Obama reacts to Palin on two tracks

I don't think Obama or his top staffers should be too concerned with exposing Palin as grossly unqualified. If the media does its job - a big "if," I concede - this will become painfully clear to all in very short order.

Go McCain! I'd rather an unqualified VP than an unqualified President!

Obama and Biden vote for things. Never ran anything.

Palin ran a small town hands on. Gov of a huge state.

She has more exec experience than both combined.

We are voting for an exec not a staff guy who just votes

She's far better prepared to be Pres than either Obama or
Biden.

The best way to save the Republican Party now is to destroy it. In the marketplace of ideas, social conservatism is a viral infection contaminating the GOP. It represents an evolutionary dead-end whose logical conclusion is fascism if not outright totalitarianism. Is it not obvious that the imposition of the evangelical ideology--any fundamentalist ideology for that matter--lies in direct opposition to a free people in a democratic land? Our Constitution, specifically the separation of church and state, no longer serves as a bulwark against the morality police, who seek to impose faith-based notions such as creationism upon those of us with rational minds. Social conservatives aim to constrain freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom to pursue happiness. These freedoms live at the heart of an entrepreneurial and economically strong America. No doubt, the diktat the social conservative movement wishes to impose upon ALL us Americans is antithetical to a free market system, and therefore exists as hypocrisy within the Republican platform. Privatize profits, socialize losses, and make religion the opiate of the masses. Indeed, this has been a dark eight years of Orwellian doubletalk. Enough! I’m a Reagan Republican and I’m voting for Libertarian Bob Barr.

Gov. Palin is the only one of the four in this campaign - including McCain - who has actually oversaw/run something. That Something? 5 BILLION economy of Alaska. She is a proven reformer who will go after even her own party. This certainly shows McCain's smart decision making ability. Obama, who is reeling from no bump in the polls, is losing momentum and more folks are figuring out he has nothing to offer except hope.

Smart move by McCain's handlers! Palin's rabid devotion to "bibles, babies, and bullets" will appeal to millions of desperate, bitter voters who blame liberal values for everything from obesity rates to high gas prices. These voters don't want a solution, they want a miracle and expect Palin to deliver.

Not such a smart move on Palin's part. She wasn't picked for her governance or reasoning skills, she was picked for her appeal to millions of irrational voters targeted and exploited by Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh.

The Daily Kos and several other sites are currently reporting that John McCains new running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, may not being exactly straightforward about her baby son Trig Paxson Van Palin. They are saying he is her grandson and his mother is really Gov. Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol…
I guess this all starts back in March when Ms. Palin announced she was prego… and that she was already about seven months along…
The news that the pregnancy is so advanced astonished all who heard it, because the governor didn’t look seven months pregnant.

What do Alaska People and Media Think of Palin?

Some Alaska newspapers have questioned McCain's choice. An Aug. 29 editorial in the Fairbanks News-Miner newspaper raised questions about Palin's readiness for national office. Regardless of her charm and good intentions, Palin is not ready for the top job,'' the newspaper wrote. ``McCain seems to have put his political interests ahead of the nations.''
The Anchorage Daily News, the state's largest paper, noted in an editorial that Palin is enmeshed in a legislative investigation of her July 11 firing of the state's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan. Monegan has asserted that he received pressure from Palin's family and administration to fire a state trooper involved in a contentious divorce from Palin's sister.
A supporter of Palin's 2006 run for governor and a former staff member -- expressed reservations about the choice. ‘‘She's not qualified, she doesn't have the judgment to be next in line to the president of the United States.''
Another supporter of Palin's campaign for governor, Jim Whitaker, the Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, also questioned Palin's readiness to serve as vice president in a phone interview yesterday.

