Does the Palin pick neuter Biden?

Congratulations! You really nailed it! A lot of hot air came out of Obama/Biden baloon!

texted my 31 year old female friend who lives in PA....she was a Republican who switched to vote in the primary for Hillary.....asked her what she thought about Palin...her reply....unimpressed.
this is going to backfire on McCain big time. Now I'm not one who believes you need experience to be president...if you did the founders of our country would have put it in the constitution. but when ed rollins can only write online today that she got her nickname 'barracuda' on the basketball court in high school and that she was a Miss AK who plays the flute....i couldn't help but think, God forbid something happens to McCain in the first year or 2 in office and she's president???!!! No way!
gonna backfire big time.
he chose her as reaction. whenever you do that it means you haven't thought things through.

Palin's going to have a hard time explaining the troopergate scandal.

She also completely undermines McCain's attacks on Barack's experience or lack thereof.

Governor Palin should be applauded for her tough anti-corruption record in Alaska. She went after her own top Republican party insiders and blew the whistle on them. That's a breath of fresh air when compared to the behavior of our own Governor who protects and coddles the corrupt political Bosses in Bergen County and elsewhere.

But although a popular gubernatorial chief executive in Alaska, she governs a state with the population of about 670,000, less than many counties here in New Jersey.

Alaska's population is also smaller than the state of Delaware. Joe Biden has a distinguished national career, possessing a complex grasp of a laundry list of domestic and international issues. He is prepared for the White House.

Governor Palin barely qualifies to be a County Executive in New Jersey.

Nevertheless, Senator Biden would be wise to treat the Alaskan Governor with the utmost respect and deference in the Vice Presidential debate. If he comes at her too hard, he may look like Rick Lazio when the young Congressman came off as a bully in his U.S. Senate campaign debates with Hillary.

Biden is too smart for that. He will flash his smile and avoid interrupting her on the debate stage. And then he will dazzle the moderator with facts and the passion that he is famous for, fueled by a stellar career on the national scene.

Joe Biden will handily defeat Sarah Palin in the debate with a careful gentlemanly manner.

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Weil,

Generally, I would agree that her executive experience trumps the legislative experience, particularly when you consider the 36 year long run of drivel that has been served up by a blowhard like Joe Biden.

But it really seems a bit unfair to suggest that Barack Obama has no executive experience at all. In spite of the aura that has been pumped up about him, the one we have seen with our own eyes, there is some evidence that he is really quite a modest fellow in that regard, after all.

Otherwise, how to explain his failure, and the reluctance of his campaign, to point to his "executive" stint as the Chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge? Only within the past few days have the records of that enterprise come to light.

The crew in charge there did manage to spend a good $50 million dollars in grant money, developing certain educational reform measures for Chicago . . . such as one requiring teachers to qualify for credentials and proficiency in well-known academic areas as "social justice."

Well, it seems that Barack Obama shared his leadership roles there with a homegrown terrorist, one "Professor" William "Bill" Ayres, of Weather Underground fame. You may recall Ayres motto, "Guilty as sin, free as a bird!" 

You may have also heard that on September 11, 2001, terrorist BIll Ayres was actually quoted in the NY Times saying he did not regret setting bombs, and he even said that "we didn't do enough" terrorist bombing here in the United States.  Amazing.  And his lovely wife, Bernadine Dohrn, is an admirer of mass murderer Charles Manson!  Dig it!  Nice people, huh?

The American Issues Project has also launched this ad to raise questions about the relationship between Barack Obama and terrorist William Ayres.  That caused an eruption of efforts to silence the group, and intimidate those who run the ad.  It seems that free speech doesn't mean much to the Obama campaign.  Take a look at the extensive back-up documentation that they used to support the claims they made in the ad.

As it turns out, the Obama campaign is surprisingly quite testy about the efforts of NRO writer, Stanley Kurtz, to examine the executive roles of Obama and Ayres at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, so much so that they have taken to calling Mr. Kurtz (who is a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard) a "slimy character assassin" for publicly requesting the release of the papers from the Obama/Ayres years.

Why, you might almost think they had something to hide!

After all, Obama has already told us all that Ayres was "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood." Kurtz, meanwhile has just granted a lengthy and informative interview with Milt Rosenberg of WGN 720 in Chicago, in which he describes what he has found so far in the newly-opened Chicago Annenberg Challenge records that are housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

You can hear a podcast of the entire interview here. Just click where it says "Listen Now!"

No doubt someone will also want to go back and find out whether the children enrolled in the Chicago school system have in any way benefitted from the results of expenditure of that $50 million grant on improving education in the City of Chicago -- you know, like having shown improved test scores as result of "social justice" training, that sort of thing. 

by Trochilus

I can see the dems at their computers today, still gnawing at their feet trying to make some sense out of what happened after their "woodstock" the other night.

Obama is an elitetist, so is his wife. They tried to have their little kids mug and yes they were cute for the public, but Palin has young kids of her own too and NOT an elitetist.

I do not see this backfiring on McCain, but giving what the GOP has prayed for, for a long time, change!

Biden I am afraid, will look like an amateur at the debates because he only knows how to act like a bully, a thug and now he can smile all he wants, but she will be able to fact him down.

Oh, and in all of Bidens years and Obamas, how many pieces of legislation have they pushed through? Enacted? Palin 2 boys 0

How will Biden mop-up when debating Palin? By telling Neil Kinnock's life stories and presenting them as his own?

