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I hope the main stream media will take up this story and do their job in vetting this most unqualified vice presidential pick. This selection alone proves McCain’s incompetence in not understanding that government actually has a real job to do.
Scholars question Palin credentials – Fred Barbash and David Mark – Politico.com
Could Sarah Palin really be the next commander in chief if our 72 year old Republican candidate is elected and is unable to fulfill his term? Below is an excerpt of an email distributed by MoveOn.org. Note every piece of information is corroborated and can be independently verified unlike negative mailings sent out by the Right on Senator Barack Obama.
McCain disdains Senator Barack Obama’s supposed celebrity while his candidate is plastered on many magazines. He claims Senator Barack Obama is not experienced enough though he served for many years in the state legislature and the US Senate as well as active involvement is social issues that had material effect on working people’s lives while Palin has been mayor of a small town of 7000+ and governor of a sparsely populated state for 1.5 years.
We want a President that has good judgment. Good judgment dictates that we have the confidence that said president will appoint people he needs to fulfill the tasks of the country in a responsible way. He must appoint people based on their skills, education, and experience. McCain has failed desperately and with this picks proves that the slogan “Bush’s 3rd term” holds true, as just like Bush has appointed unqualified people to vital offices, so will McCain based on his first executive decision.
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FROM MOVEON.ORG Mailing: Yesterday was John McCain’s 72nd birthday. If elected, he’d be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for “inexperience,” here’s who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people. Huh? Who is Sarah Palin? Here’s some basic background:
This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family. We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here’s a sample: She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She’s a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK She’s vehemently anti-choice and doesn’t care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK I think she’s far too inexperienced to be in this position. I’m all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn’t done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain’s part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he’ll get our vote by putting “A Woman” in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She’s a global warming denier who shares John McCain’s commitment to Big Oil. And she’s dramatically inexperienced. In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he’s made a very dangerous decision for our country. In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain’s vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family. Thanks for all you do. –Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team Sources: 1. “Sarah Palin,” Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008 2. “McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate,” NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008 3. “Sarah Palin, Buchananite,” The Nation, August 29, 2008 4. “‘Creation science’ enters the race,” Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006 5. “Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science,” Huffington Post, August 29, 2008 6. “McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy,” Sierra Club, August 29, 2008 “Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past,” League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008 “Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor,” The Times of London, May 23, 2008 7 “McCain met Palin once before yesterday,” MSNBC, August 29, 2008 |
Barack Obama’s classmates and professors at Occidental College recall an intelligent young man gaining a focus that would shape his future. (Video by Scott Helman, Globe Staff; Produced by Jason Tuohey, Boston.com Staff)
Small college awakened future senator to service – The Boston Globe
This is an enlightening article on John McCain. It also begs to question the integrity of the entire family and machine that brought him to power. I hope Obama’s people are ready to bring up the semblance of organized crime and convictions of her family if the Right brings any negative ads on Rezco.
McCain has had the nerve to equate Senator Obama as an elitist that is out of touch with the American people and a rock star. I guess he was projecting. He is the one that lives like the typical Hollywood rock star.
McCain and the Right Wing continues to tell us we are not seeing what we think we are seeing. This reminds me of an old blues song in which a man comes home early and finds his wife in bed with another man. She confronts the husband forcefully and tells him he is not seeing what he is seeing, he is simply dreaming. Give me a break.
McCain unsure how many houses he owns – Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen – Politico.com
Today McCain confirmed to a supporter that he supports the draft. He is a war monger and only the draft will allow him to fight all the wars he wants to fight.
President Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear engineer and 59th out of 820 in his class at the Naval Academy. Many of his policies though ridiculed were correct. Ronald Reagan’s though not a scholar was a proven leader and worked his way up without assistance from a rich family. President George Herbert Walker Bush was a competent intelligent president who new when to bend. Bill Clinton was the ultimate intellectual.
While all the above mentioned presidents had different value systems they could all articulate their positions. They were intelligent. 2000 and 2004 brought us George W Bush. He is arguably the dumbest least competent and inarticulate president we have ever had. He was ranked in the bottom 20 percentile of his class. He has figuratively bankrupt our country with his tax policies and war mongering, got thousands of Americans, Iraqis, and others killed, and destroyed our moral high ground with his support of torture. Unfortunately, John McCain is in lock and step with all of the above. He is the definition of incompetence. He shares so much in common with George W Bush. He partied a lot. He graduated 5th from the bottom of his class (894th out of 899th). Most of all he intends to continue bankrupting the country with tax breaks for the very rich and continuing our bellicose war attitude.
AMERICA WAKE UP.
This is actually good news in that in the last few elections the one with a good lead before the convention loses. That said, it is important that the Obama team tightens its message and point out the real McCain.
McCain winning in new poll, follows trend – David Paul Kuhn – Politico.com
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