Highly Recc'd Al!

out to send this out as a joke

The first polling confirms Palin's lack of experience is a real weakness.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/w omen-more-skeptical-of-palin-than-men.ht ml

By a 29/44 margin, voters do not believe that she is ready to be President...

Most interestingly...

by a 23-point margin, women do not think Palin is ready to be President, whereas Palin lost this question among men by a considerably smaller 6-point magrin.

Rec'd for the facts.  No misogyny in that!

Maybe Dems can start a secret e-mail campaign claiming she is actually a Canadian.

(just thinking out loud here...;)

LOL! For a second, I thought that my browser locked up, or my page refused to load...

She's completely and utterly ridiculous. They call Obama "Bambi" to suggest he's not prepared, but even Bambi would kick this ridiculous light weight's ass. It's ridiculous to think that that woman should be anywhere NEAR the highest office in the known universe. Profoundly and dangerously ridiculous.

WTF???

RIDICULOUS!!!

I don't know what you guys are talking about. Everyone said Obama does not have the experience to be President, yet here he is. Obama CANNOT win an experience battle. The mere fact that we are comparing a PRESIDENTIAL candidate experiences to  VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate is laughable. We are basically saying Obama does not have the experience to be President. If we fight the fight, we lose. Why? John McCain is running for President, not Sarah Palin. There is a reason Obama backed away from this attack.

44% still think Obama is too inexperienced to be President. This is not a fight we want to have.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/scoreboa rds/by_the_numbers2/by_the_numbers

To be honest, I'm actually impressed with Palin record. She took on corruption and won. I just find it appalling that we hold Palin to a different standard that Obama. We have to be careful how we thread. Disgruntled Clinton supporters were angry because Clinton was held to a different standard, now we are doing it again. I'm a 20-year-old male and I could see that.

You really shouldn't have padded her resume, Al.

Those things added to a resume to make one appear better qualified than they are usually wind up being 'found out' in the long run, so next time, just stick with her accurate attributes.  Your padded version is way too long and unbelievable.

I think the deliberate whitening of the page is a form of reverse racism.

Shame on you Al Rodgers!

Appointing party loyalists who have no experience to top government positions.

fucking hilarious.

dammit I was gonna do this.

Recced. ;)

You've GOT to be kidding me, RJ. Seriously.

His resume is as thin as hers? REALLY? How many bills has SHE authored? Has she passed anything on loose nukes? Or a database for tracking pork spending? Or a home state law for videotaping interrogations in the wake of torture allegations?

She was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it. There's judgement for you.

She said she was so busy as governor, she wasn't paying any attention to news about the Iraq war.

She asked what a VP does! I can honestly say that I've never heard Obama say he'd run for Senate after he finds out what a Senator does.

I can't believe you can seriously make the claim - even as "GOP devil's advocate" - that there's any comparison.

And here's one more: if something happened to the elected President, who would YOU want picking up the phone at 3 AM - Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?

http://www.cityofwasilla.com/ftp/tour/ci tyhall/Tourviewer_cityhall.html

It took me a while to check out this "dairy". When I finally did, I was thinking... hm... what is wrong with my computer or the connection?

I was stumped.

hmmm...

 Good one!  :)

Progressive Blue

I can't wait for the Saturday Night Live skits that have their Palin shown as a looker, with perfect hair and makeup, a beauty queen smile , tiara in place wearing camo fatigues with a beauty queen sash that reads 'Ms Gov of Alaska, 2008', holding an ak47 with an infant and a toddler strapped to her back, yelling for more ammo, on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney

Damn, I should be writing that script for money.

And; I have relatives that have worked with Ms. Palin...their reaction has been one of incredulous horror, to laughable outrage, at Mr. McLost's egregious "choice".

We shouldn't be attacking Palin on her lack of experience. That only makes us hypocrites, and Palin will gladly turn this around into her own martyrdom.

We should be attacking McCain for his lack of judgment, and for his hypocrisy for questioning Obama's experience.

We should be noting that even Republicans must be worried about his judgment.

Okay,

Here's a question?  Since McCain seems to have FP cred, and no economic acument, shouldn't his VP at least be able to help him shore up that weakness.

How does Palin help McCain with the economy?

McCain has basically blown up his chance to have someone on the ticket who can help him with his economic message.  In exchange for riling up the conservative base.

Denying she has a resume and stances allows the Republican's to claim her positions and history is better than it is.

They are trying to define her as a fighter of corruption when she has been campaigning for Ted Stevens.

She seems to be anti-science/education.

And anti-choice.

My grandmother who is a lifelong Republican is voting for Obama now because she hates Palin due to her stance on Polar Bears, and shooting wolves from planes.

Her stance on everything is so far scary Right 75% of the country isn't going to agree with it, why not give her the credit where she is due?

With McCain's recipe for global cold war, and economic disaster, and extreem right social pandering, we should be asking the question "Is this still your Republican party?"  I am expecting to see more moderate Republicans jump ship in the next couple weeks.  

