OlderFri, 29 August 2008 at 2:19 pm
John McCain to Sarah Palin: I Choose You!
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate at a campaign rally on Friday in Dayton, Ohio.
“Governor Palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president,” the McCain campaign said Friday. “Governor Palin has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of. Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today.”
This move will sure pick up a few of the Hillary Clinton voters!
Little known facts: Palin came in second place at the Miss Alaska pageant in 1984. The 44-year-old Idaho-native also is the mother of five children.
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Obama’s big thing was “change” and saying McCain is ‘old washington”. The he goes and picks and old washington guy for his vp. Obama says he is just fine on foreign policy even is he has no experience and then goes and picks a guy who has foreign policy experience to bolster his own lack even though he says he doesn’t lack it. go figure. Obama says McCain is same old same old but McCain gets the last laugh picking a fresh face for his VP pick. Guess McCain had the guts to change that Obama doesn’t. And for all those saying she is this or that-how about you actually listen to the lady speak. This gal is smart, charismatic, and spunky. There are those who say she doesn’t have a lot of experience-well, see, she is the student, McCain the older statesman-the teacher/professor. She learns from him. Barack has it backwards. Biden should be the teacher/professor because Barack doesn’t have anything he can teach anyone. Maybe how to sit under a racist pastor and how to be friends with an admitted terrorist. People should actually check out Palin and listen to her speak before bashing her.
I will vote for McCain. I am very disappointed about Obama’s so called “change”. He could make the first change by choosing Hillary as vice President, but he totally blew it.
Obama is a fake, phony.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!
YEP dems, its christmas in august!!!!
Before McCain chose this VP, I thought Obama has a huge chance to win. But after McCain chose Sarah Palin, I think Obama chance to win has reduced a lot. He may even lose.
I am glad McCain made Palin his VP choice. I will vote for him. I am a woman, well-informed on the election, and prefer McCain over Obama any day!!!!
I 2nd what Sara said above. And why is everyone saying Obama has been a senator for so long? I looked up his bio and it clearly states US senator 2005 - present. My vote is with McCain!
I was so excited about this choice I almost peed my pants.
No one will reverse ROE vs. WADE. You are stupid if you think so. At a certain point in pregnancy fetuses should get rights. Partial Birth Abortion are just sick.
I’m so excited that Palin could be the next VP of America. McCain has shown time and time again that he is for change. Most of you apparently forget these last 8 years. McCain fought Bush and took a beating from him in 2000. He is moderate republican and isn’t as far right as you perceive.
O.M.G,
Some of you (fake?) posters claiming to be switching to John McCain are really scaring me.
As an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter I am just disgusted reading all the troll posts claiming to be a “Hillary supporter” Yea right,
Listen carefully.
McCain is 72 years old.
72 year old is the average life expectancy for a HEALTHY male.
John McCain has had cancer multiple times.
This woman knows NOTHING about foreign policy.
This woman knows NOTHING about economics.
She is was the mayor of a town of 7,000 people.
She is in an investigation with the authorieties.
Nobody knows her
Would you really want her leading this country????
WTF. ARE AMERICANS REALLY THIS STUPID?
SHOULD JOHN MCCAIN DIE AND IRAN COME IN AND NUKE THE HELL OUT OF US WITH THIS ***** IN OFFICE, YOU ALL SO CALLED HILLARY SUPPORTERS DESERVE TO DIE.
I am repulsed that John McCain thinks women are all this stupid. Do you know you are just falling for that old mans trap? You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
Obama (the mouth) vs Palin (action) hmmm, I think Palin wins in the experience debate!
I can’t believe people are still saying that Obama made a bad choice for VP and should have picked someone who didn’t want it and was never in the running for it just because she’s a woman.
You people are absolutely the reason why Bush is still in office, and why America is the laughing stock of the world.
Biden with Obama was BRILLIANT. Now he can make all those changes he’s talking about because he has a Washington guy who has built relationships for years and can get things done. Otherwise, it’s just gridlock.
