McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as VP (a female)

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McCain turns 72 today so if he passes then Palin becomes President if McCain were to be elected. Palin, who is 44 years old, was a mayor of a small town of 9000 just a few years ago. Talk about no experience, Palin brings nothing new to the table except she is a woman, and that is why McCain choose her. I look forward to hearing her talk about foreign policy.

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Palin, 44, who’s in her first term as governor, is a pioneering figure in Alaska, the first woman and the youngest person to hold the state’s top political job.
She catapulted to the post with a strong reputation as a political outsider, forged during her stint in local politics. She was mayor and a council member of the small town of Wasilla and was chairman of the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which regulates Alaska’s oil and gas resources, in 2003 and 2004.

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The following was taken from a hard rightwing website and written by a right winger, he's dead on in his analysis regarding McCain's VP choice.

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*Entirely appropriate that the announcement will be made in “Nutter” Auditorium. This pick is nuts.

What is the chief concern voters have about McCain? His age and health and the possibility that if he were elected he could become incapacitated while in office. His age is now more an issue than ever. Is this woman capable of taking over for McCain if necessary? Of course not. And voters will now hesitate and decide McCain made a political decision and did not put his country and its security first. This is not a minor concern when you look at the world situation and the resurgence of Russia and the dangers from Iran. Older voters and those who are not red meat conservatives will not see the logic in this at all.

Another problem with this pick—it takes the Obama age issue off the table as a Republican campaign attack issue. How can Republicans attack Obama as unqualified and a poor choice if they have put in the number two spot someone who is even younger and has almost neglible (sic) experience, certainly none in international affairs? That major issue with Obama has been neutralized. Apparently, Republicans don’t care that a number two isn’t qualified for the job. Why should voters be concerned about Obama? This also looks like McCain is pandering to women voters. Since when are Republicans pushing affirmative action as the basis for a VP pick?

She has a scandal in her background as well. She used her clout to have her brother-in-law fired as a state trooper after her sister was involved with him in a messy divorce.

McCain has shown poor judgment here. This will be the mantra from Democrats and the MSM. Count on it.
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there it is... this is the day mccain won the race.

unless mccain screws up in the debates or something, i dont see obama winning the pumas back.

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I would say this is the day McCain lost the race.

A. The Pumas are just Republicans from operation chaos posing as Dems.

B. This is going to fire up true Hillary supporters to elect Obama/Biden. Palin just thanked Hillary in a speech for making 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling and said now she is going to break the rest of it down. This kind of statement is going to piss off Hillarys supporters to no end.

McCains lack of judegement to select someone like Palin shows why he can't be trusted to led the country. He would have been much better off picking Rice as his VP than Palin, if he wanted to choose a woman.

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you really think "operation chaos" is that good? all the pollsters say upto 20 and atleast 10 percent of democrats are not behind hillary, I daresay that isnt self identified voters but their own models of likely voters and whatnot based on who voted in the previous elections. How can operation chaos do that?

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Forget the rest of the American voters. I'll give my personal perspective here.

[And advance apologies to utd and other serious political commentators. My comments are mostly irreverent since I don't actually vote]

Today with the choice of Sarah Palin, I am finally at ease with the US election prospects. No matter who wins, I am happy.

Before today, with Obama and McCain stastically tied in polls, I was worried why Obama isn't leading by double digits. McCain was giving me shivers. He is such a boring old dude. Come on.

Obama is a great speaker. He brings hope to the people. But he also brings inexperience in foreign policy and, yes, this is important, higher taxes for people like me. Plus he supports gay rights (tauba tauba) and all kinds of other socially liberal positions that I just can't personally reconcile with. So what if he claims he will pull out of Iraq in 16 months. We all know thats not gonna happen anyway, so no point in having an orgasm about it.

Compare that to McCain. He is literally in his grave. Uninspiring speaker. Has no consistent position on pretty much anything. Opposes the laws he himself wrote a few years ago. Political opportunist of the nth degree. How can anyone get excited about this 72 year old nut job is beyond me. His only redeeming grace is that he is not a liberal. Well, he is not a conservative either. He is just John McCain. A bored-out-of-my-mind-old-white-politician.

Enters Sarah Palin. A bonafide hottie. Sorry to be crass here, but lets be honest. In presidential politics she is as young as you can realistically imagine. 44. She looks fabulous. She will bring that same breath of fresh air to Presidential politics in the US as Sherry Rahman brings to boring old political scene in Pakistan. Well dressed. Classy. Easy on the eye.

And if McCain becomes President and then drops dead, not an unlikely scenario mind you, Sarah will take over as Leader of the Free World. All our dreams since Commander-in-Chief got cancelled at CBS will come true. Sarah Palin is actually better looking than Geena Davis. In my opinion, Sarah Palin takes away all my deepest worries about McCain at the most superficial level.

