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Bad Choice:
Sen. McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate was sloppy, arrogant and irresponsible. The Constitution originally gave the Presidency to the Electoral College winner and the VP slot to the second-place finisher, expecting that two very-capable people would be in office together. Aside from being President of the Senate, the VP is supposed to be ready to succeed the President. No, Sarah Palin is not the most-qualified person in the Republican Party to succeed to the most powerful job in the world, "quick-study" or not. I disagree that the family business should be hands-off. I mind that a possible Vice-President has an irresponsible daughter whose parents do not or cannot supervise her under-age actions. I also don't wonder, as many people don't, how this revelation would have been handled by the Republicans if the VP candidate had been a Democrat. They would have made it a great scandal, of course.
Good Choice:
I am looking forward to the Vice-Presidental candidates' debate. People will understand that Joe Biden represents what the nation's founders expected in a Vice-President and that Gov. Palin ought to go back to the Governor's Mansion in Juneau and fill out the balance of her term doing the job the voters of Alaska elected her to do.
