McCain Makes His Choice

[Beachcomber]

I think McCain is banking on Hillary supporters being so adamant about not supporting Obama he sweetened the deal by naming a woman running mate. First woman V/P candidate in 24 yrs.

[travelinman]

Originally posted by The Big Sexy:
So she's chief executive of a state with a population smaller than that of Hamilton County, who will be beholden to Big Oil.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You should do some reading before putting foot in mouth.

"Energy and environment

Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska[30], and also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits.[23][26] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors to address climate change reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[31]

In response to high oil and gas prices, and the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[43] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly, paid for partially by the money given to the state of Alaska that was to be spent on the "Bridge to Nowhere,"[citation needed] and eliminate the state sales tax on gasoline.[44]"

[travelinman]

Palin has a long history of run-ins with the Alaska GOP hierarchy, giving her genuine maverick status and reformer credentials that could complement McCain's image.

Her husband, Todd Palin, is part Yup'ik Eskimo, and is a blue-collar North Slope oil worker who competes in the Iron Dog, a 1,900-mile snowmobile race.

[travelinman]

<font color="#CC6600" size="1">[ August 30, 2008 07:45 AM: Message edited by: travelinman ]</font>

[gae]

She's fat. Her kids are fat.

More legislation coming our way? I think so.

[travelinman]

Originally posted by The Big Sexy:

I don't think someone who has been Governor for a year and a half of one of the least populous states after spending a few years as a mayor of a town of 6,500 is going to be telling too many people what to do.

<font color="#CC6600"><font size="1">[ August 31, 2008 12:46 AM: Message edited by: The Big Sexy ]</font></font>

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why not for someone who has only been to Canada you think you're an expert on international relations

[Sean Pa]

God I love American Politics, "You cant make this stuff up

[reason]

Originally posted by travelinman:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Big Sexy:
So she's chief executive of a state with a population smaller than that of Hamilton County, who will be beholden to Big Oil.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You should do some reading before putting foot in mouth.

"Energy and environment

Palin has strongly promoted oil resource development in Alaska[30], and also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits.[23][26] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors to address climate change reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[31]

In response to high oil and gas prices, and the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[43] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly, paid for partially by the money given to the state of Alaska that was to be spent on the "Bridge to Nowhere,"[citation needed] and eliminate the state sales tax on gasoline.[44]"</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for posting yesterday's news, though I think it's really funny you went to Wikipedia to cut and paste.

She's pro-drilling, the nonanswer to our problems. And if you think she's not going to be pro oil when she's second in power, I got some swampland in Florida to sell you.

She won't be doing any income redistribution from here on out.

I don't think someone who has been Governor for a year and a half of one of the least populous states after spending a few years as a mayor of a town of 6,500 is going to be telling too many people what to do.

<font color="#CC6600" size="1">[ August 31, 2008 12:46 AM: Message edited by: The Big Sexy ]</font>

[reason]

Originally posted by gae:
She's fat. Her kids are fat.

More legislation coming our way? I think so.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your buddy, George, is responsible for record new regulations. Not a peep out of you.

[travelinman]

Experience is More Than a Punched Amtrak Ticket
By Geoffrey P. Hunt

Critics from both political parties having doubts about Sarah Palin have seized upon her limited experience. But what kind of experience are they talking about? Normally level headed pundits like Mort Kondracke and former Clintonites like Dee Dee Myers both seriously believe the experience that matters is time-in-grade accompanied by appearances on Meet-the-Press and face-offs with the Washington DC press corps.

And the Obama campaign asserts with a straight face that Joe Biden's experience, nearly 40 years of Amtrak round trip ticket punching from Union Station to Wilmington, Delaware is of vice presidential grade, if not fully Oval Office timbre itself.

Fortunately John McCain knows experience that matters means achieving something noteworthy, if not remarkable, requiring fearless leadership in execution. Traditionally a leader has been defined as someone who could harness the energy of people around him or her in order to do something monumental, undertaking considerable risk, where the outcome was uncertain: for example launch a new company, eradicate a disease, build a canal or a railroad, lead an expedition to and from Antarctica, land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth, win a battle or a war, or found a new nation.

Instead leaders today are defined by the Beltway gang as anyone eloquent in mastering the teleprompter, delivering the 30 second elevator speech and commanding the best talk show sound bite. Which perfectly describes Barack Obama but is wholly inadequate, unworthy, and out of touch with mainstream Americans in defining Sarah Palin.

Barack Obama on occasion delivers a captivating speech. Not much content but it sure sounds special. A single speech on behalf of John Kerry in 2004 propelled Obama to the only noteworthy accomplishment in his entire life-seizing the Democrat party presidential nomination in 2008. Of course this dubious milestone is more attributable to the gullibility of Democrats and their guilt ridden endorsement of Obama's racial identity politics rather than any substantive claims by "the One". Otherwise he has done nothing special; in fact absolutely nothing to get where he is let alone deserve the White House.

At least Joe Biden has won reelection to the US Senate, albeit for the smallest most lackluster state in the Union, and to be blunt, first in a pig's race. But for 40 years Joe Biden hasn't accomplished much more than Obama, except gain tenure. But he's been on Meet-the-Press and has miles of C-Span videotape under his belt. I suppose browbeating four star generals and insulting Republican Supreme Court nominees passes for heroism these days.

Now contrast this empty set of resumes with Sarah Palin. In less than two years, in a frontier rodeo which is Alaska politics, she already has a documented trail of stunning achievements. She has forced the reevaluation of oil and gas property, provoked more oil and gas output while spearheading a $40 billion pipeline construction, penned over 300 vetoes to kill pork barrel spending all while ousting corrupt careerist Alaskan politicians from her own party.

In 18 months she has put dollars back into taxpayers' pockets, rejuvenated the petro jobs economy of Alaska, is showing the way for this nation to achieve energy independence and has produced the first genuine reform government since Teddy Roosevelt in New York State. In 18 months, apart from gaining pop stardom, what has Barack Obama done?

John Quincy Adams perhaps had the best resume ever to be president. Yet, his single term initiatives were sidetracked by political intrigue and bitter infighting, where Andrew Jackson prevailed, denying Adams a second term. None of the statesman-diplomat skills acquired as an apprentice to his father, later reinforced by appointments as president Madison's ambassador to Russia and Great Britain and as president Monroe's secretary of state, could save him.

Harry Truman, certainly one of, if not the most unlikely of men to occupy the White House, as vice president wasn't even close enough to be in FDR's shadow. Yet Truman attained greatness with four momentous decisions-Hiroshima, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine for Soviet containment and the Berlin airlift. And let's not forget desegregating the military.

Does Sarah Palin have enough experience that matters to be vice president? Well despite it being a work-in-progress, her experience is more than either of the candidates across the aisle. More important it's the kind of experience that matters to regular Joes and Marys everywhere but in Washington, DC whose punditry in residence will never comprehend.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/...an_a_punc.html

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