CNN prods McCain’s major blunder
2 September 2008
by
lolife
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Politics
(That is an embed from CNN, we’ll see if it works.)
It’s funny (but painful) to see CNN actually ask and demand answers to hard questions. The McCain campaign has no answer as to why they have a different standard for Sarah Palin than they do for Barak Obama when it comes to the necessary foreign policy experience to be President.
I’m on Sarah Palin’s side on this one. If she is smart, educated and well-informed I believe she can be the President of the United States. Now I’d like John McCain and all you Republicans to say the same of Barak Obama. Then we can set aside this experience argument once and for all.
2 September 2008 @ 9:03 pm
You know what’s really funny?
How scared you guys are of this woman from Alaska. The left has just gone totally mad about this pick and it is really, really entertaining to watch.
Oh yeah, Palin is our VICE Presidential candidate. Your guy, who has less experience than Palin, is running at the top of your ticket.
But keep on playing the experience card, keep on bashing her for being a bad mom, and keep up the criticism about her daughter getting pregnant. I think that’s going to be a real winner for you guys.
2 September 2008 @ 9:09 pm
Yes, Palin is your vice presidential candidate, 2nd in command to a man who would be the oldest president in history. Yeah, kind of germane, don’t you think?
I’m not the least be scared of Sarah Palin or, of that matter, John McCain. I just think it is hilarious that McCain deprived himself of one of his major attacks against Obama. If Palin is qualified to be Prez, so is Obama. Period. Did you see the video? It’s disgusting how you guys just can’t answer that question.
3 September 2008 @ 7:19 am
My favorite is to watch them all being interviewed and how they lie about her skills and what she brings to the table. It was a good thing Rudy wasn’t playing poker this morning when he was interviewed on CNN….
3 September 2008 @ 9:45 am
Why can’t you guys see the obvious? She has MORE experience than Obama. More ,get it? As in she’s more experienced than your candidate?
Apparently Obama thinks that running his campaign gives him the experience required to be President. Not that is retarded.
The left is hysterical over this, they want her to withdraw!!! Why do they want her to withdraw? So McCain can choiose a “BETTER” running mate??? Makes no sense.
Yes, the left is shaking in their boots. Please make sure to watch her speech tonight. I thought Fred Thompson hit it out of the park last night!
Woot!!!
3 September 2008 @ 11:14 am
No she doesn’t. You guys think that 18 months as governor is somehow the most germane experience possible. You have proven you hold major double-standards and that you will say basically anything to demean the Left and glorify the Right. None of you have any credibility. All you have to say is, yes, she is light on foreign policy experience. SAY IT! You can’t, can you?
Fred Thompson was a joke last night. Let’s drawl the same old inane, incorrect and over-simplified platitudes over and over. Coleman was lame, Bachman was lame, Thompson was lame. That whole convention is a parade of mediocrity, tired old ideas and an intense effort to hide McCain’s complicity in the 8 years of a failed Bush presidency.
4 more years! 4 more years!
3 September 2008 @ 11:25 am
You funny. (and wrong)
And I’m not saying anything to demean anybody. I’m proud of our ticket. I think we will win, and I think Palin is more experienced than Obama.
I’m not saying anything demeaning. I just don’t know how you can definitively lay out any objective information/comparison chart/whatever to demonstrate in any real way how Obama is more experienced than Palin. I just don’t see it.
However, your post is chock full of demeaning. I’m not calling anyone lame, or a joke, etc. I think Barack is probably a good man when it comes down to it.
I’m just proud of my side and VERY optimistic.
3 September 2008 @ 11:46 am
I knew you couldn’t say it.
I’m glad you are happy with your ticket and I wish you the best. I don’t think McCain/Palin is a bad ticket if you are a pro-life, pro-war, trickle-down ecomonics person that supports Bush on 9/10 issues.
This post is about how “the straight talk express” is not willing to admit that Palin is light on experience overall and certainly light on foreign policy experience. McCain chose to make this an issue which is why it is so ironic. I told you, I’m on Palin’s side on the experience issue. But you guys left yourselves in a very vulnerable position and the squirming we see in the video above is a direct result of it.
Obama’s resume kills Palin’s. If you were hiring a CEO, it’s not even close. Obama’s resume also kills McCain’s. I would hire Obama before McCain without any question about it.
As I’ve said in the past, the only people with foreign policy experience are politicians. You can’t talk about how bad Washinton insiders are and then exclude outsiders because of a lack of foreign policy experience.
3 September 2008 @ 11:48 am
PS, isn’t if funny that McCain canceled an interview with CNN because of the above interview? He’s an angry old man.
