Obama’s Campaign Attacks Sarah Palin For Inexperience
Well I must say I have underestimated the Obama campaign once again. With the announcement of Sarah Palin as Vice President I thought to myself, the only downside to the choice was Palin’s minimal time spent as Governor. At the same time, I did not figure this would be an issue, beliving (perhaps foolishly), the Obama campaign would not be naive enough to use her lack of experience as a talking point, consider Obama’s own short time spent in the Senate. Apparantly I was wrong, and the Obama campaign has decided to be the pot calling the kettle… well you know:
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.
I am guessing somewhere around October the Obama campaign will eventually come to the realization that while saying McCain-Palin=Bush may recieve standing ovations from his existing supporters, it does nothing to attract moderate independents who are looking for more than rhetoric from their next President.
Burton’s statement that Palin is committed to the agenda of Big Oil is utterly absurd. As Governor Sarah Palin passed a tax increase on oil company profits, similar to the Obama proposal. Her State is currently wondering how they should spend their $5 billion budget surplus, so charges of failed economic policy are laughable as well.
Republicans can only hope the Obama campaign would be so naive as to continue pushing the inexperience theme. It will only serve to remind the American people that Obama himself lack the experience necessary to be Commander in Chief. Lest we forget, his own Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden said exactly that, only 6 months ago.
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The best thing about Burton’s comment is that apparently he believes McCain-Palin will win the election. I mean, he didn’t say if, and or but, he said McCain has PUT HER a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Burton, your “Freudian” slip is showing!
Ha, good point Carol, I didn’t even notice that.
How pathetic. McCain just lost the general election in a matter of twenty four hours. It all started with Obama’s acceptance speech last night, and ended with the announcement this morning of Sarah Palin as his vice president. I dare you to compare being a U.S. Senator, tackling national issues, solving problems, and bridging the partisan schism through compromise and pragmatism to being the governor of a state with more caribou than people–for two years, after being the mayor of a city with less than 8,000 inhabitants. Frankly, Charlie, I can’t wait for the veep debate. Then, McCain’s complete lack of judgment will come full circle. But before that, we’ve got to trudge our way through next week’s Republican National Convention. Inevitably, people will compare McCain’s speech to Obama’s–and, naturally, the former will pale in comparison to the other. This is just grist to the Democratic mill. But the prospect of what you might write on November 5th as McCain delivers his concession address, I’ll admit, excites me even more than that.
P, I love hearing liberals jump up and down like school girls every time Obama gives a speech. It reminds me of the old band Milli Vanilli (not sure if I spelt that right). Milli Vanillia lip synced all their songs because the artists that actually sang them didn’t have the “look” necessary to be popular. Obama is the same in the sense that he doesnt write his own speeches. If you have ever watched Obama speak impromptu you will realize that he is not as great an orator as you claim him to be.
Palin has EXECUTIVE experience, as oppossed to Obama who only has legislative experience. Name ONE Obama accomplishment. I am not talking about co-sponsoring a bill, that is not an accomplishment, every bill his co-sponsored someone else wrote. What bill did he write?
When even Joe Biden, Obama’s VP choice claims that Obama is not ready to be President, you should know that your candidate is flawed.
Sarah Palin has fought corruption within her own party, exposing one of the GOP chairman in her state, and speaking out against Ted Stevens and Don Young. When have you ever heard Obama speak poorly of his own party, unless he was running against that person?
I think she is an excellent VP pick, and the Obama campaign made a poor choice to attack her experience when you consider Obamas own lack of experience. After all, she is number 2 on the ticket, Obama is number one. If she is too inexperienced to lead, in the event that something happens to McCain at some point in the future, then Obama is to inexperienced to lead right now.
P.S. In case you were checking the other post you commented on to see if I responded, I have deleted it. If you wish to have an intellectual debate I am more than happy to, as evidenced by the multitude of back and forth’s we have had here in the past. When you open your comment with “You idiot” however, I cease having that discussion. I am of the opinion that once someone reverts to name calling, they have already lost that debate.
Well, just as you seem to be misinformed about Barack Obama’s health care proposal (you seem to think it mirrors socialized medicine somehow, and that it would be, in that regard, a single-payer system, which would completely neutralize the pharmaceutical industry, much like in Canada, where the government finances a universal single-payer health care system by way of higher taxes and doctors deal in generics rather than brand-named medicine. Even if Obama cared to do this, which he doesn’t, he couldn’t; things as they are in the United States are so institutionally ingrained that it would be all but impossible to change anything about the current system.), you are also misinformed as to the workings of his campaign. I say this because you say in a very matter-of-fact tone that he doesn’t write his own speeches, which is not true; he has a team of advisers and editors, but the actual writing aspect of it is his province. Unlike John McCain, who plasters his name on all of his ‘Good Soldier’ military propaganda in a large, bold font, right above a curious little line that reads… with Mark Salter… Barack Obama can actually string enough words together to make a sentence. Now, the notion that because he doesn’t deliver oratorical gold off the cuff he’s not the one writing his speeches is pretty shortsighted. No great orator can weave words perfectly into place in a matter of seconds–rhetoric takes time to write and even more time to edit. In debate settings, one is called upon to muster up some relevant words quickly, which is why a lot of candidates use what are referred to as stock responses to common questions. Barack Obama does this as well, but to a much lesser degree than does John McCain. Case in point: The Saddleback Forum… Rick Warren poses, “Is there evil? If so, how do we go about combating it?” Obama thinks for a second and responds, “I think that we need to acknowledge the presence and existence of evil and that we need to confront it swiftly but with humility, because a lot of evil has been wrought in supposed attempts to defeat evil.”–An allusion to Iraq, for instance, where more than 100,000 civilians have been killed for a war with a country that had absolutely nothing to do with the attacks on September 11th. In the wake of those attacks, John McCain donned his warhawk pin and started to wax manically about bombing Baghdad, whereas Obama denounced in the most absolute terms the efforts of this administration to use 9-11 as a pretext to invade a country and subvert a government that had done nothing to us–and which, moreover, we had assembled ourselves during the waning years of the Cold War. Regardless, when McCain was asked the same question, he was much more succinct: “Defeat it.” I’d take Obama’s nuanced, deliberate answer over the recklessly bellicose response McCain offered any day.