So where does that leave Obama. Yes, he can win. If he does, we get a great speaker in the White House. Hopefully he will be a good President too. I'll just have to change channels when Michele Obama comes on the screen. She scares me. His kids are really cute, though. By the way, Cindy McCain is also pretty good looking, in an old, elitist, quiet way. And especially considering her age. Not that looks should be a factor here, but we all know, first ladies just need to look pretty for state dinners.

So thank you John McCain. Thank you for picking Sarah. Now whoever wins I will be partying on November 5th. If I could vote, I'd vote for Sarah Palin ... and may be John McCain too.

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What I got out of that Faisal is that what Palin brings to the table are her looks. what upsets you about Obama is that he will raise taxes on the rich and feels that gays should have the same equal rights as Muslims and everyone else in American and you oppose that.

McCain = Bush, he has voted with Bush over 90% of the time. This election it quite simple, for those who support Bush then yes, you should vote for McCain. Obama, as it has been said over and over, is change for the better.

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If Dems win an inexperienced Obama becomes president. If Republicans win, an inexperienced person becomes president only if McCain becomes unable to conduct his office for whatever reason.

I was leaning McCain before and this hasn't changed it any. McCain and Obama can pick anybody and there will be some pros and cons in each case.

BTW Sarah Palin is the only one amongst the 4 on the ticket that has actually been leader of any government; Mayor, Governor etc, though not for very long.

Go McCain. But I wouldn't be very cross if Obama wins either.

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Hey UTD... I warned you. Don't take my views seriously here. Well, on a second thought, please do. Looks are important. Unless one is blind, of course.

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No matter who McCain picks, his policies are just reflection of a third Bush term. Oh and Ms. Palin is no where close to Hillary Clinton's caliber.

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palin has just captured hillarys disaffected demographic and more.

i saw a bit of a surrogatefight on msnbc today, and the obama guy was saying the pick doesnt have the 'gravitas' to be commander in chief when McCain hits the bucket. Struck me as coming quite close to describing her as a bimbo.. and im sure any political operative worth his salt will spin it that way. so now obama campaign will once again face charges of sexism.

not good at all for obama.

YOUR SCIENCE QUIZ!!!
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:yawn:

I am glad she is not a pant suit dudet! :k:

Obama aaway hi aaway!

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the only thing i disagree with you is that she is attractive.
I mean, 20 years ago sure,
now
i dont think so

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if the disaffected demographic is the one that are just focused on wymen power and not concerned with the policies hillary was for, because Obama is much closer to Hillary's policies than mcCain and whatsher face. personally I think if she becomes a Veep, quyale would be very happy, because I think she will surpass him in faux pas.

but then i dont expect everyone to vote rationally anyways.

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It is really a mind boggling pick. All the major attacks the GOP have ran against Obama have been based on what they called his lack of experience, they can no longer run those, their #1 attack point is gone.

McCain had only met Palin once before choosing her as VP, it seems he watched Obama's speech Thursday night, panicked, and went with an oddball pick. Part of me still thinks she could back out of the nomination to 'spend more time with her family'.

It's clear she is not qualified, but one woman on T.V. did state she would support her because she is a mother...I guess that voter thinks that qualifies her, and 100 million other mothers, to be the VP of the U.S.?

The VP's most important duty is to assume the presidency in a crisis, and McCain is 72 years old logic would dictate that McCain would have picked someone respected for their expereince.

I don't know, I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop, this is just such a bizarre choice.

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Her credentials vs. Biden…um…Yeah!

Maybe the heartbroken hillary fan ads are getting to McCain’s head, so he decided to woo hillary-crowd of ladies by selecting a lady for VP. :dannyboy:

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it is identity politics for sure Rebel-X/utd and i think it will work. if though it doesnt work then i agree mccain is stuck with a huge albatross around his neck but i doubt it.

hillary holdouts needed a reason to switch and shut off that niggling doubt, and this is all they need. add to that whatever dems do to attack her which is already ofcourse being construed as sexist, taking a page from the hillary playbook.

i think it is a very smart move, and the obama people have been found flatfooted.

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How can anyone accuse Palin of lack of experience while at the same time supporting Obama with even less experience than her?

Palin actually ran something - Obama never ran anything.
Palin has proven gutsy integrity - Obama has been mired in questionable affiliations
Palin is running for VP, which may become P - Obama is running for P immediately

So all in all, I feel Palin is better qualified to be VP than Obama is for P.

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What an insult to women, as if they are shallow enough to vote for someone just because she is a woman. Hillary and Obama's stance on issues are almost indistinguishable, on most issues, and this beauty queen is further to the right than McCain. Hillary is going to be pissed, and so will be her supporters. . She didn't crack the ceiling to have this right winger with NO EXPERIENCE get to the top.

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What glass ceiling? Palin is not the first woman to run for VP. Didn't Geraldine Ferasomething (not sure of spelling) run for VP a while ago?