Posted by
Damiano on Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:32:22 AM
It's appalling. In less than 8 hours, every media outlet and Obama
supporter trashed Palin for everything ranging including experience,
integrity and absolute trash talk. Yet, for over 18 months, these same
people have patently ignored Obama's glaring lack experience or
legislative accomplishments and his 20+ years of relationships with
racists, terrorists and felons. Each of the stones they throw
demonstrates a criteria that their candidate has not met.
Let's
assume (though it is patently false) that Gov. Palin is not qualified
to be Vice President due to lack of experience. Were that the case,
would it the same argument be even more true about Sen. Obama? Put more
simply: if both candidates are inexperienced, which would have the
least potential for causing irreparable harm- A President or Vice
President?
Conveniently, this in not the case. Obama speaks
endlessly about Change, but in 11 years of legislative experience has
yet to accomplish anything other than running for subsequent offices,
voting 'present' 130 times and falling infalliby in line with his
parties positions. Palin, in comparison, has accomplished more in her
time as Governor than Obama has accomplished in his lifetime.
It
is clear that Obama cannot hold a candle to Palin's accomplishments,
experience or integrity and is emminently more qualified to be
President than him. But she is running for Vice President alongside the
one politician in Washington who does not only speak about change, but
has a 28 year track record of accomplishing it. Comparing Palin to
Biden is similarly a joke. After 30 years in the Senate, you would
think that he could get more primary votes than Stephen Colbert. Sadly,
he could not. Biden, like the inferior man at the top of his ticket,
unfailingly votes with his party and has a similar, unfailing record of
publicly insulting people based on race, religion, national origin,
intelligence and sex. Even at his VP introduction, he introduced his by
saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is
drop dead gorgeous.She also has her doctorate degree, which is a
problem."
So, not only does the Democratic ticket denounce
women for their intelligence, but it also bans voting for women at it's
conventions.
It is truly sad that on the anniversary of Dr.
King's illustrious "I Have a Dream" speech, the Democrats nominated
candidates in spite of the content of their character, not because of
it.
It is even more sad that less than 24 hours later,
their campaign's mysogenistic first response to Gov. Palin's selection.
Obama later stated that his revised statement is what he really meant
and everyone shout disgard the "hair trigger" of his campaign. Odd that
it's his campaign's "hair trigger" that needed to be corrected,
considering how often he and his surrogates condemn McCain's "hair
trigger", which has yet failed to present itself in this campaign.
But,
this lastest inconsistency and after the fact revision is nothing new.
Obama has done it with nearly every one of his policies and even in his
statements about the Russia/ Georgia conflict. 3 statements and two
days later, he comes around to making the same type of comments that
McCain initially (and correctly) made and the Obama campaign condemned.
The President does not get multiple tries to get things
right when his decisions are of national and global consequence. The
President cannot vote 'present' no matter how politically expedient it
may be. Thank goodness we have John McCain, who seems to not only get
things right the first time, he generally hit things out of the park.
His performance at Saddleback was the first significant evidence during
the campaign of this glaring disparity between him and Obama. I suppose
that the lack of further evidence is due to the debates that Sen. Obama
vehemently calls for but has singularly failed to show up to. Sen.
McCain had the invitation and chair waiting for months, but Obama was
too busy on his marketing junkets to actually address issues. It is the
candidate of Change that has insisted on only the standard debate
template and conspicously avoids questions about policies, in favor of
lofty and undefined rhetoric.
God forbid Gov. Palin should
ever be called upon to fulfill the most dreaded responsibility of a Vice
President, I for one fell confident that she has a consistent track
record or Change that Can Be Documented instead of Change that we're
trying to get you to Believe but have no evidence of and no plan to
achieve.
Perhaps a more fair comparison would be to the
closest peer to the day to day job of the Vice President- to preside
over the Senate. Sarah Palin has lead, from an executive role, the
State of Alaska to implementing a comprehensive conservation and energy
reform and developed new means to help meet our country's energy needs
from the State that has produced the most domestic energy for decades.
She has been to ANWAR and been a part of environmentally responsible
programs. In contrast, Speaker Pelosi gives speeches about saving the
earth while banning voting or debate on energy production and reform.
Palin sold her State's executive jet and put the money back into the
budget while Pelosi was demanding a larger and less fuel efficient
plane so she wouldn't have to stop for fuel while commuting on taxpayer
dollars. Palin seeks to drill oil while Speaker Pelosi seeks to "drill
your brains".
I hope that all the ignorant have fun with your post partisan smear campaigns. Gov. Palin has work to do.