It just hit me.

Obama/Biden = 2 lawyers
McCain/Palin = no lawyer

Elizabetty, I’m with you.

As for Ferraro, I don’t think McCain/Palin ought to turn down the help.

… I believe the country MUST be convinced she could be President in these dangerous times.

… but I’m thinking of undecided and independent voters. And, I must admit, I want to hear how I can feel safe if she is President.

justdianne on August 29, 2008 at 2:59 PM

Of course it would be nice to have candidates for whom the electorate could tick all the boxes. The reality, however, is a choice between an imperfect blue team, an imperfect red team and some imperfect teams of unknown colours (the independents).
The nation might like to feel fully comfortable but a fully comfortable option isn’t presently available. Are Mr McCain and Ms Palin ‘safe’? No, not fully, but are they ‘safer’ than the alternatives?
And what do we mean by ‘safe’? What circumstances are we thinking of?
Mr Obama is a lawyer. In my opinion lawyers should never be allowed to occupy seats of power because they try to solve every problem with law (if your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail) and they lack the experience, and the intellectual freedom and creativity, to look over and around problems or to evaluate them in terms other than legal. The UK took a real battering under the socialist lawyer Mr Blair for this very reason.
Mr Obama has associated with people who are superficial and unwise. This too is a huge ‘danger’ because no nation simply elects a leader. Whoever is chosen for the top job will be strongly influenced by a whole bunch of other, unelected, largely unknown people. Again, the UK voted for the charming, smiling, eloquent Mr Blair and overlooked the fact that Mr Blair himself and also many of his advisors and confidents (including his wife, fellow ministers and political aides) were intellectual lightweights; overflowing with ideology, short of useful experience, (indeed short of any experience outside their narrow social, political and career circles), and utterly devoid of wisdom.
Mr Obama shares these weaknesess and they are, in my mind, very significant. Should Mr Obama become POTUS, I feel the USA will be not become a better place, and any ‘solutions’ are likely to be superficial and short-lived. It is even unlikely that the USA will become more liberal, because socialist policies often involve greater state control of individuals. Again, using a UK example, it was the socialist government that introduced thought crimes (also known as ‘hate-laws’) and which has attempted to introduce detention without trial for people deemed (by politicians) to be dangerous.
People can and probably should consider Ms Palin’s (and Mr McCain’s) weaknesses and how they might be redressed but context for that debate is not some mythical ‘ideal’ candidate pair but, rather, the weaknesses of the alternative candidates and how they might be addressed.
If the Reds win the election then Ms Palin might one day be POTUS and she might flounder in that role. If the blues win the election Mr Obama will be POTUS and has several characteristics that indicate that he will be very damaging in that role. Complete safety is not an option, but there are two different degrees of danger to choose between.

Ferraro: Palin a “historic” choice for McCain
How does the first female VP candidate feel about the second? Geraldine
Ferraro says that many women feel disaffected by the way Hillary
Clinton got treated by the Democratic Party and the……

Methinks however that before you do some of you might read your own comments.

Elizabetty on August 29, 2008 at 8:19 PM

Nasty is a fair descriptor. However malice is not a prerequisite to find one in receipt of what I might call a “tune-up.”

In case you haven’t noticed, I reserve my ire and fire for those whom I perceive to be dealing in stupidity, lies, bigotry, disseminating bad information and/or lame jokes.

Feel free to say something unfunny, stupid, utterly erroneous and/or unsubstatiated. I’ll respond accordingly.

Your question was fair and well-stated. My reponse was honest. You’re dismissed.

I’m very honest. If what I have to say is painful, then I’m perceived as unkind.

Honestly. I am very kind and giving in my real life. I am equally honest with friends, family and co-workers. They appreciate my honesty. You will never need to wonder if you have a booger on the tip of your nose. I’ll let you know.

My words are often direct, unwaivering and not always “nice.” Don’t come around here expecting me to blow smoke rings at your sphincter.

Since your question seems rhetorical, one might call you “disingenuous.” Nice.

BKennedy on August 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Tell us how you really feel. Refreshing.

The Race Card on August 29, 2008 at 6:40 PM

You can be honest and not be so nasty. You can be honest and not assume that every oher person in the world has malice in their heart.

You are just not very nice, are you?

Elizabetty on August 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM

I’m very honest. If what I have to say is painful, then I’m perceived as unkind.

Honestly. I am very kind and giving in my real life. I am equally honest with friends, family and co-workers. They appreciate my honesty. You will never need to wonder if you have a booger on the tip of your nose. I’ll let you know.

My words are often direct, unwaivering and not always “nice.” Don’t come around here expecting me to blow smoke rings at your sphincter.

Since your question seems rhetorical, one might call you “disingenuous.” Nice.

BKennedy on August 29, 2008 at 2:14 PM

Tell us how you really feel. Refreshing.

I am always pleased to see fools pick fools to run with, as Barry did with BinBiden. I have some distrust of McCain, but this move is tactically and substantively better IMO than anyone else available. LA needs Jindal more than AK needs Palin, and having a Downs syndrome child who she refused to abort after learning of the issue signals a bravery Pelosi and fellow abortionists cannot muster.

The whole Rep slate was underwhelming, and McCain may have sensed the best move was to by-pass them all but find a good executive. I think he has done that. He rises in my eyes.

Damiano on August 29, 2008 at 4:08 PM

+9

point off for missing Biden’s third brief run, in 1992. :)

I think they’re using the tropical storm as a pretext to ignore Palin moreso than Obama’s speech. Tropical storm headed for NOLA all over again, evil Republicans going forward with their convention anyway and ignoring the little people.

There’s the new meme.

So if choosing Palin was to try and grab those votes then it was a poor choice. However I like the choice for other reasons. Adding another old white dude to the ticket was the worst thing McCain could have done.

Still not voting for him or Obama in any case but that’s how I see it.

Gotta wonder what the Islamists would think of that?