Kirsten Powers says that by attacking Sarah Palin as viciously as the Democrats are doing, the Democrats are proving that they are male chauvinists.
SHE’S just a beauty queen.
She’s another Dan Quayle.
And ironically, the biggest criticism of Sarah Palin, John McCain’s veep choice, is she has no experience. Funny, coming from the Barack Obama camp.
Following McCain’s announcement of Palin – the first female to be put on a GOP ticket for the White House, and only the second in US history – the Obama campaign skipped the niceties and blasted her as the “former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience.”
She’s also a governor of Alaska (my home state), the first woman in that office and the youngest elected in state history. She has an 80-plus percent approval rating. She has turned the state upside down with her reformist zeal and has made enemies of the Republican establishment.
And she can talk energy policy, one of the biggest issues facing this country.
Is she a gamble? Definitely. But so is Barack Obama, who has himself dismissed experience as a prerequisite for leadership, despite his spot atop the Democratic ticket.
Sarah Palin is a middle class self made woman who started at the PTA, was elected to the city council, ran for mayor of her town and won, and then was elected governor. She’s obviously an intelligent, driven woman and she’s going to bring in a lot of women voters on Election Day. And that is why the Democrats are falling all over themselves to try to make her out to be a female Dan Quayle.
Between her time as mayor and governor Sarah Palin has 13 years of executive experience while Barack Obama has zero. The Democrats say nominating Palin takes the experience issue off the the table. No, it certainly does not. What it does is point out even more clearly how little experience Barack Obama has. And the foreign policy issue is a nonstarter also, because Obama has virtually no foreign policy experience. And, whatever foreign policy decisions he’s had to make so far (like opposing the troop surge in Iraq) have been dead wrong.
Are you trying to say that giving a speech at a rock concert in Germany doesn’t qualify Barack to be POTUS? But now he has ALL the German stoner’s on our side!
I’m telling on you. You’ll be lucky if “the one” doesn’t smite you down.
“The One” will be very lucky if he isn’t completely destroyed on Election Day. He has better things to worry about than whether I bust his chops! Besides, Obama couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. He makes John Kerry look like a tough guy.