Is Sarah Palin qualified to be President of the United States?

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

Everyday I Write The Book
 hello, I am no re re he just understands where comon folk need help.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Everyday I Write The Book
 hello, I am no re re he just understands where comon folk need help.

     States is referring to Obama's supporters, not Obama. Learn the distinction.

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Everyday I Write The Book
 hello, I am no re re he just understands where comon folk need help.

No, Obama is racist trash who made 4.3 million dollars last year, went to Harvard and doesn't have one f'in clue about the "common folk". Remember, we're just clinging to our guns and religion. And also that white peoples greed hurts a world in need. Also remember, the US is a downright mean country and his wife was never proud of her country until saint Obama ran for president. The Dumbasscrats don't give three sh*ts about the blue collar American. The only thing they are interested in is repressing blacks and hispanics with economic repression as a result of dependence on the federal government.

Everyday I Write The Book
 hello, I am no re re he just understands where comon folk need help.

     States is referring to Obama's supporters, not Obama. Learn the distinction.

No, Obama is pond scum as well.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

PiT (The Physicist)
I am an obama supporter.

[specific_name]

Hell no.

Neither is Obama but most of the morons here don't have a clue.

Obama and his supporters are a bunch of retards, I swear.

Absolutely, I'd like to see Obama go down like McGovern. I'm an L....but I'm so sick of the Obama cult.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Everyday I Write The Book
 hello, I am no re re he just understands where comon folk need help.

     States is referring to Obama's supporters, not Obama. Learn the distinction.

No, Obama is pond scum as well.

     Didn't he once cite his ownership of a three-bedroom condo in Chicago as proof of his hardship?

PiT (The Physicist)
I am an obama supporter.

     I am aware of this.

[bgwah]

Hell no.

Neither is Obama but most of the morons here don't have a clue.

Obama and his supporters are a bunch of retards, I swear.

PiT (The Physicist)
I am an obama supporter.

You're twelve so your support is about as meaningless as Eboweds DNA code.

The conservatives on this forum are hilarious. If a liberal said anything like this there would already be a 100 post thread in The Atlas sub-forum. But when one of their own does it? No prob!

[minionofmidas]

My newspaper pretends that this pick was a big surprise.

When she was listed on all the shortlists, and the only reason I didn't think it likely was that it seemed too obvious, including too obviously pandering.

[Ogre Mage]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

[minionofmidas]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Palin's level of information is not going to be lower than your average voter's.

[Ogre Mage]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Palin's level of information is not going to be lower than your average voter's.

It doesn't matter.  Voters will see from her biography that she has little background on the issue and if she makes misstatements on foreign policy, the media will make sure people know.  It will reinforce the perception that she is out of her league on national security.  Kaine would have come under the same scrutiny.  It may be worse for Palin because of stereotypes that women candidates are less authoritative on national security.

[minionofmidas]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Palin's level of information is not going to be lower than your average voter's.

It doesn't matter.  Voters will see from her biography that she has little background on the issue and if she makes misstatements on foreign policy, the media will make sure people know.  It will reinforce the perception that she is out of her league on national security.  Kaine would have come under the same scrutiny.

Kaine is a Democrat.
If it didn't sink Bush, for chrissakes, it won't hurt a runningmate of McCain's.

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Ah, that may be true.
Anyways. We'll see.

[Ogre Mage]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Palin's level of information is not going to be lower than your average voter's.

It doesn't matter.  Voters will see from her biography that she has little background on the issue and if she makes misstatements on foreign policy, the media will make sure people know.  It will reinforce the perception that she is out of her league on national security.  Kaine would have come under the same scrutiny.

Kaine is a Democrat.
If it didn't sink Bush, for chrissakes, it won't hurt a runningmate of McCain's.

U.S. Politics in 2008 is a completely different political environment from 2000, when Bush first ran.  And McCain is 72 years old, so the abilities of his successor are more of a consideration than usual.

[minionofmidas]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Palin's level of information is not going to be lower than your average voter's.

It doesn't matter.  Voters will see from her biography that she has little background on the issue and if she makes misstatements on foreign policy, the media will make sure people know.  It will reinforce the perception that she is out of her league on national security.  Kaine would have come under the same scrutiny.

Kaine is a Democrat.
If it didn't sink Bush, for chrissakes, it won't hurt a runningmate of McCain's.

U.S. Politics in 2008 is a completely different political environment from 2000, when Bush first ran.  And McCain is 72 years old, so the abilities of his successor are more of a consideration than usual.

Should theoretically be. Not sure they will be.

