As long as you aren't a member of the far right lunatic fringe - I'd vote for you.

Age/measurements, plz? And links to pics and/or video.

--do you look like Tina Fey?

maybe I should be the veep.

But you have as much of a chance of getting elected as Sarah Palin does. In a few weeks she'll be back in Alaska, and I predict she'll have trouble being reelected when her term is up.

Oh wait, no; it was that other town.

Word!

1975 called and they want their mall back.

I dunno if you can. How's your foreign policy expertise? Can you see Mexico from your house?

but I bet he can find Mexicans, Hondurans, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Ethiopian, wheat-gluten free, vegan, and just about any other cuisine in Berkeley. :-)

Sarah Palin is so early-October. Can you unclog a drain?

i was not only president of my junior high, but also prime minister in the high school junior parliament.

You just wrote an article for Salon. You must, therefore, be a liberal nut. Hence, you are unqualified. And your analogy is stupid anyway. Palin is a governor of a state. Duh!

Get back to us when you have been governor of one of the 50 states.

Issue a press release promising you were not part of the political crowd involved in the Bay Bridge boondoggle and you have my vote.

Mark,

Thank you for the comic relief . . .I think your article along with a couple of tylenol pms will let me sleep tonight :)

I'm sure we were friends in High School . ..so can I be secretary of state? I'm qualified as I've been to at least half of em (FL, NY, NJ, CT, MA, CA, CO, NM . .you get the picture.)

Morons will feast upon stale crumbs, so your effort is not lost.

Clinton was the governor of a hillbilly state.

Bush was the governor of a big hat cowboy state.

Reagan was the governor of the flakiest state in the union.

Carter was governor of Georgia.

So Palin is qualified to be president.

Next Sarah Palin joke, please?

This one has mold growing on it.

But you won't have all the qualifications of Pig until you're willing to prove you love power more than your own children by throwing your pregnant daughter under the bus, exposing her to the ridicule and contempt of the entire American public. You also need a large base of desperate, infatuated fanboys like THawk7, who spend their days beating off in their mother's basements while writing 6 or 7 letters-to-the-editor per day calling liberals doodyheads.

has done more to shine a light on the tolerance and acceptance of the Democratic Party, than any amount of money John McCain could have spent. If she were a liberal with the same familial conditions, she would be held up as a supreme example of what a working mother should look like.

Your agenda comes before people, and that will be the reason you lose this election. When you vet a working man for asking a question, you send a message to the nation. We got the message.

...the original home of Mickey Mouse. Most natural blues can take care of themselves.

Were you ever a state governor?

Dork.

I am like Jill Fl who commented first! If she isn't a card carrying member of the far right lunatic fringe. I will vote for her. She looks a whole lot better than Sarah Palin!

Read the Constitution: none.

Mark is qualified to be vice-president. And so am I, and so is the person who sits next to you on the bus in the morning.

Some people might call that egalitarianism.

I find it very insyulting for a former mayor of a small suburb to say that his governing experience is equal to Sarah Palin's. She is the governor of a state with nearly 700,000 residents. Only the mayor of Memphis Tennesee could claim to be her equal. (Then again, with three senators on two tickets, who have never governed anything larget than a senate office, the point itself is moot)

The Consitution doesn't list any *requirements* for VP, other than being a citizen of a certain age.

*Qualifications* is a whole different thing.

Sarah Palin has the requirements but not the qualifications.

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"I can see the moon from my house. Does that make me an astronaut?"

Humor in the form of irony or satire is entirely lost on the Republicans who frequent these threads.

I'm afraid some of you just don't get it. Sarah Palin IS the joke. And John McCain is the punchline.

That joke might work if Palin's only experience was that she was a mayor. It appears to have escaped Friedman's notice (and nearly everybody here) that Palin is currently the governor of Alaska, not a mayor of a small town.

Hey, do y'all at Salon actually pay folks to write such utter bullshit? And where do I sign up?

"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States."

There are no listed qualifications in the Constitution for vice-president -- just for president. Nothing says the vice-president has to be 35, or a citizen. If the president picked a 28-year-old non-citizen for VP and died in office, that person becomes president. I doubt, however, that a person who became president under such circumstances could stand for election to the presidency in the next election.

That's not really the point, however. The talk of Palin not being "qualified" for the office of vice-president simply begs the question of what those qualifications are. No one can articulate a set of criteria that isn't based on their own ideas of what's important in a candidate, because there really aren't any.

It's enough to oppose Palin based on her political positions. The "qualifications" argument smacks of elitism and faux objectivity.