3 September 2008 @ 12:42 pm
Hmmm, watched the interview, don’t see any squirming. Maybe you linked the wrong interview?
I think he answered the questions quite lucidly.
Tell me one decision Obama has made related to foreign policy, deploying the National Guard, etc. You guys see what you want to see in this stuff because you are scared shitless of this woman.
Plus, I’ll keep repeating… Your inexperienced candidate is running for President!
Once you guys get done wringing out your underpants maybe you’ll see how silly your arguments are.
Plus all this disparaging of Palin because she has an infant son, because her daughter is pregnant, because she should be a good mom and tend to her family is the height of hypocrisy! I thought modern women could do all that? What happened to the feminist movement? Are women supposed to stay home barefoot and pregnant all of a sudden?
I wish you guys could see/hear yourselves. Your tourning this apparently fine women with an 80% approval rating in her state into a martyr and your going to regret it.
3 September 2008 @ 1:02 pm
My god you are deluded.
I haven’t said a bad word about Sarah Palin except that her experience level is very similar to that of Obama. I also noted the irony that she support abstinence-only sex ed.
So why did McCain think that interview was out of line?
3 September 2008 @ 9:20 pm
I’m not deluded, but I am biased, as are you.
I used to love AJ Pierzynski (catcher for the White Sox) when he used to play for the Twins. He was a mean, gaming, knock your ass down catcher. Loved him. Now he plays for the White Sox and I hate his guts. He’s still the same player, but I have a different perspective. Id do still respect him however.
I don’t think the White Sox fans are deluded for liking him, I understand it. I don’t think you are deluded for liking Obama. I just think your wrong. We’re on different teams and I realize intelligent people can differ on opinions.
I am enlightened enough to understand this. You, on the other hand, are so arrogant, so convinced of your righteousness, that you can’t fathom the other side.
I hope you saw Palin’s speech tonight ‘cuz you guys are fucked.
3 September 2008 @ 9:26 pm
Just look at the way you title this post. “McCain’s Blunder.” I don’t accept your premise, and then you want me to comment? I don’t even take it seriously.
Mark my words, McCain has not blundered, he has made the shrewdest, most intelligent, and most devastating (for your side) choice for VP. Women will come out in droves to vote for this ticket. It’s not cynical either, this woman is very impressive.
It’s the Dems who have blundered, and badly.
3 September 2008 @ 10:53 pm
The blunder was giving up his main attack against Obama in regards to experience. If you watched that entire video and didn’t see that dude squirm, you are deluded. I’m not calling judgment on McCain’s choice (yet).
I know I’m biased but I try hard to be fair. Unlike you.. I’ve been fair to McCain and fair to Palin. You have dismissed Obama as an empty-suited pander machine. I’ve confronted my bias a long time ago. It’s also why I don’t have double-standards, evidenced again in these comments above.
You guys are all in love with celebrity Palin now and yet you accuse us of loving Obama too much. You say Obama doesn’t have enough experience and you LOVE a woman with 18 months as governor as her only germane experience. (I’ve met the mayor of Golden Valley and I wouldn’t vote for them for President.)
You applaud her for being a Washington outsider but give Obama shit because he doesn’t have direct foreign policy experience, something you only get in Washington!
If you would confront some of this stuff instead of regurgitating the latest Republican talking points you would be a lot more credible. Your self-appointed role as the voice of the Right on lolife.com makes you sound like a brainwashed party zealot, something you claim not to be.
Palin does not have tons of experience. ADMIT IT.
Washington outsiders are either good or bad, PICK ONE.
I’ll answer the same — Obama does not have tons of POLITICAL experience. He has lots of other germane experience, though. Washington outsiders ARE GOOD. McCain is a Washington insider.
4 September 2008 @ 6:00 am
I thought she was rather “scrappy”.
Effective speech. Simple speech. Low on substance, but they might be leaving those key issues for McCain to present. I was surprised and impressed that she went on the ‘attack’ before she was halfway into her speech. She can hold her own with rhetoric…so it should be “on”.
From the names of her children it is pretty clear that she inhaled.
Happiest Listeners?
1. Republicans
2. SNL writers (they are going to have a field day with that voice and that look.
3. Dems…. I think they have more of a fight now than they anticipated.
5 September 2008 @ 8:27 pm
Michael,
Again, I don’t agree with your premise.
He did not give up his main attack by selecting Palin. Palin has more relevant experience than Obama.
I made a comment some time ago about Obama being an “empty suited pander machine.” It was hyperbole, I’ve since moderated my tone in order to engage in debate. I’m sorry I made that comment. Let it go.
And, just like Obama, Palin has tons of other relevant experience too, you must give that to her.
I’m glad we have our own rock star now. You have yours, we have ours. Game on.