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- algaeturd, on 08/30/2008, -11/+104I don't care what side you're on; left or right. If this is true (and there's no reason to think that it isn't) it's ridiculous for ANY candidate to choose a VEEP that they've not been in the trenches with and have a functional, working relationship with. The pres/vice pres is a RELATIONSHIP. In what other arena would you jump into a relationship that is going to be committed for at least 4 years?
I don't care what political leaning you have; this is ridiculous and UNACCEPTABLE as a person who could potentially end up being the president of the United States of America.
Completely ludicrous. As an American, I'm offended that more thought and research wasn't put into his selection process; rather she was chose for being a 'conservative' woman. - lsumed, on 08/29/2008, -20/+92Wow. The McCain camp must've have been desperate.
- JoeMondo, on 08/30/2008, -7/+61And this is the same McCain who says Obama is not experienced enough, but picks someone with far less experience to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
- RevMum, on 08/30/2008, -8/+52How ironic, to see McCain under his "Country First" sign.
In these dangerous times and terrible economic conditions - knowing he’s 72 and has had multiple cancers - he gives us someone for a potential leader of the free world whose value is exclusively political, valuable only for the purpose of getting him elected President.
What would happen to America and the world, if he were incapacitated, and this governor of 18 months and mayor of a hamlet of 6000 were dealing with Putin, the Taliban, the Chinese – not to mention the horrific economic wreckage we must urgently deal with?
How could he sell out the best interests of our country to get himself into the Oval Office? He was a hero.
Country first? I'm sure it was. It clearly is not, any more.
How very sad - dBass, on 08/30/2008, -11/+47Let's face it, McCain didn't "pick" Palin. His handlers (puppet masters) picked Palin. McCain is just along for the ride. He ran for POTUS so many times his way like Sinatra but with nothing to show for it, he finally decided to sell his soul to the GOP. McAngel Heart.
- HamSandwich, on 08/30/2008, -3/+35McCain's thought process: "18 million people voted for Hillary, I can get those votes if I put a girl on the ticket".
Sad, but true. - suprememilo, on 08/30/2008, -8/+27He is being very irresponsible and putting the country at risk for this political move.
If you say Obama doesn't have executive experience, what do you call his amazingly successful campaign. - lsumed, on 08/29/2008, -6/+25You and McCain evidently have similar vetting procedures.
- acroyear2, on 08/30/2008, -9/+25"LibertyForever" for President!
I just saw this guy at Applebee's. We had a drink. I'm making him secretary of education!
Sorry, I rear-ended you sir. Here's my phone number and your new office as Defense Secretary.
Oh my god, Oh my god. That chick is so going to be my Secretary of the Interior... in bed. - sidewinderaim9x, on 08/30/2008, -12/+27Don't blame McCain. He just likes women much younger than him.
- lsumed, on 08/30/2008, -7/+22And 1 1/2 years as governor. Where did you get the extra year from?
- Typhoon2009, on 08/30/2008, -2/+16Why can't you just say "VP"?
- cheeseron, on 08/30/2008, -1/+14in the end, mccain supporters will continue to support the mccain ticket and obama supporters will continue to support the obama ticket and ron paul supporters will wish he had run as a third party and mike gravel will get a well-deserved nap
- dood, on 08/30/2008, -3/+16What does a Vice President even do? If you find out, please let Sarah Palin know.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/sarah-palin-not ... - JoeMondo, on 08/30/2008, -8/+19I'm not playing the experience card - McCain already did. I'm observing that McCain has played it, but selected a running mate with LESS experience.
And I don't count being mayor of some Asslick town in Alaska as significant experience.
:-) - Schmapdi, on 08/30/2008, -6/+17Mayor of Mayberry doesn't count. Even Governor of Alaska itself is pretty thin, I mean - the State only has like 600,000 people in it. That's a lot smaller than Chicago, where Obama cut his teeth and sharpened his skills.
- JoeMondo, on 08/30/2008, -3/+13Cutting spending? Are you not counting his hundred year war?
How anyone who sides with Bush can be considered fiscally responsible is quite a mystery. - acroyear2, on 08/30/2008, -6/+15I don't understand the common Obama's supporters arguments against these "experience" barbs. I support Obama and it's his experience OUTSIDE Washington that always attracted me. The less politico, the better.
- chubbybubba, on 08/30/2008, -4/+13She's hot.
- gabsterella, on 08/30/2008, -8/+17Life expectancy in US is 77.5... just by going to the stats McCain has 5.5 more years. But... he's a cancer magnet and has gone through war camps, which aren't exactly good for you. Well, I guess he'd better have a solid VP, right?
Oh, wait,
HE PICKED HIS VP BASED ON ONE MEETING!!! - HamSandwich, on 08/30/2008, -3/+11Seriously? Fiscal responsibility? That's the biggest reason I'm a democrat. My entire life, I've heard that the republicans are the "fiscally responsible" party. The reality, during my 33 years on this planet, is that every time a republican gets into office, the deficit spirals out of control.... and a democrat means budget surplus. Liars.
- palehorse864, on 08/30/2008, -1/+9I have to look at Palin more, but I would say that if a presidential candidate had to choose their VP, I would rather they look at previous actions of that VP candidate rather than how much they've buddied with them in the past. If they have a friend they work well with, but that wouldn't help with good policies, and another VP candidate they haven't met in person, but who has a good track record, I would rather they pick the one with the good track record.
