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- TheJimid, on 08/31/2008, -16/+171She was losing Miss Alaska while Edwards was in law school.
- Carv, on 08/31/2008, -10/+81The GOP was against inexperienced VPs before they were for them.
- karmafarm, on 08/31/2008, -13/+83Not really a surprise- Rove et al are quite capable of telling the American people that black is white. Then if you try to point out their mistake, they'll call you racist...
- dannyboy3020, on 08/31/2008, -33/+86Digg doesn't like Palin. We get it. Who's mind are you trying to change?
- dinot, on 08/31/2008, -8/+52And it's a pity Americans still fall for it.
- garryw, on 08/31/2008, -2/+39And what makes you think Edwards could have won Miss Alaska? Sure his hair budget is bigger, but you got to have a talent.
- TunaFishGangsta, on 08/31/2008, -7/+40" And Republicans wonder why Americans continue to laugh at them..."
Did you forget that American's elected George W. Bush twice? I think that, if anything, the republicans are ones laughing. - sugarazor, on 08/31/2008, -7/+35It's impossible to try to argue with a Republican since as soon as you come up with an answer, they simply change the question. Logic and reasoning have no place in a discussion with them because they can make the discussion about anything they want and they think if they repeat something enough, it'll come true. Examples:
The attorney scandal - "Every other president relieves the previous attorneys." - yes, at the beginning of their term, Bush released them mid-term for political reasons.
"Dick Cheney isn't a part of the Executive Branch."
"You're doin' a heckuva job, Brownie!"
"Mission Accomplished"
"The surge is working!"
"Offshore drilling will lower gas prices!"
"Those silly Democrats think inflating your tires will improve gas mileage!"
"Global Warming needs more study"
"The Jury is out on Evolution"
"History will look back kindly on George W. Bush"
"They hate us for our freedom!"
"Sarah Palin has more experience than Barack Obama!"
They're a complete joke of a party and have driven this country further into the ground for the last 30 years and they get worse with every administration. They can't govern, all they can do is trash their opponents and run a permanent campaign. - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -11/+37Why did McCain cheat on his crippled first wife? Why did Clinton cheat on his? Honestly, could you have possible asked a less relevant question?
- weswood, on 09/01/2008, -0/+23This "Democratic Congress" is 49% Republican.
- rotundo, on 09/01/2008, -0/+21The thing that is unfortunate is that liberals (that includes me) just don't get it. We don't understand why Palin is going to appeal to a huge voting segment. We can laugh all we want at the Republicans and they'll continue to win elections by appealing to the millions that we don't understand. They certainly get the last laugh.
The disconnect is amazing. The people laughing at Palin probably have no friends or family that she'll connect with. I do, and I can assure you that while a risky choice that might backfire, Palin is in some ways a genius move. You just have to accept that she is going to appeal to people who make no sense to you, and that there are a lot of them.
I wish Obama luck in November. - jmisavage, on 08/31/2008, -5/+26Dude get your facts right first. Obama was a US Senator in Jan 2005 and Palin became governor in Dec of 2006.
- V0lk, on 08/31/2008, -18/+34www.ontheissues.org go there, and look at Palin's "record"...and then hold your stomach in laughter every time GOP brings up 'experience' in any context of either VP or President.
- sugarazor, on 08/31/2008, -5/+22What was the Republican Congress' approval rating?
Oh I'm sorry, we don't have that statistic because it's not a good talking point for the right-wing media. - jmisavage, on 09/01/2008, -2/+19Obama still had time to cast 348 votes in this session of congress. Which is more than McCain's 231 votes.
- LarryLacuna, on 08/31/2008, -12/+28When I heard about Palin getting the VP spot I thought for sure the inexperienced thing would be played down as much as possible. I feel stupid that I'm surprised Republicans are actually arguing Palin is MORE experienced then Obama - I should have seen it coming.
Stupidity has no limit pertaining to what people will not just believe but put their entire existence behind. - geoffg, on 08/31/2008, -10/+27I heard Palin eats babies and drives a Hummer!
- xexx, on 08/31/2008, -3/+18lol, no she doesn't you fool
Obama was an Illinois State Senator for 8 years 1996-2004. Chairman, Health and Human Services Committee.
Obama was a Constitutional Law Professor at the U of Chicago Law School 1993-2004
Obama was a Civil Rights Attorney - 1992-2004
Obama is a United States Senator 2004-present
Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs
Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Member, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Member, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Obama Education:
Columbia University
B.A. Political Science with specialization in international relations
Thesis topic: Soviet nuclear disarmament
Graduate
Harvard Law School
J.D. Magna cum laude 1988-1991
President, Harvard Law Review - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+15Cause his little head does all the thinking
- rearlgrant, on 08/31/2008, -7/+19Republicans: Put ideologues/idiots in government to prove to people you can't trust government.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+12How is this relevant to a story about upcoming vice presidential candidates?