Look, based on what she's said, she's a total ignoramus. No one can put Obama into the same league. As the governor of Arkansas Clinton had no reasons to have qualifications for foreign affairs -- except that he did. He was deeply involved with the international community, not lease Pamela Harriman, who sponsored a salon on that.

It's a mistake to underestimate Obama's qualifications on this. His European trip was more than a rock star trip. His speech in German and his brief stop in France acted to reassure two allies and at the same time to resolve a budding disagreement over the Mediterranean Union. He gave Sarkozy some underpinnings for its presidency of the EC, which it heads through January 1, but the priorities are set by France. It's a unique opportunity.

He also, in his speeches and privately, reinforced existing policy about a stronger Nato, but also asking them to live up to their promises.

You underestimate the advantage of his history of living in other countries. Where's her interest in international affairs?

Let's ask her a few simple questions?

How does she feel about Poland's membership in the Warsaw Alliance?

What was the Sudenten and what was the majority language

Turkmenistan is in the (what) basin?

What language do they speak in Iran?

What what pipeline is involved in the Georgia controversy. Where does it start and end?

Could you discuss the Kurdish issues in the middle east?

Which countries have borders with Turkey and briefly explain the foreign policies issues it has had with those neighbors.

Who in 1914 governed the present countries of Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Iran.

Who is the head of state in Britain.

Angela Merkel is from ?

Could you describe who Kemal Attaturk was, what he is most noted for? Would you also describe current affairs that are affected by anything he did.

Where is Bangladesk and what language do they speak?

What is the capital of Nepal?

Do you have any idea what is the largest state in India.

Could you give us the current name of Ceylon and discuss the name and nature of its insurgency?

Could you talk about the ethnic issues of the Hutu and Tutu?

What is the colonial history of the congos.

What is the large island east of Africa.

What was the 50 Destroyers deal? What did it mean to the US and could you talk about any continuing provision in effect today.

What was the German Empire's entrepot in China.  Name a connection now known in almost every city in the US.

Could you talk a little about the head of government in Venezuela -- and the nature of the oil. Compare with Light Crude.

Name the top 5 exporters of oil to the United States.

Name the primary exporter to the United States of Natural Gas.

What country outside of the Americans has the largest known Natural Gas supplies and what, if anything, is being done with it.

What does the Kenai plant do and where do its exports go.Why.

If drilling oil lowers prices, why are Alaskan prices so high that you felt you needed to give Alaskans. Doesn't having a  huge oil surplus have an effect of keeping prices down. If it doesn't Work in Alaska, why would it work anywhere else.

Should the states affected be able to have a major voice in offshore drilling.

Who's gotten rich from the Alaskan oil fields.

We've seen this woman's resume. She ain't got executive experience. An excess of that is not necessarily a good thing. Eisenhower was better than the average president (and general) because he had been required to achieve concensus in organizations that worked from the top down. Running the U.S. is not a job for CEO. Government, at its best, is not a top down override on everything, but it requires being involved on many levels.

If you have not had contact with the foreign policy issues, you will spend the next three years trying to figure out where the countries are. It is not a perky face and cheap populism that will ger this country though. And you can't ask for a country briefing that could take hours when the Russians are invading a country you've never heard about.

McCain didn't pick her for her governing experience, but for her 'judgement' and 'charm.'  She'll attract born-gain pug women.  They would have been lackluster for John without an evangelical with squeaky clean anti-abortion creds, the same pug women who voted for Bush.  Enough said?  

Awesome.

He's worse than Dole.
She's worse than Quayle.

Interestingly, the McCain campaign doesn't have Palin's resume either.

When Obama announced Biden, his site was ready with a full bio including a long list of Biden's accomplishments.

http://www.barackobama.com/learn/meet_jo e.php

Palin's bio page on McCain's website is....the text of her speech from yesterday. That's it.

http://www.johnmccain.com/about/governor palin.htm

Also worth noting is that she is a native of Idaho, the heart of "black helicopter country".

"Sarah Palin Facts" http://www.palinfacts.com/

  * Sarah Palin used to wrestle kodiak bears in Alaskan bare knuckles fight clubs.
   * Sarah Palin once bagged a caribou by staring it down until it died.
   * Sarah Palin turned down a job as skipper of a Deadliest Catch boat because it wasn't challenging enough
   * Sarah Palin fishes salmon by convincing them it's in their interest to jump into the boat.
   * Sarah Palin once guided Santa's sleigh through an Alaskan blizzard with the light from her smile.

