What does that mean, “real world experience”? When Obama took 3 years out of his life to help the poor in Chicago that wasn’t the real world? When Biden met with world leaders that wasn’t the real world? According to that argument she has more “real-world” experience than McCain too, so I guess he should be VP instead of her. Besides, how is being a beauty queen and TV sports reporter more “real-world” than anything Obama/Biden offer, how is that going to give her insight into running the country?

As for government experience, Obama has a total of 11 years government experience to her 10, that’s local/state/national combined for both, and Obama’s were in a more populated state with a bigger budget than Alaska.

If I look at her record it is unimpressive, no matter her gender, and there is more weight to her “trooper-gate” scandal than the similarly named “scandal” connected to Hillary that the right-wing has harped on for years.

It’s funny that many conservatives are pulling the gender card now, since I recall Anne Coulter arguing that a female shouldn’t be president (or even have the right to vote) in her attacks on Hillary Clinton. How much outrage was there among conservatives over Coulter’s comments?

If she were a liberal and part of a DEM ticket the conservatives would be eviscerating her on her LACK of executive experience (small town mayor, only 2 years as governor), instead they are praising it, because well. . . that’s partisan politics for you; it doesn’t matter how qualified she is, only that she’s on your team.

Or is she unqualified simply because she’s a broad?

Trying to bring religion into the classroom is a HUGE mistake. The separation of church and state was established a long time ago and for good reasons. There would be a movement against religion in the classroom and would put a lot of people in bad situations.

If Obama had picked someone like Palin, then the Republicans would be pulling the same stunt, so there is no excuse for this. She is no Hillary Clinton. Everything that Hillary and many other women have stood up for will go out the window with this sad joke of a veep. Republicans are trying to find every little thing they can to make themselves feel better because they all know that things are getting worse for their party. A woman is certainly not the key to winning the election just based on the fact that she is a woman. Why her and not someone else with REAL experience? There are a number of other Republican women who are more qualified for the veep position but it’s obvious that McCain has picked her because of her looks, her age, and the fact that she doesn’t know as much about politics as he does because anyone else would be a threat to his intelligence.

Palin is going to wipe the floor with Biden. His smugness and sense of entitlement, when compared to someone who’s actually had to work for a living, is going to be palpable.

If you want to beat Palin, understand what makes her strong: her appeal to conservatives is based on her being pro-life, pro-guns, pro-victory, and standing up to corruption. Her base is ecstatic that someone who believes in tax cuts and rejecting earmarks has been selected. Biden, with his track record, must be very careful. And Democrats cautioning that she has no experience are of course forgetting that Obama’s experience to date is that he’s written a nice book.

Palin is as cynical a choice for VP as Clarence Thomas was for the Supreme Court. And for exactly the same reason. Thomas will never grow into the shoes of Thurgood Marshall. He was chosen as an African American of the far right who would trample the hard won gains of the civil rights era.

Palin is a few feet shy of the stature to take over the presidency. She was chosen as a woman of the far right who would trample the hard won gains of women’s rights.

Both of them are small human beings, intellectually and morally. Their xianity is not a substitute for foreign or public policy.

McCain’s calculated cynicism at the same times betrays his lack of judgment and his essentially frivolous nature. He finally capitulated to the death impulse of the christo-fascists who now control his party; those who look forward with glee to a nuclear Armageddon.

Now, the choice is stark. McPain and a continued assault on the Constitution by ignorant, arrogant “servants” of an imperial presidency. Or, Obama-Biden and a chance to undo the harm suffered by the Republic from the Bush-Cheney thugs.

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