Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
seeing as how she is Governor and not VP I feel it would be inappropriate to throw her into a diplomatic situation. That is not her role yet...

Just as I felt it was inappropriate for Obama to do the same and pretty much act as if he were president.

Anyone remember the seal Obama used, it was a mock of the official presidential seal. How do you think foreign officials feel about talking to someone who has no actual authority to do something. Do you honestly believe they want to talk to a governor? Or a fresh Senator from Illinois?

Obama played the media and Palin realizes that this is pointless for the moment. Although I would like to see her in a question and answer or a debate forum

offtopic: Found this video of Biden.. seems like a real nice guy <sarcasm>! Also nice to see that he's magically grown hair over the years

YouTube - 1988 Road to the White House with Sen. Biden
First, the fact that these people could soon be world leaders is enough for fellow leaders to talk to them. In all honesty, as a leader, it'd make more sense to talk to any one of the candidates over president Bush because he has all of 4 months left as president.

Second, McCain also went overseas for photo-ops and speeches, albeit the speeches were smaller scale. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me.

Third, senators SHOULD talk to foreign leaders just as much as presidents because, collectively, they DO make up 1/3 of our government. The Executive branch is not the be-all end-all branch. It is supposed to serve under Congress, and Congress under the Judicial branch.

The only out of place person in this race is Palin who hasn't even served one full term as governor and as for being the mayor of a small town, that doesn't even compare to being President. At least Obama, McCain, and Biden have had a few years on the hill. They should know more about the duties of a president than a person who, up until a year or so ago, was the elected leader of a grand city with a whopping 7,000 people.

Those videos posted earlier about Obama pulling the race card sounded much more harmless to me than they were made out to be on even liberal media outlets. I would have said the same thing if I were a half black man named Barack Hussein Obama running against a man who spent a good portion of his life in the era of segregation. It wasn't a smart political move, imo. Oh well.

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