  * Chuck Norris wishes he was Sarah Palin trapped in a man's body.
   * Sarah Palin paid her way through school by hunting for yeti pelts with a slingshot.
   * Sarah Palin knows the location of DB Cooper's body because she threw him from the plane.
   * The Northern Lights are really just the reflection from Sarah Palin's eys.
   * The raw energy of Sarah Palin melts the Alaskan ice roads every spring.
   * We don't know who would win in a Chuck Norris - Sarah Palin cage match because they've never invented a cage that can hold Sarah Palin.
   * Alaska is the 49th state solely because they knew even before she was born that Sarah Palin would never finish last.
   * Global Warming doesn't kill polar bears. Sarah Palin does - usually with her bare hands.
   * Three of Sarah Palin's five kids came out sideways - she never flinched.
   * Sarah Palin's hotness is the largest single contributor to melting polar ice caps.
   * It's not raining in DC. Those are God's tears of joy that McCain picked Sarah Palin.
   * Sarah Palin isn't allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they're afraid she'll use it to kill liberals.
   * Sarah Palin once one a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
   * Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
   * Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
   * Sarah Palin pick retroactively makes the theme of #DNC08 "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead"
   * Sarah Palin doesn't need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.

I really want to know what our military men and women feel about McCain picking this woman who is literally "a heartbeat away" from being Commander in Chief of the US armed forces.

How do you think career military men and women like Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel, Petreus, Clark, etc feel about McCain's pick?  How do think their female couterpoints in the military feel?

My guess: PISSED!

I'll bet Obama wouldn't know what to do if a caribou got in his trash cans.

against America's greatest danger...

Bears!

From Will and Grace.

from those who know her:

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/se arch?q=palin

Interesting stuff, couple snippets:

Top of page:

Her campaign consisted of challenging John's wife, the late Karen Marie, of having a different last name from Mr. Stein, and of dissing "government schools," a term Palin had picked up from the now imprisoned ex-Representative, Vic Kohring.

Her campaign accused Stein, a Republican, of not being Republican enough. The campaign, very fungelical, stressed that Karen Marie was a prominent Democrat, and pro-choice (they called her a "baby killer").

Palin promised, in her mayoral campaign, to eliminate the Wasilla sales tax and city police department Stein had struggled to get.

She didn't.

"Shannyn Moore's Take on Gov. Palin's Judgement "

In the last few weeks of her pregnancy she was flying all over the country, Washington D.C. and then to a conference of Republican Governors in Dallas. Her water broke at the conference and she decided to fly back to Alaska to have her 5th child that she knew had downs-syndrome. She passes up some of the finest children's hospitals in Dallas, Seattle and Anchorage, to fly hours and then drive to 50 miles to her home town to have her child. I admire her ability to hold a child in during all those hours and miles above the Earth, and her staunch loyalty to Alaska to deliver her baby on Native Soil. But had I been on board one of those planes on the way to take a loved one off life support, or be at a wedding, or job interview, or any other event that we get on planes for, and had to be diverted by a woman who knowingly got on board after her water broke, I may not admire her uterine control so much. Her lack of judgment for fellow passengers seems obvious, but for someone who is so pro-life it seems reckless.

This one has me puzzled - was that the rash and foolish action of a seriously concerned mother, or the pure political madness of someone who couldn't bring themselves to stay home at nine-months into her pregnancy for the safety of her baby?  Should she have been on the road in the first place, and having broken her water in Dallas was she only going home to have an Alaskan Baby? (fifth child as well, we had our third living an hour from the hospital and when Donna's water broke I calmly broke my toe and drove sedately to the hospital at 500mph...)

Much more to learn at this blog...

-chris

is a great shield, but not a sword.  

Only for the Obama campaign itself of course, us little folks on the tubes can snark all we likes.

hold a post-graduate degree?

It's supposed to be blank. You don't know how many times I hit refresh on my browser.

Here's my photoshop of her as Miss Congeniality:

http://dowdreport.blogspot.com/2008/08/m iss-congeniality.html

Here, I'll make it easier for you.

Take Obama and McCain out of the equation (that's the premise behind "ready to lead" in terms of the vice-presidency right). Obama or McCain are no longer able to perform their duties. Amadinajhad(?) is still working towards nuclear power, hell, worse case scenario, Russian decides to invade the rest of the former USSR states and begin an all out war in Eastern Europe. A call is made for some form of US assisstance, who do you think is better equipped to handle that call or putting it another way, for whom would you feel more comfortable answering that call? Joe Biden or Sarah Palin? No rationalizations, no explaining, just gut reaction!

reading these comments made me think for a minute I was at the free republic-- but no I am just at the new and improved mydd which has been assimiliated into the Oborg.

I do not look forward to the next few months I thought my party was better than this but then I guess it is not my party any more.

I'm just surprised we are attacking Palin's experience when it was Obama, and Bill Clinton at the convention who said experience DOES NOT MATTER. I understand people are saying we are attacking McCain/Palin's judgment, but that is not what this diary is about, it is about Palin's experience.

We all cited Lincoln as an example. Only 2 years in the House before he became President and he turned out fine. There is a reason Obama backed away from the experience card, because he knows he cannot win that hand.

We all said Kaine was an excellent choice for Obama despite less than two years as Governor. If we are going to attack someone lets not play double standards here. This diary is not about judgment, it is about experience and it is filled with hypocrisy. I know many of you don't see it that way.