I strongly urge you to check out my good friend comoprozac's blog, Living in Misery. He has a wealth of political knowledge and has posted several good entries regarding the election.
Among them a Daily Show clip that shows that McCain's VP is a complete contradiction to what he has said thus far. He calls out OB's lack of experience but selects a VP candidate that is less qualified and less experienced than OB.
Also, it demonstrates how ridiculous it is to think Paulin is a "Hillary-voter getter" just because she is female. She is the exact opposite of Hillary in the words of Comoprozac and Jon Stewart. Anti-abortion rights, Pro-Oil, Anti-environment, Pro-War, Pro-NRA, Socially Conservative overall. She is under investigation for her own shaddy actions (unjustifiably firing her ex-brother in-law).
I would like to think our voters are more intelligent than the McCain camp thinks they are.
Check out his blog: http://in-misery.blogspot.com/2008/09/may-i-continue.html
2 comments:
Thanks for the shout-out.
Regardless of your political stance, you have to question the selection of Sarah Palin. The oldest possible president in the history of our country just chose a VP that has been the governor of a state for 1.5 years in a state that has a population 1/4 of St. Louis.
Sarah Palin is ill-equipped to be a heartbeat away with a 5-time cancer survivor as the president. McCain met her once and spoke to her twice - one of those on the phone when he offered her the spot on the ticket. Was this really a good choice? I don't think so.
I do agree that McCain picked Palin for pure surface value.. I think he is realizing that his biggest hurdle is his age.. I think he would have made a good pres 8 years ago. I do think he is one of the more sincere candidates we've had in a long time... but I just can't get over the age thing..
Sure Palin is a woman, younger, mother of 4 or 5 kids.. inexperienced with government (which may be good in some regards if your looking for change..).. she seems like a breath of fresh air.. but looking at her views, they are hard core republican right wing stances.. almost a contradiction to what McCain himself is pushing. I heard she is anti sex education in schools (wanting to get rid of those programs) and only believes abstinence is the way to go.. somewhat hypocritical as her 17 year old high school daughter is pregnant.
I'm also not so sure about Obama.. I think Hilary destroyed him the debate they had in Cleveland, and ever since then, the only thing he's proven to me, is that he is a good speaker.
I think we are in one of those situations that people are going for the lesser of two evils.. and this is just a pure popularity contest.. People are more wrapped up in making history (first African-American Pres / first women vise-pres), then actually picking someone to lead the country. But you have to agree that this is truly one of the more interesting and entertaining races we've seen in a long time.
-Mike
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