 4 years!! He may have been elected that long ago, but he has spent 143 days on the Senate floor (and most of that was spent planning to and running for president)...the Governor of ANY state puts in more work than that in a six months!"

Obama missed only 11 votes in the 109th session of Congress. He has missed 45% of the current session.

In comparison McCain missed 65 votes in the 109th and has missed 63% so far this session.

We face grave challenges as a nation both at home and abroad and McCain picks someone with zero foreign policy experience and scant public office experience.

She won't be able to buy high approval ratings by handing out $1200 oil royalties as VP.

Thinkerton,

It doesn't matter if its true or not. Thru rote reptition the right wing hopes their lies grow.

Their meme is that she has more executive experience that Obama or Biden.

Well she has more executive experience than McCain too.

But her experience in reality is being mayor of a small town for a few years (before which she was on the town council) and being in the 2nd year of her 1st term for statewide office.