Where was the great Barracuda Pit Bull, Sarah Palin, after the debates? She was invisible. Democratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Joe Biden was on numerous channels on Friday, supporting his campaign partner Barack Obama. Biden's counterpart, Palin, was nowhere to be seen. So where's Sarah? For what must be obvious reasons, Palin is being kept on a short leash by the McCain campaign.
Palin remains out of her league and far from presidential. McCain's camp knows this, of course, which explains why Gov. Palin is staying out of sight and far from open microphones. And it just amplifies the questionable, dangerous judgement of McCain.
If you want to know about Sarah Palin, take a look at people who know her best – Alaskans. Many have serious questions about why McCain picked such a novice to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
"It's stunning that someone with so little national and international experience might be heartbeat away from the presidency." The Anchorage Daily News
From the Daily News-Miner in Fairbanks: "Sen. John McCain's selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate was a stunning decision that should make Alaskans proud, even while we wonder about the actual merits of the choice.... Alaskans and Americans must ask, though, whether she should become vice president and, more importantly, be placed first in line to become president…Most people would acknowledge that, regardless of her charm and good intentions, Palin is not ready for the top job. McCain seems to have put his political interests ahead of the nation's interests when he created the possibility that she might fill it."
And you have to see the great wisdom in what the Republican State Senate President Lyda Green said: "She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" said Green, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
Even presidential scholars are astounded at Palin's minuscule educational background and qualifications. Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era. So unconventional was McCain’s choice that it left scholars of the presidency literally “stunned,” in the words of Joel Goldstein, a St. Louis University law professor and scholar of the vice presidency. “Being governor of a small state for less than two years is not consistent with the normal criteria for determining who’s of presidential caliber,” said Goldstein.
Frank Schaeffer, son of the late Christian evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer, wrote powerfully, and with a bit of well-founded fear, about the warped political strategy behind it all -- in the Huffington Post: “We have seen the next Mussolini and she's wearing a skirt. Don't let Palin's "hockey mom" image fool you. Sarah Palin is the face of a post-democracy America, post-constitutional and post-freedom America. She is the home town "little Austrian" vice presidential candidate to a cancer-riddled old man who, chances are high, won't see the end of his first term in office if he becomes president due to illness and old age. The woman who said that we don't need to read people their rights (in her acceptance speech) may well be the next president.”
This is the path that America is on with Palin and McCain. Severe lack of knowledge of foreign affairs does not matter to this bunch. Palin looks good in designer glasses and that is all they need. She is not part of the dreaded “educated elite!” as conservative radio talk show hosts proudly proclaim, like being a dumb ox is worthy of a medal of valor. Talk about the dumbing down of America!
“I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major-party ticket in modern history,” said presidential historian Matthew Dallek, a Woodrow Wilson fellow and professor at Virginia Tech.
That should be enough to cause one to vote for Obama and Biden. Who picked this hot air, photo op candidate to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Why John McCain, he who was officially found, by the bi-partisan Senate investigation, to have exercised “poor judgment” in the Keating Five scandal, which was another financial mess he helped create.
McCain still has a double portion of poor judgment! Witness Sarah Palin. We cannot risk him as President of the United States.
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