Of course, in the past, VP candidates have been chosen for a number of reasons. Teddy Roosevelt was chosen as a VP because he got on certain people' s nerves.Some people in his party didn't like what he was doing in his current office, so to get rid of him, they decided to put him in a position of zero power, the vice presidency. They didn't expect though that the president would die and TR would take his place. :) - jhnsnp, on 08/30/2008, -4/+11I'm all for Obama so thank you McCain for getting him elected. There were many other qualified choices for VP in the Republican Party, hundreds with more experience to do this and he picks a young woman from an oil producing state with a year and a half of experience as governor.
Pandering is all this is, pandering for votes. - Jerk, on 08/30/2008, -6/+13It's funny to me that Palin is referenced on The Huffington Post's front page more than twice as much as Obama (44 vs. 20 for those that are curious.)
- palehorse864, on 08/30/2008, -0/+6That's probably because they typically don't do a whole heck of a lot, unless the presdient asks them to. Then it is more or less up to the president to determine what they will do in that capacity.
"My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." ~ John Adams (referring to the vice presidency). - JoeMondo, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7Correction: It wasn't based on one meeting. It was based on McCain's willingness to stoop to a cynical stunt.
- superkendall, on 08/30/2008, -3/+9The poll numbers are still close to even. If you think it's hopeless for McCain to win, by all means do nothing for Obama.
As a fiscal conservative I will try and support someone I think to be the best possible candidate - or at least better than any I hoped for. - nemo001, on 08/30/2008, -2/+8They are worried.
- tsevis, on 08/29/2008, -6/+12Exactly!
- superkendall, on 08/30/2008, -1/+7It's not spam. Note that I tailor each post for the story in question. I'm not looking to sell you anything, just point out to others that time spent here on Digg trying to convince closed minded people of anything is time wasted - why not help someone you support instead. Honestly you Obama supporters would be better off doing the same for Obama, and you'd not call that spam.
- SkullAndXBones, on 08/30/2008, -4/+10There would have been an article on Digg anyway about how McCain picked one of his Cronies if they were friends, so what's the point?
- JoeMondo, on 08/30/2008, -2/+8Then there's the 3rd option: Make a responsible choice.
Besides, no one said Cheney was a crony. The cronies were Brownie andHarriet Miers.
Get your Bush *****-ups straight. - grneye53, on 08/30/2008, -4/+10McCain looking for a 3rd wife !
- doublsh0t, on 08/30/2008, -10/+15She's barely qualified to be head of the PTA--let alone a Vice President
- Barackalypse, on 08/30/2008, -4/+9The expression "love at first sight" comes to mind. You're just sore McCain shook things up and picked a conservative woman as a VP and all you guys got was establishment insider like Biden.
- kingofinternet, on 08/30/2008, -6/+11she is the finest, most intelligent, most experienced former runner up beauty queen to ever run for the second highest office in america
- GawtMilk, on 08/30/2008, -5/+10And he was right on the money.
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/show ... - spinchange, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5You guys should look into how meetings Franklin Roosevelt had with Harry Truman before picking him. I'll give you the answer - one. It was a formality at that, because he had already been selected.
- gcnaddict, on 08/30/2008, -1/+5Buried because Barack isn't muslim, so putting emphasis on his middle name exposes you as a cowardly douchebag who should never have been born. Taking such cheap swiped at people is absolutely rude and ridiculous.
I don't care about your political affiliation, but if you're going to go fearmongering in order to subliminally enforce a mindset which is utterly false (he's not muslim, NOR SHOULD IT MATTER), then you deserve the crap government in place right now.
Go move to Saudi Arabia and stop trying to screw up our last hope. Maybe there you'll learn what it means to be American.
Edit: Soros is a philanthropist billionaire. Way to not do your research. - inactive, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4malware attack site
- yoda133113, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4Just saying, you might want to fact check your "Least Populous State" quote, Alaska is the 4th least.
- EllimistX, on 08/30/2008, -2/+6@GawtMilk:
That is so sad to see, especially that signature about knowing McCain that one of the posters had...
I can't believe some people can be that stupid... - darkjedi26, on 08/30/2008, -0/+4As opposed to a few years as a senator?
- gaberowe, on 08/30/2008, -2/+6I hafta say... if she becomes president if McCain died (which is a significant possibility)... uh... I might be a bit worried about her level of experience... being governor of one of the least populous states for 1.5 years, and previous experience before that is minimal... yeaaa..... serious pandering that I think most women will see right through... she is a totally ridiculous choice...
- gabsterella, on 08/30/2008, -3/+7quite correct there :) he's pretty desparate
- bobvilla03, on 08/30/2008, -2/+6several times they were senator's together
- enantiodromia, on 08/30/2008, -3/+7he must have drooled into the keyboard as he was writing his little ditty
- DiggRational, on 08/30/2008, -2/+6It's funny - on the Fox News clip - how McCain's CAMPAIGN SPOKESPERSON says she's ignorant of their relationship. Then when pressed, she repeats that she's ignorant. I'm sorry - but the fact that you don't know the extent of relationship between a potential President and his Vice-President is not something to brag about!
She's you who McCain is surrounding himself with. Bad choices all the way. - Phocion55, on 08/30/2008, -3/+6Digg is hands down the most fair and balanced place to get election coverage on the Internet.
- selfdisplaced, on 08/30/2008, -4/+7funny, same thing could be said about Obama
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