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Originally Posted by Mobilus
In her acceptance speech she managed to mention the hurricaine and deride believers of climate change in the same sentence, hilarious. What an idiot.
She also said more than once, basically 'vote for McCain or else Al Qaida will come kill you in your sleep.' Wonderful fear mongering from the "hockey mom."
She did nothing to impress us or show she has any knowledge of the world outside of Alaska, especially since she bad-mouthed the former owners of Alaska (Russia) and she actually implied that Georgia has a free and democratic government (what are the republicans smoking?)
She has proven she is not ready even to be a PTA mom, let alone the VP to someone on death's door. My god, if we were actually stuck with her we'd be screwed.
How can they pick someone so inexperienced and yet attack Obama for a "lack of experience?"
When she attempted to make being the mayor of 9,000 people sound tougher than a community organizer in URBAN CHICAGO I almost died from a laughing fit. Is she ****ing serious?
Also she made a quite a show of describing the torture John McCain went through and then made a snide joke about the fact that Obama objects to how we're treating prisoners in Gunatanamo Bay and other places. I guess she didn't see the news that the Military Commissions Act, John McCain's signature legislation, got ruled unconstitutional.
Hypocrisy, lies and idiocy in every sentence she spoke.
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Politics are hilarious, and you can nitpick all you want, but the fact is she made alot of people happy with her speech.
How does she show has no knowledge outside of Alaska? She was even clever enough to throw out some puns, and actually spoke like a normal human being, rather than another washington rat. Of course she badmouthed Russia, tensions between the US and Russia are arguably as high as they were in the mid 80s before the Soviet Unions collapse. Russia is but a puppet of Putin, its senate and "new leader" (Medvedev(sp?)) are all at his knees. They mock us by calling themselves a democracy when they've been going backwards to communism for years.
As for Georgia, it actually is a Democracy, though Sakasvili(sp?) took the position more or less in fear, he actually was elected. But that said, Georgia is still a US ally that has cooperated with NATO in years past, and is on its way to full fledged membership (Dicky was there this week reguarding NATO), which is the reason there is much US support to Georgia, and not just in the Repub party.
As for her experience, no, she doesn't have alot of it. I think McCain, despite being very experienced himself, eliminated a big argument he had on Obama by choosing her. She did however actually MAKE decisions as a Mayor and a Govenor.
Joe Biden is an ******* senator on the MPAA's payroll. I think he, by far was a worse choice for Obama than Palin was for McCain. Obama had ALOT of the youth vote according to some early polls (don't remember from where), and now knowing that Joe Biden is another ******* who doesnt understand computers that will be deterred. However Joe Biden brought something to the table, experience., which is why he was chosen. Sara Palin too, was a valid choice. McCain is a moderate/mild republican. Sara Palin is a hardcore conservative. To appeal to the more conservative members of the party they needed to choose someone with her ideology. On top of that, being a woman she apeals to the many Hillary fan women who want to see a woman in office.
EDIT: Lest we forget oil in Alaska.