It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. The Democrats and the Obama campaign are accusing Sarah Palin of being too inexperienced to be Vice-President.
This would be an excellent plan of attack—after all, she is relatively inexperienced for that high office— if it weren’t the case that Obama is clearly even less experienced, and he’s running for an office far higher. Continue reading →
…doesn’t strike me as the smartest move on the part of the Obama campaign.
First of all, that’s more executive experience than Obama has ever had. Second of all, it’s been superceded by the fact that she also has some experience as Governor—an executive office of even greater magnitude—and has done rather well. In fact, her tenure as Governor is longer than Obama’s time as Senator before he left the job to begin campaining.
I begin to wonder just how smart Obama’s advisors are (actually, that’s a lie; in fact, I’ve been wondering for quite some time). Continue reading →
It occurs to me that if the McCain/Palin ticket were to win, both the President and Vice-President would have sons who would either be presently serving or have served in Iraq. And the same is true of prospective VP Biden.
Palin’s nomination has kept me grinning ever since I heard of it. Continue reading →
It occurs to me that McCain’s choice of Palin puts Democrats in a remarkably uncomfortable position regarding that glass ceiling. Not only are they perceived as having dissed women in their choice of Obama plus Biden and their rejection of Hillary, but now it’s necessary for them to criticize the person who has just become only the second woman nominated for Vice President by a major party.
And all this after they’ve already thrown the first one—Democrat Geraldine Ferraro—under the bus for daring to say an inconvenient but non-PC truth about candidate Obama.
[ADDENDUM: I just heard an interview with Ferraro on Fox News. She rightly points out that people vote for President and not Vice President. She also called the choice “exciting,” and said it will appeal to PUMAs who had been disaffected by the Obama campaign. Did I detect a small note of glee in her voice?]
John McCain has announced the stunning choice of Sarah Palin for Vice President.
It’s stunning not only because she’s gorgeous. It’s stunning because it shows that John McCain isn’t quite as predictable and stuck in an old-white-guy rut as the opposition might want to paint him. Continue reading →
[NOTE: I wrote this post a couple of days ago but had kept it as a draft. Now that McCain has stunned me by picking Palin as his VP choice—I didn’t see that coming—I will publish it just as I wrote it.]
Now that Obama has anointed Biden as his VP pick, it’s time to speculate whom it might be for McCain.
I don’t know. How’s that for candor? But I understand why so many people wish it would be Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Here are my reasons, not in order of importance. Continue reading →
I’ve said before that I’m not an auditory learner. Although dialogue is fine, and I never had a problem listening intently to clients, the prepared speech has always been an enormous bore to me.
This was a big problem when I was growing up. Continue reading →
If you wanted to condense the Democrats’ campaign into a simple sentence, this would be it: “Vote for me because I’m not George Bush, and he is.” And, as campaign slogans go, it’s not half bad. Continue reading →
Bill Ayers has been getting a lot of press lately for his connection to Obama and his status as “unrepentant terrorist” from the 60s.
But forget about that for a while, and take a good look instead at the “rehabilitated” Ayers—the “respectable” and “mainstream” professor of education rather than the terrorist. It appears that the Ayers brand of education is the attaining of the same Leftist revolutionary ends by more peaceful and more subtle means.
Read the whole thing. Remember it was written in 2006, without any anti-Obama tie-in.
Obama is protesting an ad that targets his association with domestic 60s terrorist Bill Ayres. Here’s the ad:
Obama is asking his supporters to threaten to boycott stations running the ad. Continue reading →