- someguy92, on 08/31/2008, -2/+14Why would anybody be laughing?
Can anybody explain anything that the bush administration has done right in the last 8 years? This isn't funny, it's just sad. - Boomkin, on 09/01/2008, -0/+12Whoa, that's quite a selective list of half-truths.
This one's awesome ("Most Courageous Moment in Public Service"):
"Gave an anti-Iraq war speech to a crowd of anti-Iraq war demonstrators in Hyde Park in 2002"
Never-mind that this was the McCarthyesque era right after 9/11 when criticizing the Government at all was nearly political suicide. - xclapcorex, on 09/01/2008, -4/+16Palin Was Elected into Office in December 4th 2006, Obama was Elected into office in January 4th 2005. I don't know how you count time, That means Obama was in the Senate for almost 2 years before Palin was Governor.
By Picking Palin McCain is Stating that If He weren't Running for president he would want Her to be running. This shows his judgement. He feels that a 2 year Governor with a communications Degree from Idaho State is more qualified to be president than any other republicans with law degrees from Ivy league schools, experience in national government, or traveled abroad more than twice.
It also shows McCain's lack in faith in the electorate, especially women, and their ability to understand candidates. He believes that embittered Hillary supports will vote for him solely because he had the "courage" to pick a woman for the VP spot. It's one thing to pick a woman, it's another to pick one that is qualified.
Based on her resume (albeit short) she is one of the most unqualified republicans for the job period. Republicans should be frustrated with this poor pick. The only really concrete reason why someone would logically (and i say that loosely) decide to Vote for McCain because he picked her is because she has a vagina.
That's right, the only reason why people will vote for her is because she has a vagina. - xexx, on 08/31/2008, -4/+16You do realize Obama has been in the state senate/senate for 12 years, right?
- secrity, on 08/31/2008, -3/+13It looks like she lied about having a baby. I wouldn't be surprised if she drove a Hummer.
- colincornaby, on 08/31/2008, -3/+13"How in the world can you attack Palin when Obama was an actual Senator for a lesser amount of time than she was Governor? "
I don't know who told you that but it's false. Palin has only been a governor for a year. She was elected about the same time Obama announced his run for Presidency. - LemonChicken, on 08/31/2008, -4/+14It goes both ways. Democrats and Republicans both lie to support their motives. This isn't really news.
- jsdratm, on 08/31/2008, -6/+16All the people who think she has more experience or is a better candidate than Obama are lying to themselves. Oh she has less than two years as governor, but its "executive experience" and somehow that is more valuable... right... Obama was born poor and busted his ass to get top grades at Harvard and become a state senator and federal senator for 12 years.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -6/+16John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Chester A. Arthur
James Buchanan
Grover Cleveland
William Jefferson Clinton
Calvin Coolidge
Millard Filmore
Gerald R. Ford
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
James Monroe
Richard M. Nixon
Franklin Pierce
James K. Polk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
John Tyler
Martin Van Buren
Woodrow Wilson
All lawyers. Your idiotic level of political discourse is ***** embarrassing. - sonofalink, on 09/01/2008, -2/+11Governor of Alaska is > than being a US Senator? What do you govern in alaska, trees and bears? There isn't even 1 million people in Alaska.
So you're saying if John McCain were to croak (the dude IS 72) you think a woman who was the governor of the state with the 3rd smallest population in the US can run the country? Really? - deadbaby, on 08/31/2008, -1/+10It's sad the American people fall for this stuff so easily. We can blame the parties & candidates all we want but the truth is they wouldn't be doing it if people didn't fall for the same stupid rhetoric over and over again.
- chase001, on 09/01/2008, -1/+9McCain/Depends '08
- omegared, on 08/31/2008, -8/+16she has foreign policy experience, Alaska is near Russia.......
- onestrawplz, on 09/01/2008, -1/+9occidental =/= community college
- sugarazor, on 09/01/2008, -1/+9If the mission was accomplished, why are we still there?
"The surge is working" is a prime example of Republicans changing the question. The question is "Why did we go to Iraq?" Republican response: "THE SURGE IS WORKING!"
Eventually... ten years from now, when we should be investing in alternative fuels or using our own reserves that could power this country for sixty years.