Also, all the lack of experience is about FOREIGN POLICY experience, you idiots!! Are you people really that ignorant that you hear some phrase or snippet on TV and start repeating it without knowing what you are talking abou?!?! Obama has less foreign policy experience than McCain, but this woman might not have ever even left the country, except as a tourist!!
Slam f-ing dunk!!!!
Bye bye uhhhhhhbama!!!
Even my 8 yr old makes fun of uhhhhhbama and his uhhhhs and stutters……
This woman is the real deal!!! Love her!!! Her speech, totally about her, and what she stands for…… I won’t go into how the dem/libs are total liars!!!
# 211 remember da truth @ 08/30/2008 at 8:41 am
I can’t believe people are still saying that Obama made a bad choice for VP and should have picked someone who didn’t want it and was never in the running for it just because she’s a woman.
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RDT, those who claim to have ever been a Hill supporter never were if they’re now choosing to give it to McCain/Palin simply because of some false sense of womenhood solidarity and especially when these two women couldn’t share more different views on the biggest of female issues.
For McCain to pick Palin in the belief that now “all the girls will now come running” because they now have a “replacement” for Hillary is one of the most insulting political moves I’ve ever witnessed.
He diminishes the groundbreaking accomplishments of HRC becoming the first woman in America’s history to finally crack open (she didn’t simply crack it) the glass ceiling to make way for a woman to run as a contender from now on instead of a novelty, and basically he’s saying that women are stupid; that we will put our fundimental reasons for voting for Hillary aside in favor of throwing are weight behind him (McCain) because he’s now got a woman on the ticket, and sadly, there will be those who will allow themselves to be used by McCain/Palin proving that yeah, the only requirement needed to get their vote is two X chromosomes.
jpf
Original JPF,
You’re right, but look at how easily manipulated people have been by Karl Rove for eight years, and it’s the same soccer moms who read the tabloids and believe whatever makes them feel good rather than use their brains.
These are the same women who themselves think one woman is the same as another, and a man will leave one woman he’s with for another simply because she’s pretty, or younger, or flirts with him, without ever thinking of WHY that man is with that woman.
We were with Hillary not just because of women’s issues, but because of economy issues, foreign policy issues, energy policy issues, etc. Each woman is as different as each man, and I really believe that yes, America CAN be that stupid.
I was proud to be American again after the Democratic convention. Someone comparing the fireworks to the Olympics in Beijing is why I say America is stupid. Apparently, they thought it was some sort of contest over who had the best show, instead of listening to the speeches and thinking about what was being said.
Anyone who paid any bit of attention for the last three months would know Hillary did NOT want the VP slot and wouldn’t have taken it. She did everything she could to get that message across, and to say, look, Obama is similar to me on the issues. It wasn’t about voting for me, it’s about voting for what’s best for the country. Bill Clinton told why he “loved” Joe Biden for the choice.
To pick a woman who sounds like a kindergarten teacher giving a speech about our beautiful children at a PTA meeting who has already been found to have flip-flopped on the bridge to nowhere (Sheryl, you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about if you can’t even spell it), is under investigation, and has only ’stood up to her party’ to be even MORE conservative is not the person to have in a position she herself wasn’t even sure entailed.
I can’t imagine this woman meeting with the Saudis, or European leaders. Can’t you just see her talking to Putin? She has “spunk” — oh good, she won’t cry or run away, but really, does she have the fortitude of a Kay Bailey Hutchison or Hillary Clinton to go toe-to-toe with world leaders? If she doesn’t know what the VP does, she probably doesn’t even know who the world’s leaders are!
This is simply not just black and white, there are gray issues as well. As a Democrat and a HRC supporter, I cannot and will not in good conscious vote for Obama. Never had faith in his empty sales. On the other hand, McCain by far has more experience but is in the wrong party. Admittingly, choosing Palin has sparked an immense curiousity. Will it be enough to pull that lever in November?