And let’s be honest, Charlie. Sarah Palin has had EXECUTIVE experience in Alaska, a state with more caribou than people–one in which, rather than have per capita income, they have per capita square footage of permafrost. Apropos of foreign policy, she’s tabula rasa–a blank slate. And don’t say she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is next to Russia… I’ve already heard that one today. Regardless, one can hardly hope to juxtapose the state of Alaska, which consists of roughly 700,000 inhabitants (slightly more than Wyoming, and far less than the population of every single one of California’s congressional districts) with the Federal government. Call it a microcosm or whatever you will, but Alaska is not the United States Government. And let’s not talk about exposing anyone, because according to what I’ve read, she has a few skeletons in the closet, too.
No, Hillary supporters will not throng McCain headquarters to join in a campaign that does not speak to their concerns; no, Sarah Palin is not a good, decent, or even a mediocre pick for vice-president–she’s a worse choice than Dan Quayle; and no, I don’t think you won any argument. You just chose not to respond, lest the ‘you idiot’ part find renewed resonance.
Anyway, you’re going to lose. Just telling you now to psychologically ready you for the experience.
As a Democrat, I’m quite happy with Palin as the choice. Obviously, the “experience matters” policy of McCain’s is dead. Since experience is more or less off the table now, that leaves judgment, and I believe Obama holds the best hand there.
Moderates, by and large, support Roe v. Wade. E.g., the status quo. Palin and McCain will drive them away from their party. I don’t see much effect on the vote of women, as most women are Democrats (because Democrats are the staunch supporters of gender equality, which McCain has voted against anytime it’s ever come up). That won’t change simply because a Republican on their ticket has a vagina.
Other than the religious right, I don’t know anyone who looks at Palin and her admitted dearth of experience and thinks that she’s the perfect person to answer the 3 AM emergency calls if McCain has a heart attack and dies.
McCain had only met her one time before he picked her, so if that’s what he considers a serious vetting for a position one (72-year old) heartbeat from the presidency, well, that’s some seriously dangerous lack of judgment. Best that we see his lack of judgment now though, rather than after it’s too late.
i think a vote for john mccain will be four more years of poverty for the poor and middle class let,s face bush cut medicare fund the iraq war and how about insurance for children didn,t bush veto that bill? no you cannot convence me that mccain will not give the american people four more years of the same bush has done nothing about alterative energy and mccain will will follow in his foot steps.
Charles, you are slightly misinformed with regards to the childrens insurance bill Bush vetoed. The SCHIP program was instituted by Republicans 10 years ago and was coming up for a renewal. The President asked Congress to authorize $5 billion in additional spending, however the bill the presented to him authorized $35 billion more. He was not vetoing the program, only the huge expansion of it. I wrote about it here
Because of course insuring children is much less important than waging a war against people who never attacked or so much as thought to provoke us… We can spend 10-12 billion a month in the latter enterprise, but we can’t spend ANY capital, be it political or tangible or both, on making certain every child in America can go to the doctor and be treated for whatever illness they may have without their parents’ having to incur exorbitant medical bills for the simplest of procedures, often precipitating an unpleasant but necessary declaration–not of war, mind you, even though that’s the only kind of declaration you and your party know to make, but of bankruptcy. A Grand Old Party indeed. An age-old farce–the reason our bridges are collapsing all over this country while we spend billions to rebuild Georgia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, putting the interests of others before those of the American people. The bright group of folks that continue to suggest that we cut taxes, shrink government, and not commensurately drive down federal spending, propelling this country–your country as well as mine, because the elephant hasn’t got and will never have a monopoly on patriotism–further and further into debt. That’s the Christian way–enrich the already wealthy, and impoverish the already impoverished.
P, the point is once a program is extended, it will never be contracted. SCHIP is something that will be with us forever, if we expand it now, it will only continue to grow, and cost more and more money. The conflict in Iraq is short term, relatively speaking, that money will not be in the budget in 2020 for example. Democrats are complaining about the money we spent on Iraq, not because we have a deficit, but because they want to spend it elsewhere. Here is a novel idea, how about once we pull soldiers out of Iraq, we utilize that money to pay down our debt, rather than increasing entitlement spending with it?