[Lunar]

I predict she makes foreign-policy gaffes, like confusing important countries, before this campaign is done.  I suppose that McCain's campaign might be giving her a crash-course in how to find Georgia on the map and so on, but that might not cover the intense media barrage.  I mean, most senators probably couldn't find X country on the map, and that will only be amplified for someone who comes from a rural area in a remote part of the globe.  No fault of her own, but I predict a gaffe or two on foreign affairs that will be used by the Obama campaign to "prove" her inexperience - you heard it here first

[Associate Justice PiT]

I predict she makes foreign-policy gaffes, like confusing important countries, before this campaign is done.  I suppose that McCain's campaign might be giving her a crash-course in how to find Georgia on the map and so on, but that might not cover the intense media barrage.  I mean, most senators probably couldn't find X country on the map, and that will only be amplified for someone who comes from a rural area in a remote part of the globe.  No fault of her own, but I predict a gaffe or two on foreign affairs that will be used by the Obama campaign to "prove" her inexperience - you heard it here first

     Then again, this is America. She could probably impress the average person by finding Canada on the map.

[Lunar]

We tend to hold our leaders to a higher standard than we hold ourselves.

Prior to 2007, she had only visited one international country, Ireland (according to her press secretary).  Canada was not mentioned.  Afterwards, she's visited national guard troops in several countries.  I'm not trying to hold it against her, I just expect her to be more like the average American when it comes to knowledge of affairs, meaning an inability to find Afghanistan on the map (which would not be good PR).

Like Kuwait:

[minionofmidas]

We tend to hold our leaders to a higher standard than we hold ourselves.

Prior to 2007, she had only visited one international country, Ireland (according to her press secretary).  Canada was not mentioned. 

Palin was born in Northern Idaho and spent her early childhood in Skagway AK, so avoiding a visit to Canada would be no mean feat.

[politicaltipster]

In answer to the question - no.

[JSojourner]

he smokes about a pack a day.

false

No, it's true.  I ran into him at the mosque this morning and invited him over for a drink or two, but he declined.  You know, he's pretty observant about the faith.  Inshallah.  But he did burn a big fat joint with me, and after we finished it, he lit up a Marlboro.  Then, before we parted company, he'd finished that first Marlboro and just before it went out he lit a second one from the dying cherry of the first.

Did you have time to abort any babies, sacrifice any virgins or sell any crack to school children.?  Or was Obama too busy planning the next 9/11 attack?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

and that will only be amplified for someone who comes from a rural area in a remote part of the globe. 

hur, hur, hur. rUralz aRe sTupId!!!!11111

[JSojourner]

It does not appear that she is.  Palin's resume seems similar to that of Tim Kaine except the state she governs is even smaller.  I was opposed to a Kaine selection by Obama.  She is going to have to do some serious cramming to get up to speed on foreign policy/national security and I just don't think she has the time.  Biden will kill her on this issue during the debates. 

Kaine was too inexperienced because he was a Democratic, one term governor.

Palin is extremely experienced because she is a Republican, one term governor.

You have to learn to sort these things out.

[??????????]

and that will only be amplified for someone who comes from a rural area in a remote part of the globe. 

hur, hur, hur. rUralz aRe sTupId!!!!11111

Does anyone wonder why these guys can't win office outside of those elected by their state? As we've seen by their supporters here they must be pretty clueless.

[KeyKeeper]

Is she qualified? I would say not as much as I would like, but can she do it yes. Just like Sen. Obama, he isn't as qualified as people would like, but I believe he can be a good President.

[TheWildCard]

Okay let's break this down.

DEMS: LOLOLs @ MCL4ME He picked someone as inexperienced as Obama (who is running for President) to be his VP (to be President-in-training aka that person that doesn't do much unless something happens to the President, and if something did they'd already have a lot more experience just by being VP for a while... Are ya'll betting that something is gonna happen to McCain? Who is playing the "politics of fear" card now?).

I like to look at it this way. Lets say we have two football teams. Team #1 has a very experienced and seasoned QB who has played in the pros for 15 years and is an all pro as their starter and a backup who is a rookie.

Team #2 has a QB with one year of experience and a backup with 16 years of playing experience.

So if I'm the defensive coordinator for team #2 I can't go after the QBs of team #1 with a strategy to take advantage of inexperience when  their starter has so much experience.

If I'm the defensive coordinator for team #1 you bet I can take advantage of a guy who has only played for one year.

These two are similar in that the VP or backup does not even do anything much unless something happens to the starter. So in conclusion, McCain can still attack Obama campaign with inexperience.

Maybe I'm just deluded but I can't see how you can call running for the Presidency with little experience and running for the VP with little experience as the same or even remotely similar things.