GOP state Rep. Mike Hawker says that Palin is against abortion even
in cases of rape and incest, sued the federal government to take polar bears off the endangered species list, has said creationism should be taught in schools and advocated a constitutional ban on providing healthcare benefits to same-sex partners. Palin has not paid attention to other critically important issues. She has little interest to the rest of the unglamorous side of government," said Hawker, "whether it is dealing with human services, public services, highways, all the routine aspects." For example, benefits threshold for children and pregnant women in Alaska are 175% of the poverty level while in most states such benefits are at 200% to 250%.
The RNC script for Palin is to split the women vote and woe the white male votes in Red States like Alaska, Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, Montana, North Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and New Hampshire. If McCain wins in 2008, Palin’s second mission is to close-out Hillary ascension to the White House in 2012. It is a “Divide and Rule” doctrine based on political interests, a continuation of the 2000 and 2004 RNC schemes. We only have to wait to see if such a scheme will succeed three times in a role. It could win or terribly backfire!

Oh, Obama, you liar.........change is what you have preached. Do you really, r e a l l y think Biden is CHANGE? and do you mean the change we will have left when we pay the taxes you propose is CHANGE? While you campaign with Biden while the Gulf Coast citizens are fleeing their homes, wondering if they will still be there next week, and the loss of lives which have and will occur because of Gustav, you continue campaigning for voted, believing that emailing for donations is the right thing to do. You keep emailing for donations for your campaign. You say Palin has no foreign affairs experience; look in the mirror, man. You have none. She is running for VP and McCain will be an excellent foreign affairs teacher for her. You are running for President; you should already have the experience as you will have no time to learn from Biden. You are known for your arrogance; you do not listen to others as you seem to believe you know it all, as you would not listen to our generals or chiefs of staff. You are a phoney man and we, the Americans, know nothing about you as you don't want us to. You tell us what you want us to believe to get votes. You are a wonderful speaker but you have a forked tongue. You are not decent material for commander in chief and our leader.

LMAO @ BARRACH HUSSEIN OBAMA...

The dems are sooooo scared it is pathetic. They want to battle this woman, I say go for it... But it is going to be like being bit by a pit bull.

OBAMA, your a fine one to be speaking of "NO EXPERIENCE" since you do not have it yourself and PALIN has more than you do..

Absolutely. Anyone that wants to put America first must go at it aggressively and from all angles. No stones unturned. Need to stay on offense:
- Clearly, not CIC material.
- Clearly a right winger if there ever was one.
- Clearly a maverick choice of running mate that is putting America at risk. If McCain and Palin are elected she is a heart beat away from CIC with a man who already has one foot in the grave.
- Clearly speaks volumes about McCain and the Republicavemen's motives and underestimation of the intelligence of Americans.
- Clearly a Rovian decision, and too clever by half
- Clearly a good move for Palin who has a political future ahead of her. I think she can get through the campaign season intact, which will be good experience.

The arguments and talking points put out by the Republi-cavemen (and now one cave woman) will be seen as just that - talking points. This move shores up McCain's base, but moves the country another step backward. Something America can ill afford - back to the past (as opposed to the future) on the Bush and Cheney train.

A couple of comments are needed here:

1. McCain's Decision-making process should be questioned. Can the USA survive another 4 (8?) years with a President who shoots first and asks questions later?

Here is what McCain says about his own desicion-making process in the 2002 book “Worth the Fighting For” which he co-wrote with Mark Salter:

“I make them (decisions) as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, if I can,” ...furthermore... “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”

McCain's actions since choosing Palin are already indicative of somebody who is dealing with a bad case of "buyer's remorse" over his recent VP decision.

2. Palin is strongly against abortion under *any* circumstances. Good for her, what does that mean to the rest of us women in the USA? Some of us disagree with her on that subject.

Palin has a four-month old baby with Down's Syndrom, her 5th child. Maybe God is telling her to stop having babies.

Not all women who have a sick child are able to afford health care for the baby the way that Palin can afford health care for her sick baby. Not all women who have sick children are married to a guy with a fleet of fishing boats who can support her. Not all women who have a sick child are Governor of a State in the United States that pays for her health care.

