I just thought I’d hop on the Palin thread bandwagon. I hear alot of people complaining that she wouldn’t be fit to be Vice-President, nor if it came to it President. Is she less fit than GWB was? I’m not trying to stir shit here. I don’t know enough about the careers of either to decide it for myself.
If you saw her speak last night, than you must be more than confident that she is more than qualified to be VP. As far as her role as President? She’s not running for president, so I’m not sure why you’re asking.
For the record, I think GWB is a good president. I’ve never bought into the media hype of underestimating him and all that…
So - in your opinion the last 8 years; Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, etc etc etc have all been peachy. There’s setting the bar low and placing it on the floor.
And no - the creationist, separatist-supporting, anti-american, book-banning, influence mis-using, reckless when pregnant, proudly ignorant of world affairs woman is self-evidently not qualified to be Governor of Alaska let alone anything else.
No, I don’t think she would be worse than Bush as president.
I’d agree, but I don’t think it’s setting the bar very high to say that.
Well, that cinches it. What an asshole she is! Obama’s qualifications clearly trump hers. Oh, yessiree, he’s the MAN!
Now that the sarcasm is over, perhaps you can explain dispassionately why she is the bad person you claim her to be.
In another thread, I’m sorry I don’t recall which but it is current, someone pointed out that she has to able to take on the reins of leadership at anytime from day 1 of her Vice-Presidency.
Who knows? You might as well ask if she’d be e better President than Reagan.
The evidence is all out there. Just read and watch. Just supporting a separatist party should be enough to disbar her without supporting creationism and all the other shit floating to the surface. She isn’t even a Governor in any real sense. Alaska? Give me a break. I could do that job in my spare time. No population, no money problems beyond how to spread the wealth. And you aren’t bothered by her self-professed ignorance of the Iraq War?
Show me a serious candidate and I’ll be serious. Honestly. The rest of the world thought Bush was a joke candidate but this is in the realms of the surreal.
I thought the fact that a politician can deliver a speech nicely isn’t any evidence that that person will be a good president. At least, that’s what the Republicans said about Obama last week. 
I didn’t say the past 8 years were easy for him or that I agree with some of his decisions. I just don’t think he is as “evil personified” as the other side would lead you to think. I just don’t buy it. I think he has big balls to stand up for some of the stuff he stands up to. He’s clearly decisive. I don’t like that so many of our soldiers were wounded or died in this war… it could have been planned better.
Is that your spin on her? Good to know.
I’ve seen a lot of chauvinistic, misogynistic, demeaning and vitriolic rhetoric coming from the left regarding this woman… so many untrue rumors. It got really ugly. They only discredit themselves with their hate speech. Just saying… I don’t see Obama or Biden acting like this… they’re taking the high road.
We’ll see how this plays out in the end. I think the Palin choice was a progressive move for McCain. We have a legitimate race now… some real competition.
I’m basing my like for Obama on his presentation, leadership skills and I could care less about his experience. So delivery is evidence enough for me… just saying.
That’s fine… I believe she has the leadership skills to run as a Vice President that could possibly lead to president. Although I’m not focusing on her running as a president. I think Obama is more than qualified to lead as president too…
I’m not bothered by anything so much as what you wrote here. You want me to do your homework on why she sucks in the hopes that I will agree with you. She isn’t a governor in any real sense? Biden’s from Delaware, does that mean he’s not a Senator in any real sense?
I’m willing to accept that she is unqualified in the eyes of some, but it’s up to those people to demonstrate why, preferably without slandering her for things that are out of her hands like her daughter’s pregnancy.
That remains to be seen.
Given her anti-choice, pro-book-censoring, pro-Big Oil views, her belief that God backs the Iraq War and ever more oil drilling, her hockey mom/populist aura and shoot-from-the-hip style, no, I don’t think she’d be worse than President Bush. But not much, if at all, better, either. She at least seems a little smarter than him.
I’m still baffled that McCain picked her, but she does seem to have fired up the GOP’s conservative base.
Well, we all know Delaware doesn’t exist.
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She would be just like Bush. Rove and his evil minions would still control the power. She is in no way able to run the country. She had trouble running a village.
Ah, well, that’s where you’re wrong. The media do not underestimate Bush.
They mis-underestimate him.
I think Bush’s worst flaw is that he is blind to the faults of those who are loyal to him, and does not critically evaluate their beliefs or their methods. I don’t know enough about Sarah Palin to tell whether she shares this flaw.
Her political positions are very similar to Bush’s and therefore equally unacceptable to me, but I really don’t know whether she’d be as bad an administrator and leader as Bush is. She has achieved more on her own merits than Bush had before he became President, so I suspect not.
She is not all that well prepared for the job by education or career, but I’m not sure that matters very much.
To sum up: I tentatively suspect that she would make a better President than Bush, but I just don’t know enough about her to be certain.
I think you’re right about that. I wish he listened more to Colin Powell than that other one ( I forgot his name).