Who cares WHAT you think?

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I think it was Obama who pitted

the blacks against the women.

-- sonofloud

To the person who mentioned her earlier in the comments here:

I can't get that image out of my head now with each picture of Palin I come across. Tina Fey for VP, yeah!

Thanks for the laugh :)

I just listened to Palin and she sounds like the lady down the street. So, why would anyone want to have her a hair away from the presidency? I've read her bio and she's stunningly lacking in education, credentials, and experience. The only caveat is that she has been governor for a year, although Alaska is sparsely populated. What about her economic policies? Is she prepared to tackle the deficit that was created by the Bush White House? As for her ethics, I'm stunned that this person who is accused of official corruption and retribution has been allowed to join McCain's ticket. The investigation is ongoing.

McCain has clearly chosen Palin in order to peel off some PUMAs. That's it. Good luck McCain. You'll need it.

20 feet?

Obama's work just got harder.

Homeschooling your kids? Homeschooling your DOWNS kid?

What, the taxpayers are footing some of the bills?

Availing yourself of any services paid for by the "GADS"...GOVERNMENT?

How is her health plan compared to the average Alaskan? Or average Native American on the Reservations?

She is a looker though. I don't know about voting for her, but I'd do her. I'd so do her.

Definitely not a lightweight. Biden is going to have his hands full.

With all these right wing sock puppets infesting Salon.

Who is raising her Downs syndrome baby?

After a spectacular (literally) acceptance speech by Obama last night, it's beyond believe that McCain would be so checked out as to think that choosing Sarah Palin as VP is somehow going to help him win the Presidency.

Of course we get it: She's young, attractive, has made a national splash as Alaska's first woman governor. (Who's playing the celebrity card, now?) But the positive attributes for her VP candidacy pretty much stop there...

Once we start comparing her to the kinds of criticisms that McCain levels against Obama, it makes me wonder, "What could he possibly have been thinking?"

Experience? She was on the city council and then mayor of Wasilla, an Anchorage suburb of 8,000 people. She's governor of Alaska, the second least populated state in the union (only ahead of Wyoming), for slightly less than two years. She brings a total of three electoral college votes to the table. Talk about image over substance...

Agent of change? While Palin entered the governorship on a throw-the-good-old-boys-out-and-end-corruption-in-politics message, in fact she is embroiled in her own minor political scandal these days. (She forced the resignation of her Commissioner of Public Safety because he wouldn't fire a police officer who had been hassling her family). Not to mention, coming from Alaska she is associated by party affiliation with the only sitting U.S. Senator ever to be on trial for multiple felony counts of corruption. It's Alaska cronyism with a prettier face...

Hillary vote stealer? Given that Palin is anti-abortion (belonging to "Feminists for Life") and an ultra-conservative Christian who opposes gay unions, she'll pick up the votes of the reactionary Christian Right. But it's pretty hard for me to believe that Democratic women who were staunch Hillary supporters are now going to switch parties and support McCain simply because Palin is a woman...

Commander-in-Chief? After McCain dies in office, do you really want Sarah Palin picking up the red phone at 3 am?...

The NY Times says that the selection of Palin "amounted to a gamble." I agree. He rolled snake eyes.

Well, I guess this just clarifies the Presidential election. I'm more confident than ever of an Obama victory.

I say that not in the slightest to mock Hillary who is, in my eyes, a heroic figure. What I mock is McCain's shallow and transparent attempt to find a stand-in for one woman's amazing courage and determination and, yes, experience. Never mind that the GOP has a history of diminishing the aspirations of women and minorities while substituting true inclusion with tokenism -- this just smells of desperation.

It also seems insulting to voters to treat us like idiots; we're all supposed to be wowed by the cleverness of picking a woman who's not threatening, powerful or ready?

Sarah Palin may be an amazing person. She may be a fantastic governor of Alaska. I guess we'll find out in due course if that's true. But what she is NOT is ready to be president. McCain must have so much confidence in his tired meme that his experience (i.e. age) trumps Obama's, that he can fritter it away with an understudy who has zero national experience, foreign policy experience, or experience working on bread and butter economic issues.

(Possibly maybe moose and salmon issues, but I digress.)

What this shows, if anything, is how little depth the GOP bench has. Seriously. If you've got to borrow Joe Lieberman for your convention to provide a character reference, you ain't got a lot of friends. (By the way, please keep him.) And if you've got to go with someone no one out of the GOP inner circle has ever heard of -- because she's young and a woman -- but has no other qualifications for national office, you are seriously hurting.

And, by the way, I have been on record from the get go saying that the only credential that matters for a potential vice president is the ability and readiness to take office. This doesn't pass the smell test. It shows terrible judgment.

I wish Sarah Palin well. Just not at the elbow of a teetering McCain presidency.

No way. No how. No McCain.

PS And to all of the doubters who somehow came away from Obama's brilliant address last night with "where's the substance?" I ask you: you think this shows substance or a plan of action on the other side? What I heard last night was someone who has thought very carefully and wisely about the priorities this country needs to address and the roadmap to getting there. He LITERALLY brought people together last night in a way no one has before. What is McCain's strategic plan for our future? A shot in the dark? I guess McCain wants to run entirely on character.

PPS She just said "nuklar" in her debut address. Oh man.