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Noah -> RE: Do you really think Sarah Palin is ready to be VP of the USA? (10/2/2008 12:24:25 AM)
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the Heretic
Mia, if McCain wins, there is a chance Sarah Palin could become president. If Obama wins, it is a certainty he will be.
Yes, I do believe she is more up to that awesome responsibility than he is. And they aren't running for the same job.
Oh for heaven's sake. Palin says she's qualified to be Commander in Chief based on her role with the Alaskan Guard. As I understand it at least 14 Alaskan Guard members had died in the current crisis by the time she was offered the VP spot. At that point, when asked her position on the war she told a reporter something along the lines of: "I haven't given it much thought".
The citizen soldiers she claims to command are being blown up in a war she hasn't so much as given thought to. And you think she is ready to decide when and where to commit the lives of the American military a few months from now?
She claims she's fit to direct American foreign policy based on a trip to Kuwait with a layover in Ireland, and the the fact that from an island she's never visited, a few hundred of her nearly destitute citizens can see a small Russian island on a clear day.
And you believe her. That's great.
Laura Bush doesn't think Palin's ready. She said so in plain language, and went on to say that she will proudly vote for Palin anyway. The Conservative Icon George Will says that Palin isn't ready. Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker says Palin isn't ready (and is getting threats in the mail for saying so, apparently http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002315.html)
Palin say's she's ready to direct the American economy and clean up Washington based on running an Alaskan village where she ran up a huge debt where none existed before, and being the scandal-plagued Governor of the tiny population of Alaska for less than two years--in political bed with Stevens, the consumate crooked Washington Insider.
All this in the State where this year Palin spoke to a secessionist group of which her husband has been a dedicated member for several years, wishing them good luck with their goals. Not to put too fine a point a point on it but this woman you say is ready to lead the United States was wishing good luck to a group the still-revered founder of which swore that fires of hell were like Alaskan glaciers compared to the heat of his hatred for the United States of America.
This woman who could not name a single Supreme Court decision except Roe vs. Wade is, in your opinion, ready on day one to appoint new Justices as soon as the need should arise.
It is clear from your posts that you're a pretty bright guy. Therefore you do not believe that Sarah Palin is ready to be President of the United States come, say, late January 2009.
Oh, but being so bright you never said that you believe Palin is ready, did you? Instead of some Straight Talk in response to the topic you couched your response in terms of some sort of comparison gambit with Obama.
Do you have the stones to return and offer a sincere yes or no to the topic question?
I believe the fact is that you don't believe Palin is fit to serve as President. Accordingly you presumably believe that McCain did not put "Country First" in choosing her but put politics first in a supremely risky fashion, hardly the behavior anyone with conservative leanings would want his candidate to do.
McCain admits in his autobiography that he recorded propoganda for the Communists in Viet Nam. I won't condemn him for saving his skin--though the families of other prisoners who died rather than turn against their fellow Americans may have the right to do so. I am incensed, however, that McCain allows himself to be called a "hero" and has tried a hundred times times to insulate himself from responsible criticism with this "hero" cloak.
Surviving by whatever cowardly means present themselves may or may not be justifiable. It isn't heroic. Period.
I'll be voting for a candidate who didn't admit to Treason in Time of War in his autobiography (treason which he felt real bad about after it got him medical treatement of a kind that was denied to his braver prisonmates, some of whom died as a result). I'll be voting for a candidate who didn't anoint a vengeful apocolyptic fundamentalist as the next person in line to control the world's biggest nuclear arsenal.
You go ahead and vote for the "populist" who doesn't know how many cars or houses he owns; who thinks anyone making less than $5 mil a year is Middle Class; who thinks "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" and who doesn't know the Sunnis from the Shia nor what countries border the one where we are now at war.
Vote for the old, sick guy whose running mate you do not believe is ready to do the job she may be called on to do.
And then, to put a feather in it, tell yourslf that this aligns with Conservative political values.
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