I listen to Al Gore too much? Then explain to me why the polar ice caps are melting at such an alarming rate? Why are parts of the arctic that have never melted before, are completely gone right now?
They don't "hate us for our freedom," they hate us because we have stationed military bases all over the globe and tend to trample the world, much like we did in Iraq. "Hate our freedom" is the most childish, asinine ***** since McCain said he was going to "defeat evil."
And not a Democrat, never watched An Inconvenient Truth, don't watch Dan Rather and generally can't stand Michael Moore. But thanks for playing anyway, junior. - Mattwdj, on 09/01/2008, -1/+8Again George W had 6 years of executive experience and look how that turned out.
While there is ALOT more to a candidate then experience. Palins total lack of it is undeniable and an insult to the office of the presidency. Furthermore don't claim she has 12 years of executive experience 10 of that was with a town of 6K people. That's total bull if you claim that prepares you to be president. - Gerticus, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7Completely unbiased, I'm sure.
- goducksgo, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7didn't obama's father leave him when he was little and live in kenya?
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+9Very true, the experience argument has become Obama-v-Palin. That can't be good for Obama.
- Boomkin, on 09/01/2008, -0/+7The truth, from Redstate.com?
Thanks for a laugh. - dinot, on 09/01/2008, -1/+8Duh.. we're doing it to point out the hipocracy. MCCAIN started it by attacking Obama's experience. Now he picks someone with LESS experience???
That's like me calling you a fag for kissing a guy on the lips while I go home to have butt sex with Elton John. - JohnnyMarr, on 08/31/2008, -3/+10Are we seriously still talking about the "experienced" issue? See, this is what gets the American public sidetracked, and is also the reason why we don't think before we elect our political leaders.
Let me remind you all that there is no single position in the United States government that warrants the domestic leadership experience as well as the foreign leadership experience that the Office of the Presidency does. Therefore, no matter what Senators Obama, Biden, McCain, or Governor Palin say or do, none of them have the "experience" it takes to be an effective President. Again, you cannot prepare to be President of the United States. It isn't about personality, and it certainly isn't about "experience".
What you should be doing is taking a hard look at the issues which affect us the most. Take a look at what the candidates have planned (and yes, you should do your homework on the Independent candidates as well). Then, do something most Americans don't do and place an educated vote.
Sorry to rant, but I'd rather we not ***** things up again if we can prevent it. - NoUse, on 08/31/2008, -7/+14I'll just quote Andrew Sullivan rather than debate you:
I’ve voted a straight Republican ticket every year of my life since 1975, when I first came of voting age, but I was stunned and horrified by McCain’s choice of Palin. I simply cannot even consider voting for McCain after this choice, which speaks loudly of his own selfishness and fundamental frivolousness.
So I was shocked when I turned to the conservative blogs looking for others who shared my dismay and found a celebration going on. They really honestly believe that Palin’s "inexperience" and Obama’s "inexperience" are equivalent. I have had no luck at all in the past 24 hours trying to explain that Obama is quite obviously an impressive man (with whom I disagree on almost every major issue) with extraordinary qualities of organization, discipline and leadership. I see nothing in Palin’s record to suggest that she has any such qualities.
He is a man who has spent his adult life thinking serious thoughts about serious issues and having serious conversations about them with other serious, well-informed people; while Palin quite as clearly has done none of those things. He was the president of the Harvard Law Review; she was the point guard on her high school basketball team. - xexx, on 08/31/2008, -0/+7Obvious misspeak was obvious, he had been to 47 states.
- Haecceity, on 08/31/2008, -5/+12Obama: 12 years in elected office at state and national level.
Palin: mayor of a town of just over 5,000 people, then 18 months as governor of a state with fewer than a million people. Oh, I forgot she was also a beauty queen. Guess that counts for something. - geoffg, on 08/31/2008, -4/+11"Maybe liberals are laughing, but Americans that can't think for themselves will eat this ***** up."
You really believe deep down that you're that much smarter then everyone else...how unbelievably sad. - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+8Barack Obama hasn't spent the last 6 months of his campaign ***** on the opposition for being inexperienced.
- bigstupid, on 08/31/2008, -4/+10The blatant dislike of one party is foolish... dislike both. It makes more sense and we could potentially solve more problems by stopping this 'red pill blue pill' bs.
- obeythefist, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6It's not that anybody here has anything against her. It's the newsworthiness of a presidential campaign making such a choice. Add that to the fact that there is so little known about her by the general public that every little tidbit is big news. And the tidbits, as they have been appearing, are overwhelmingly not in her favor.
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