Y'all realize Joe Biden is a plagarist, right?

"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone

Who'd have thought John William Cummings, aka Johnny Ramone, would be a conservative? It's like Winston Churchill allegedly said, "If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Anyhow, I love the selection of Palin. She and people like Bobby Jindal are the future of the GOP - young, smart people of varying backgrounds who are willing to fight for what's right, even if it means rooting out corruption within the party.

Conversely, Barack Obama is the future of the Dem's - raised and mentored by burned-out leftist radicals and revolutionaries from the '60s, trying to make America more and more socialist.

After spending about 4 years reading and studying history and economics, socialists like Obama scare the living daylights out of me.

"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone

I know desperation has its privileges, but anyone actually delving into the Neil Kinnock "episode" knows what really happened. also I know you Hannity koolaid smearmiesters will say anything including out and out lies to win. but what do you expect from a bunch of swiftboaters the fact remains, you had the worst President in the last 8 years (debating that, says it all). And you actually want to have 8 more years (errr, if that) of the McSame. True Americans want to pull this country together. so grow up. but knowing you can't -- this is going to be fun -- trashing back McC, the intemperate coward, and the dingbat, who abuses her office to get back at her brother-in-law, is going to be an easy and SWIFTBOATLY done. btw, wonder if McC will call the dingbat what he calls his McC wifey?

Of course Bush was "the worst President in the last 8 years." He was the ONLY President in the last 8 years so really, he was the worst. . . and the best.

As for Kinnock, Biden quoted Kinnock's autobiography and tried to pass it off as his own words, for crying out loud. It doesn't get any more absurd than that.

Lastly, leftists spent 3 times as much money trying to discredit Bush than the "swiftboaters" spent. I fully expect the left to exceed their numbers from 4 years ago in their baseless attacks on McCain.

It must be nice to have someone like Madonna on your side, comparing McCain to Hitler.

"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone

You're forgetting the hundreds (if not more) of watch-parties where people gathered to watch the acceptance speech. Some of those had upwards of a hundred people in a room cheering together for Obama.

I just don't see similar enthusiasm for McCain, especially when the NFL comes back that night.

Obama was an Illinois state legislature for 8 years, being 1 of 59. Then he became the junior senator of Illinois, 1 of 100. Three and a half years later he wants to run for President. During all this time, his name is not on one high profile piece of legislation. The one subcommittee he chaired, on issues regarding the war in Afghanistan, never had one hearing. During his time in the Illinois state legislature his favorite way to vote was "present". So based on this experience and his ability to give a great speech, he's ready on day one according to Democrats. He can be at the top of the ticket.
Palin was a member of her city counsel for 4 years. She then became the mayor, a position she held for 8 years. She then became the governor of Alaska, and has been for almost two years. Each step along the way she's held positions where she's been the one person in charge, helping mold and then implementing budgets and dealing with issues as an executive office holder. True, Alaska may be a small state, and she was mayor of a town of under 10,000 people. The experience she has though, is that of an executive. Yet that executive experience makes her nomination beyond the pale because it's not experienced enough to be on the bottom of a ticket?
If she is so inexperienced, what does that say of Obama. The question then would be, do you want inexperience at the top of the ticket or at the bottom of the ticket?

I forgot to mention Obama sat on boards as a community organizer. Even then he couldn't be a leader. But he gives good speeches, so he can be at the top of your ticket and he looks good on camera so he can be the Democratic nominee for PRESIDENT.

If Barack had nominated Kathleen Sebelius for VP, Hilary supporters, who are already simmered, would have seen that as the biggest insult possible, and the Democratic Party would be in big trouble.

Wow, a Republican that has been feuding with Palin for two years said bad things about her. Stop the presses. People...of the same political party....not like each other? Have we ever seen such a thing in New Jersey? Oh, and comparing Obama to Lincoln before Obama has even done anything to prove himself, other than give a great speech? The GOP is really onto something in his supporters thinking of him as a messianic figure.

There you go, folks. Another name-calling bomb throwing liberal. Nice. But then, when you can't shoot the message, you shoot the messenger. 

"I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.”
- Johnny Ramone

He even lifted the biographical portions of Kinnock's speech as if they were his own. That was about the only part of your post I felt like responding too. As the rest was full of drivel, Mc(insert insult), random shots about McCain and women (so did the NYT ever susbstantiate their claims of an affair? how's that investigation going?), name-calling, "UnAmerican". It's like I'm reading DailyKos.

HamiltonJunkie,

I'll bet Joe Biden thinks his IQ is higher than yours!  Listen to the long string of out-and-out lies Joe told here, and then read all about it in this beauty of a story back then in the NY Times, written by EJ Dionne. 

Remember also that Dionne is now and always has been a shameless Democrat acolyte, and yet even he tore Biden a new one! 

That's partially because Joe Biden has always been a blowhard and a serial prevaricator, especially when he is talking about himself -- which is quite frequently.  He's just too easy!

Maybe you'll have a good "explanation" for Joe's pack of lies?  

by Trochilus

Joe Biden admitted today that when he had his hair transplants the doctors made a tragic mistake and castrated him as they were harvesting hair follicles from his pubic area...

Obama made a statement to the press that "All references to Joe Biden's lack of testicles should be off limits"

JOM

I am voting for McCain and "The Milf"