My bet: Sarah Palin won't be on the ballot come November. McCain's message is getting killed. And though people like me love Lil Abner, the electorate is just too well-educated to want her a heartbeat away. We saw this with Harriet Miers. So then the question is, how will she bow out, and when? It will happen in the next two days, and she will put it on herself, her family could not handle the pressure, her daughters couldn't. Maybe there will even be a health twist, baby Trig needs too much attention to go to Washington, Bristol is rushed to the hospital…
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"electorate is just too well-educated to want her a heartbeat away."
Agreed. But I would change "too well-educated" to "just barely educated enough."
Maybe today.
If it gets to a nomination fight at the convention, that is the nail on the coffin.
Intrade.com has only a 15% probability of Palin withdrawing. Very low.
And, also on Intrade.com, McCain's chances of winning the presidency remain at 39%. I'm surprised; I would think and hope that number would be plunging down into the twenties and teens after this VP selection debacle and what it says about McCain's judgement.
I guess this is the thought process of at least a plurality of the American electorate:
"I think it would be terrific to have an under-educated, superstitious rube as Commander-in-Chief of the US military with her finger on the "nucular" trigger!
I think it would be great to put a regular old mediocre dysfunctional family in the White House to guide the nation!
I think the rest of the world will be most impressed with how our society has chosen to make the highest offices in the land just an extension of reality television!"
I think she will last another week. Or until her Miss Polar Bare contest pictures start appearing on the Internet, which ever comes first. All though then she might pick up my vote. Why should I waste another vote on Ralph when I could really rock the status quo.
frigin Bill Christol and the christian lobby ..a marriage made in embicility heaven.
i only wonder how long before the entire neocon universe of supernovas will collapse into the black hole to which it is destined.
their stupidity and lies have been on stage like a hollywood production of political madmen and heavy handed frontmen for the elitists who back them.
Me thinks: Mondoweiss wittingly or unwittingly is taking the Jewish Oligarchs line on this. …….. It all starts in the family, & if that's public, that's unacceptable. When I was a kid we had Edward Heath as a Prime Minister – He was a bachelor!
Wishful thinking doesn't make something happen.
Not surprising to see your tribal contempt
start to show through. You are really
channeling Phillip Roth on this post.
Obama's mother was a single mother his
father was some kind of a kleptocrat.
You support him because he represents the
New World Order, but he and Michelle are
just affirmative action empty shirts. His
wife gets paid 300 large to re-distribute
wealth to the "community". Obama is involved in "Community" organizing? Take
the blinders off they are hacks and lightweights.
She's not qualified because she doesn't know SQUAT about the critical issues that she might have to govern on.
To take the cowboy approach to governing is more of the same as George W Bush.
You want a change from that idiocy. Obama is the change.
This well educated electorate? That gave the world Bush & Cheney? Not once, but twice?
Palin is governor of a state / Obama
was a "Community Organizer" and was
fast tracked to the senate because the
Republicans ran nut-job Alan Keyes against him.
She couldn't possible know anything about
issues. No, Alaska has no issues. It's
just so parachocial compared to the south side
of Chicago.
If Palin is such a terrible choice I would think Obama supporters would be uttering prayers of thanks that McCain selected her. Instead, they're denouncing everything about her from working outside the home to her hoop earrings. It appears that some people are really annoyed that the Republicans had the nerve to put a woman (who is married to someone who is part Eskimo) on the ticket.
As inexperienced as Palin is, she still has more executive experience than Obama.
I know. I know. Obama ran a presidential campaign that had more employees and a far bigger budget than Palin had in Wasilla. But as legal scholar Ann Althouse has pointed out, since win does running for president make you qualified to be president?
To all those who think Palin will quit the campaign in the next few days, I would compare the fuss over Palin's pregnant daughter to Obama's Rev. Wright problem. The difference is, when the going got tough, Obama threw his grandmother under the bus. So far, Palin has offered nothing but love and support for Bristol.
So thats the ploy. Its an attack on Obama.
How could Obama know anything about economic or foreign policy issues? He's only been a federal senator for 2 years.
McCain has achieved bi-partison legislation, has "backbone".
Yet, McCain demonstrates recklessness, shoot from the hip, gambling with the country's future (in his comments and his actions), while Obama demonstrates sobriety, thought, inquiry, coalition building.
And, the base of an administration that is capable of governance.
In contrast to the cowboy odd couple of deregulate, reduce taxation, militarize, ignore governance.
The same as Bush in what is important (war, bluster, unilateralism, deficit spending, government expansion in the name of government contraction, taxation, supreme court nomination criteria) and different in what is inconsequential.
