Where in the world is Sarah Palin?
While speculation continues to buzz that the governor of Alaska is at the top of McCain’s VP list, some news outlets are reporting she’s in Dayton, OH for the McCain rally while ABC News maintains she is still in Alaska.
The Associated Press states:
A Gulfstream IV from Anchorage, Alaska, flew into Middletown Regional Airport in Butler County near Cincinnati about 10:15 p.m. Thursday, said Rich Bevis, airport manager. He said several people came off the plane, including a woman and two teens, but there was no confirmation of who was aboard.
Palin would certainly make an interesting VP choice. The 44-year-old mother of five is younger than Obama so at least she’s a counterbalance to the ancient McCain. She graduated from the University of Idaho with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in politics.
Speaking of politics (oh, yeah that's important too), the first-term governor considers herself a "maverick" and is credited with reforms in her often forgotten state.
Oh, and did we mention she’s a woman. Take that Obama – you don’t have the monopoly on minorities in government.
Plus, she was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant in 1984.
Nice.
Updated: Palin is McCain's pick.
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The Republican party has become a caricature of itself. Posted 08/29/2008 11:21 AMReply
As a woman I wouldn't vote for Clinton! I don't like Obama and if she's half the person she needs to be I will vote for she and McCain! Posted 08/29/2008 7:53 PMReply
Good for you John! You're buried what was left of that pathetic campaign! Posted 08/29/2008 9:50 PMReply
As far as global warming--apparently even the GOP can't doctor NASA's satellite observations. Check for yourself on their site. It's pretty frightening to see the massive loss at the polar caps. And guess where all that water's ending up, and what the result of the mass of frigid air arising from the melting colliding with warmer air masses produces?
I'm not a student, I'm quite a bit older and glad that I won't have to see the worst of the fallout from climate changes, but if I was the age of some of the posters, I'd be doing all I could to see that someone who was smart enough to process some of these very complex issues was running the country and not another dingbat who gets their jollies with a shotgun.
I happened upon this site because I wanted to check out Palin's age when she had her DS child. Rather than a 'gift from God'--the incidence of having a child with DS increases dramatically with age--and I can bet that child, if it could understand, wouldn't thank her for the gift of the limitations of Downs, which are physical as well as mental. (Years ago I almost married a pediatrician and when this issue came up, even he was surprised at the increase in Downs after the mother’s age of 40.)
Along the same line of looking at everything that supports Palin’s limited understanding as a 'gift from God' was her inaugural address in Alaska. Their fossil fuel was seen as another gift from God, but apparently God didn't give humans sufficient intelligence to utilize less destructive forms of energy so they wouldn't eliminate entire species and jeopardize the planet itself--both of which I might have considered as 'gifts from God'.
McCain has stated many times that he intends to stay in Iraq until we 'win'. There is no way to win in Iraq, just as there wasn't in Vietnam--and I lived through that. McCain seems bent on re-living it until he gets a different ending, and if I wanted to psychologize, as people did about W's motives, perhaps this is his revenge for his period of imprisonment. Regardless, it's totally unfair to bankrupt a country on an invasion that was totally unjustified. It wasn't Bush's treasury to squander, but he used the same justification that McCain will use--"if I'm elected whatever I do is what the people must have wanted." (By the way, kiddies, get ready for the re-emergence of the draft—so don’t worry about the job situation post-college too much. Interestingly, one of McCain’s possible distant relatives, per Time magazine, is known as the ‘father of the draft.’)
Also--I'm not an Obama campaign worker, although I'm going to get my own lazy butt out there, as the prognosis for the US is so bleak under the McCain/Palin ticket that I'm not sure the country will survive as other than a third-world country. For those really annoyed with immigration issues, there is a bright spot if they win. Legal Mexican workers have told me they'll leave if MC/P win as the economy will be better in Mexico. I have my own issues with illegal immigration, but I'd rather see them resolved by better policies and law enforcement than a failed economy.
If you're too young to remember that the economy has worsened under the GOP and improved under the Democrats for probably the last 30 years--go do some reading. I was in my MBA program when Reagan was president and he created an economic mess--I can't believe it when people act as if those were 'golden times.' We all went back to school due to a recession and an oil crisis in '75 and the ‘trickle-down’ concept was viewed as so ridiculous it wasn’t even addressed in classes.
Alaska, thanks to its natural resources, does not have the massive problems of the national economy, nor the international issues of the US. Obama chose for his running mate someone who adds strength to his areas of lesser expertise. One of his greatest strengths—besides the insight and judgment that enabled him to vote against the Iraq invasion--is being able to get persons together to work as a team.
Prior to Obama’s success working with both parties effectively in enacting legislation was his experience as editor of the Harvard Law Review, not an easy position. It not only requires the intellect to reach that point, but a presence that elicits the respect of some highly intelligent peers and the ability to get normally highly competitive personalities to work together effectively. With McCain and Palin, two so-called ‘mavericks’ with somewhat opposing views (not to mention McCain's massive ego and vindictiveness--the reason his classmates called him 'McNasty') our government will be polarized at a point in history that it just can't afford. Palin was mayor of a very small town, then supposedly ‘cleaned up’ government, after ousting her mentor, in two years.
Even this story is true, which stresses credulity, we need to develop effective healthcare and education programs, tax structure, an energy program, and effective international security policies, ad nauseum, all of which will require bipartisan cooperation. Most of these will end up in the control of the same Republican brownies who have exploited and destroyed them over the last eight years, despite any sincere intentions of reducing ‘pork’ and dishonesty. The problems we face need to be addressed now, and there’s nothing that is destroying this country financially more than McCain’s pet pork, the Iraq war.
If you're hoping for a job when you graduate, do some homework before voting and don't even consider voting for a ticket because someone's 'hot', or because it’s cool to have elected a woman. Things are way too critical right now to vote for superficial reasons like gender or race, either positively or negatively.
This is the most important election for our country in decades. You have the right to choose the direction of this country—please don’t take it too casually—you’ll be living, and possibly dying, with the consequences. Posted 08/31/2008 5:10 PMReply
daaaa ???? She can't cram for the V.P as if it were a high school exam the experience comes from life long interest and participation in public services and a real interest in foreign affairs and history, please don't give your valuable vote to a inexperience cocky revengeful little twit. Posted 09/12/2008 07:23 AMReply