For those of us who don't have wonderful health care as she does, having a sick child is serious business. It means not being able to pay the bills. Home foreclosure. Bankruptcy. Under the Bush/McCain health care proposal a woman caring for a sick baby ends up sleeping on the street, looking for handouts and has no health care options for the sick child. No woman wants to have an abortion, it should be a *last* option. But, it *should be* an option. Palin has publicly stated that even if her own daughter were raped she would want her daughter to have the baby. Ah, ok. Every woman in the US is not Palin's daughter. Personally, I wouldn't have the baby. Palin and McCain would make that type of abortion a criminal offense and have the raped woman be arrested for an illegal abortion. Think about that, the victim becomes the criminal under the new Bush/McCain/Palin administrion.

What the frig is an administrion?

Now let me get this straight. The obama camp wants to cry that Palin has 'no' experience? Perhaps they should keep on kicking their rear ends because they didn't choose HILLARY as VP. (which would have been the 'best' choice). This registered Democrat will vote for McCain.

Barack Hussein Obama had a very un-American upbringing surrounded by radicals/socialists, etc. He says we should be "Our Brother's Keeper" - that's code for Socialism. Funny thing is his half-brother lives in a hut in Africa on $1 per month. Nice job Obama - why don't you help your brother first - maybe he can get some of your HOPE.
Obama isn't qualified to be anything more than a lowly college professor.
He was in the Senate for 143 days when we began running for President. The audacity of nothing.

"Palin ran a small town hands on. Gov of a huge state."

Half a million people does not a huge state make. What exactly are you talking about? If you're politically backward, and you enjoy voting for other, similarly, backwards folks, go ahead. At least, though, try to have an argument for your stupidity that makes sense. Though that may be a lot to ask.

ha ha ha lets pay more taxes yay

lets raise welfare

who wants to work? Not me

Vote for Obama

Give the lady a shot, if you don't like her, it's simply don't vote for the McCain Ticket,
Me, I'm sticking with McCain/Palin, Obama scares the Hell out of me!!!
Remember that old saying, The Devil you Know! or the Devil you do not know!!

Jane Dough's "personally I wouldn't have the baby" remark is a callous me me me outlook towards life. The same mentality as Obamamessiah who voted to allow the murder of children born after a botched abortion.

Jane Dough is as narcissistic as her deranged leader.

Obama, who is reeling from no bump in the polls, is losing momentum and more folks are figuring out he has nothing to offer except hope.
Posted by John Wayland August 31, 08 04

I think Mr Wayland, hope is a substantial thing to offer at this time. In fact after 8 bush years that sounds beautiful!

Concerning the charge that Obama hasn't 'run' anything, I would remind readers that over the past 19 months, he has run a campaign that brought in close to $400 million in donations from perhaps twice as many people as the entire Alaskan population. He has attracted staff and volunteers in numbers that significantly outnumber the entire Alaskan government. And he built that movement. He built it. It wasn't a pre-formed organization that was handed to him, as with Palin's governorship. If we are to compare the two, I would look less to Palin's thin experience as governor, and instead to the campaign that she ran to get there. She was spunky, indeed. But she hasn't shown that she can build and run an organization as well as Barack Obama has. Not even close.

When McCain came back from Vietnam, he cheated repeatedly on his crippled wife, and then divorced her to marry Cindy Hensley. In the 1980's McCain lobbied for Charles Keating, the saving and loan felon who stole billions in pension money, and took numerous jet set vacations at Keating's expense. In the 1990's McCain had an affair with a lobbyist that so scared his staff, that they told her to stay away from him. His campaigns for the Senate were all financed with his wife Cindy's mob money. In 1994 Cindy McCain forged prescriptions in the names of her employees and stole drugs from her own charity. McCain's campaign this year is getting huge amounts of oil company money. His pick for vice president is under an ethics investigation and will probably be indicted on Oct 31st. McCain is 72 years old, has had cancer 5 times and is on 5 different medications. He is so out of it, that his staff will no longer let him talk to the press unscripted.

