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Aw, man! I knew that was you!Quote:
Originally Posted by daihashi
Her speech at the RNC is tonight, so we'll get to see her in action pretty soon. But I'd like to see an interview or press conference where she takes some questions too.Quote:
Originally Posted by khronik
dude.. P4B stayed on topic.. he mentioned how she doesn't have the unsavory characters that surround Obama due to the stupid gossip going around about Palin's daughter.Quote:
Originally Posted by khronik
You took it upon yourself to defend Bill Ayers and Obama when this was a Palin thread.
It's more like he can't. He would be calling the kettle black. The office of presidency is an executive office, not a legislative one, The office of governor is also an office of executive power. In a sense she has more experience than Obama and would be better prepared for the demands of the position since she's already held an executive office.Quote:
Anyway, like Obama, there isn't too much to say about Sarah Palin's past experience since there isn't quite as much of it.
Considering Obama doesn't vote nearly 2/3rds of the time I would say he marginally beats her out on the national experience. She does have some foreign policy experience with Canada. There is documented evidence of that, I do not know about Russia and I won't even comment on that. What foreign Policy has Obama written and gotten passed through congress? NONE.. that's right none, Obama has only had 5 pieces of legislation Approved during his time in office, 1 of those things had to do with getting funds to congratulate the White Sox on winning the world series (woopty doo).Quote:
She does have executive experience, which makes her the only person on both tickets with any. She sounds like a really cool person. I mean, a sexy woman who hunts moose? Her husband sure is lucky. Her platform is pretty much just the standard Republican fare, and no matter how you look at it, she has less foreign policy and national experience than Barack Obama.
Well that's pretty amazing considering she hasn't given any in depth interviews. I don't even know how you began to draw that conclusion. I suspect she's stronger than Obama. The only reason we know anything about Obama is because he's been in the spot light for over a year now. Give it time and people will start interviewing her.Quote:
Still, she does come off as not being up to speed on world affairs, and not as substantive as the other candidates.
It's the RNC, How many interviews on foreign policy and international affairs did you see Joe Biden give after he was announced as the democratic VP nominee.
The following isn't directed at you khronik but rather everyone who's breathing down her neck... give her some breathing room. No one was up Biden's butt asking him to give in depth answers and analysis of the direction our country needs to move.
Wow.. you're right it's not unreasonable, but it's a good thing we're voting for most qualified person and not who's not going to die. There have been many people on this forum who feel Obama's would die at the hands of racists if he took office. Personally I wouldn't want Biden as my president.Quote:
Plus, John McCain is getting on in years, so it's not unreasonable to suspect he may have health problems that could at least temporarily require him to transfer power to Palin.
Well despite her pro drilling stance it seems that she's not in the bed of big oil.Quote:
I hope that she does give a speech or an interview. We need to see what she's like, and what she's capable of.
Once in office, Palin took an aggressive stance toward the oil companies. Her nickname from high-school basketball, "Sarah Barracuda," was resurrected in the press. Early in her term, she shocked oil lobbyists when she was so bold as to not show up when Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson came to Juneau to meet with her. Palin, after scrapping Murkowski's deal, would not give Big Oil the terms they wanted, yet insisted that the companies still had an obligation under their lease to deliver gas to whatever pipeline Alaska built. She invited the oil companies to place open bids to build a pipeline, but they refused. A bid by TransCanada, North America's largest pipeline builder, was approved by the legislature in August.
How's that as an example for "change that we can believe in". Sarah Palin told Big Oil to shove off basically. She said that they were negotiating under her terms. Even more impressive she got the Alaska Pipeline underway without using government funding. That alone is better than most politicians currently in office have done against big oil. It's reasonable and benefits Alaska.
Furthermore I wonder where Obama got his idea for windfall profits tax and giving everyone a rebate check from it:
Palin also raised taxes on oil companies after Murkowski's previous tax regime produced falling revenues in 2007, despite skyrocketing oil prices. Alaska now has some of the highest resource taxes in the world. Alaska's oil tax revenues are expected to be about $10 billion in 2008, twice those of previous year. BP says about half its oil revenues now go to taxes, when royalty payments to the state are included. Earlier this week, Palin approved gas tax relief for Alaskans, and paid every resident $1,200 to help ease their fuel-price burden.
I don't necessarily approve of this but this seems to be something Obama fans foam at the mouth over. They love the idea of windfall profits tax.... Look at who was doing something similar a year previously?
For those people concerned about possible Alaska corruption due to Ted Stevens:
In that same interview, she said she intended to change Alaska's relationship with "the lower 48." She saw part of her responsibility as delivering her state's natural gas to those hungry markets. "We're still too reliant on the federal government," she said. She canceled Alaska's support for the "Bridge to Nowhere," a proposed $320 million bridge to sparsely populated Gravina Island, that Senator Ted Stevens, now under indictment for public corruption, famously included in the federal budget.
For those people who want health insurance. Sarah Palin has made health insruance available to everyone in Alaska. She's already walked the walk. If someone can help me find a source for this I would greatly appreciate it. I know this to be fact as I have several friends who live up there in Alaska and speak with them regularly. I've found a few links but I try to post sources from well known media publications so people will find it more credible.
Sarah Palin also assisted with the reform bill that helped to uncover the corruptness in Alaska. I believe she even opened an investigation on herself in order to clear up allegations of any involvement by her. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
The girl has guts.. and she's not afraid to actually stand up for what she believes in. She has a spine of steel... which is more than I can say for the the opposition.
I would prefer to see her in an interview or press conference as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonrider
Everyone knows that the DNC and RNC is just stupid hype. People patting themselves on the back when they should be discussing issues. Honestly both the DNC and RNC are nothing but big pep rallies.
I hope to see a quality interview or speech from her sometime after the RNC. We'll see.
Regardless of what you think of Palin, good or bad, the McCain camapign sure has bungled rolling her out to the public.
They should have known that people would be intensly curious about her because she is so unknown. They should have had her ready to answer questions and do interviews. Instead, they leave the media digging for anything they can get their hands on to define her, and most of it is not good news.
You didn't see the same kind of frenzy around Biden because the public has had something like 36 years to get to know him. He has a solid record that is well known. Palin is unkown and a big surprisse, so they should have been ready for a media blitz. Hell, if she is actually any good at all, they could have used all the excitement to their ADVANTAGE. She is all the media is talking about right now. They have the spotlight, so why aren't they using it? The McCain campaign has struggled to get media attention during this election, but now that they have it, it looks like they can't manage it at all. They are hiding her.
If you don't give the media something, then they just go with what they've got. That's why you've got them pulling out video of her asking what exactly it is that the VP does. And that video of her addressing a church and saying that the war in Iraq is a mission from God and that God wants a natural gas pipeline. It's a fiasco.
They aren't offering anything to put this stuff to rest, so she is looking more and more like Bush's pick of Harriet Myers for Supreme Court --- an underqualified woman picked solely for her gender. The Republican party is not big on affirmative action, but it does seem like they picked an underqualified woman mostly for that fact that she IS a woman, not for her credentials.
Maybe her speech tonight will put some of it to rest, but with the way the 24-hour news media works these days and how quickly public opinion can form, it may be too late.
Has a candidate ever withdrawn a VP pick? Not saying that it will happen --- it's definitely too early, given that we know nothing about her. But if she turns into a real liability, is there precedent for withdrawing a VP nomination?
One thing's for sure --- there will be MILLIONS of people watching her speech tonight. I bet more tune in to see her than tune in for McCain himself on Thursday.