Byotch is not going to break the glass ceilig, she is going to put women’s rights back one hundred years!!!!! Obama-Biden 08. At lest Obama won’t trample the constitution he is a constitutional lawyer and has run a campaign like no other in the history of the United States….now that is alot of experience. He is a genius and that’s what we need in the white house someone who understands the issues, he gets the people of the United States and the world!!!!!!
I am falling in love with Gov. Sarah Palin. She has a very fascinating story. She has more experience in governance than Obama.
First she was for the bridge to nowhere than she’s against it…flip flop….now she is under investigation for abuse of power…I wonder what else is she hiding under that beehive lol. Mccain couldn’t even let her stay on stage by herself, the body language was so awkard…I bet Rove’s people made him pick her It was an awkard blind date because he only met her once and spoke to her over the phone. LMAO!!!!! I don’t trust his judgement he seems a little out of it…plus he really wanted to pick Joe Liberman but he knew that the Rove people would trash him like they did Harriet Myers. I see Paris Hilton in this pick LMAO. She really got somewhere by being pretty.
I hate politics. He has made a good play though. I think he only picked a woman because he knew that would shake things up. I doubt very much if Hilliary was running against him he would of chosen a woman. This woman looks plastic and too perfect.
In the end although I would like to see Obama win, it may very well be McCain. I wish Hillary was still in the race. She has worked her @ ss off and deserves to be president.
It is so hard to let go of power and the republicans will do anything to keep their corrupted administration going. They have no idea what Country first means especially John Mccain. He hides under his POW status but he is has PTS I would hate someone like him having his hands on nuclear weapons…..we are all going to hell!!!
I love Sarah Palin, I will vote for McCain because of her. She will be a fantastic Vice President or President. She can do it. McCain/Palin 2008.
I am sick of Obama’s cheap talk no action. Go McCain/Palin 2008.
You’re americans are ridicolous. McShame is a ****…. joke. You’re idiots of the first category if you gonna vote an old guy that have picked another idiot (beauty queen and idiot!) anti-abortion, yes to the death penalty, no to the animals (she kills them and love it!!) and NO foreign experience.
YOU McCain supporters ARE ALL A ****…. JOKE AND DESERVE TO BE IN A COUNTRY FULL OF IDIOTS LIKE YOU (IGNORANT 100%) AND I HOPE THAT IF THAT MAN AND THAT SOMEBODY IS GONNA ELECTED YOU’RE COUNTRY IS GONNA BE HELL ON EARTH! BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA IS HOPE & CHANGE AND TALKS WITH HIS HEART, BUT THE IGNORANTS ARE TO DUMB TO UNDERSTAND THIS.
WELL FUC… YOU MCCAIN SUPPORTERS!
Loves it! After the spectacle that was the DNC the other night, I was starting to wonder if I should switch loyalties, no more, Obama is full of fairytale promises, everything to all men, you name it, he’ll make sure you have it.. SAD. McCain you did the right thing here, this woman has grit, she is feminine and strong, I am so fired up right now, Mr. McCain you’re getting a check from me today!!
It is beyond ridiculous that any supporter of Hillary Clinton would vote for McCain simply because he chose a woman as his VP running mate. If you care AT ALL for the principles for which Hillary stands, you should not vote for a woman whose platform is exactly the opposite. Clinton supporters, please, this is not rational thinking and you know it! Palin is anti-choice, supports creationist teaching in schools (under the label “intelligent design”) and is an NRA supporter. This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how vastly her political beliefs differ from that of Hillary’s. Please, don’t be reactionary! Remember why you support Hillary and don’t disavow Obama because you feel betrayed by the Democrats. Otherwise, you are just giving into superficial partisan politics that not only does a disservice to women (and women’s rights), but seriously underestimates the ability of American men and women to make intelligent and rational decisions about who we want to run our country.
Obama/Biden 08!
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