Barak Obama graduated from Harvard Law School and went back to his community to help people who had lost their jobs when the plants shut down. He met his wife at the law firm where the worked together, and he has never cheated on his wife, and she has never forged prescriptions or stolen drugs. Obama has never lobbied for anyone that stole billions of dollars from pensioners. Obama's campaign is financed by 1.5 million contributors. Obama's pick for vice president has spent 30 years in the U.S. Senate and is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Obama is taking no medications and is available to talk to the press unscripted. His three main priorities for America are getting out of Iraq, universal healthcare, and American energy independence.

There is no question in my mind which one of these men will make a better president.

All the Republican smear tactics in the world cannot change these facts.

The GOP has lost their minds completely..... wow

Deaverb@aol.com, if we take your argument, that "executive" experience (no matter the context or scale) is the exclusive credential needed for the highest office in the land, then yes Sarah Palin is more "experienced" than Obama. Actually that would make her more experienced than Obama and Biden COMBINED. Hmmm.
Most people however see through this republican talking point. There is infact a difference between being the mayor of a village of 7000 and the governor of a backwater state, and being the "CEO" of say.... a 20-month long, multi-million dollar (inter)national campaign for the presidency. Throughout his campaign, under enormous scrutiny, Obama has displayed the managerial judgement, leadership and intelligence worthy of a world leader. Sarah Palin is dangerously out of her depth thanks to McCain. This really is just a silly VP choice, selected purely on political grounds to try to dupe an uncritical electorate who will vote for her (as opposed to McCain) because they like her down-home biography.

The truth is the Democrat hierachy make a grave error during the Primaries in cutting off Hilliary Clintons path to victory in favor of Obama.Obama was given the opportunity to mend the broken fence by selecting Hilliary as his VP but he opted for Joe Biden and that really makes Hilliary Clinton supporter furious.Now who really is to blame here is noone but the Democrat Party hierachy and Obama himself because selecting Hilliary on his ticket isn't much of a risk than leaving her out.Liberal is beating the wrong horse instead of their own for not picking a woman,sorry dems we can't help you on that.

Palin has the executive experience of managing a town whose population was less than a tenth of the crowd that attended Obama's acceptance speech .. some executive experience that is.

Its too bad if Obama thinks he has to not over-play how intelligent he is just because our society is so crassly anti-intellectual. Here we are the nation which has created the greatest university and college systems in history, and yet the panderers think they have a better shot at winning over the masses with a Vice who is a former sports-caster, basketball player, and beauty queen who thinks that the Earth is just a few thousand years old.

Is this the only phrase they've been using how many times,four more years,four more years can't the Obama campaign say anything differrent rather than repeating themselves.They seems to suggest that they want four more years of a Republican President whow,they really do like Sarah Palin/Mccain ticket.

Someone said here "Obama offers nothing but hope."

Well... Hope for liberty kept John McCain alive in a Viet Nam prison cell. Abiding hope is the foundation for all spiritual and idealist thought. Passionate hope goes with our children in our support of their dreams and happiness. Impossible hope helped realize JFK's vision of a moon-landing and a less rankist America. I could go on... To give real hope is ideally to motivate and empower, and to grant the ability to defer gratification and act unselfishly. Obama offers more than just hope, I am certain, but hope is what leaders who do not rule by force and fear but by integrity and reason are supposed to inspire.

Only those who have completely LOST hope are disparaging about it.

Hope. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

Who would like lower taxes, where my money becomes my money, and less entitlement programs. Me!!!

McCain made an irresponsible choice in Palin. She is absolutley NOT qualified to lead this country in the event that McCain cannot. No matter how you make the argument. She is a poor choice. His decision making processes should be called into question as this was certainly a knee-jerk reaction. As for media attacks??? She is under the same spotlight that has been held to any other person running for public office. Time for a new excuse people. Vote Obama/Biden!