A third Bush term is what is proposed.
It would be wonderful to root out corruption from Washington. Time to start at home with the Republicans.
They better hope to lose, or else their Congressional minority will sink much much further.
How many republican Senators and reps would get indicted, how many zeros?
Ok, this is scary. I like her. And when I look at the other people here who like her. I think the end is upon us.
How the high and mighty fail to recognize the right of "ordinary" people to participate in high offices. Theirs is but to do and die in the U.S. military and to vote for either/or political party candidates. The insufferable snobbery that pervades comments on Gov. Sarah Palin is something to behold. "Primitive." Phillip Weiss calls her. Some berate her journalism degree from an Idaho college because it isn't Yale. One calls her a "boob." Another argues that she ought to be taking care of her five children instead of running for VP. All in all she is uneducated and unqualified for the office. Indeed!
I come from Barre, Vermont, back then a city of 5,000 where my dentist was mayor. But small is where one gets to know ordinary people, the backbone of this country. The alienation of big city life provides no such laboratory. The lonely crowd in the holier-than-thou club views life from the passenger seat of a moving car
Married at 18, mother of 5, I didn't get to see the inside of a university, a small state university, until age 40–and 6 years later earned a doctorate from Columbia University.
From a Jewish family–shtetl Jews who pulled ox carts in Lithuania and Russia–I had a father with an eighth grade education, and spent more than a few days riding in the pack of his truck. But my "uneducated" father was wiser and more discerning than any academic I know.
"If a thief looked like a thief, he wouldn't be a good thief," he often said. This alone has been more helpful to me in researching and writing on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East than any class at Columbia. I became a scholar but I'm happy to admit that I never became a "lady." Sarah Palin will hold her own for much the same reason.
Fineline,
An education in journalism from the University of Idaho is credentials for a good job in Coure de Laine, or Boise, and to achieve governorship of Alaska is quite an accomplishment.
But, it is in no way demonstrated competence to prospectively serve as president of the US.
Its great to like her, and admire her even. Its another thing to have confidence in her prospective ability to be president.
To trust her (a real word), she would need to show that she understands the issues involved. McCain doesn't even do that.
Obama is a sober moderate (liberal). McCain is a gambling "moderate" (conservative in an odd meaning of the term).
Its McCain that people are expressing harsh criticism of, not Palin (that will come on the basis of her positions and skills, or absence of). Criticism for even considering exposing the US to untested, unviewed.
Obama inspires confidence in me. I find him up to the job.
I don't find McCain to be, he's so reckless.
He's a better senator.
"An education in journalism from the University of Idaho is credentials for a good job in Coure de Laine, or Boise, and to achieve governorship of Alaska is quite an accomplishment."
How exactly does an elite education prepare a person to lord over the people of Idaho or Alaska from Washington or New York? How's that working out for everyone?
The nation really does need to dissolve into smaller states that better reflect the needs, aspirations and customs of the locals. My guess is that a politician who doesn't have his eye mainly on global governance would be better for the nation and the world.
i like palin.
witty or witless and the sword or the toilet brush are proof there is a god and creationism is at dominant play and not darwin. if darwin's evol worked, these 2 would never have appeared. with god, humanity needs examples of the banality of evil and with ersatz israel mankind needs to see pure evil.
"How exactly does an elite education prepare a person to lord over the people"
the harvards teach good ways to steal from the many and at the same time to destroy everything. and morals and ethics are taught away.
Lil Abner
re lil abner, the "abners" were fighting and getting dirty while little kristol-the- coward's poppy who did have a uniform but was to effete to get it dirty and was to busy holding his elite nose and wetting his pants and wanting his beloved typewriter and a soft bed. sweat and dirt were just too much for this little man when he "served".
but how he and his can lie and steal money and steal rewards.
Ah, Witty,
On what do you base Obama's record beyond that of his effusive oratory? And what of Obama's "judgment." Well, let's see. Obama's initial claim to fame was his speech opposing an Iraq war. It was with this club he hammered Sen. Clinton for her vote to give Pres. Bush the power to go to war. Didn't he know, and don't you know, that Biden agreed with Hillary and cast his Senate vote in favor of the president? And Biden did more: At the time, he delivered a glowing speech on the Senate floor supporting his vote in favor of our commander-in-chief's "judgment."
As for your judgment, the wisdom of old Herbert Spencer still holds: "Men believe to be true what they prefer to be true." Apparently you believe in the words of Barack Obama. I don't blame him; he is what he is–a seller. I blame the buyers.