According to McCain aides, Palin was not personally vetted to any length until the day before he offered her the job. Additionally, it has now come to light that she did NOT make it known to him that her daughter was pregnant until after the offer.
Details here: Political Wire: Palin Lacked Sufficient Vetting
So we now have a gender and evangelical pandering decision made by some McCain staffer, putting the vice presidency into the hands of a person that lied about her family, is personally hypocritical and a failure regarding family planning, ultra right-wing, has exactly ZERO foreign policy experience except to perhaps trade beaver pelts with wayward Russians that make it across the Aleutians, has never been to a foreign country and wonders, on television, what the VP does all day? Oh yeah. She’ll also be a bit busy with her 4 month old child and figuring out where the guy that they’re going to shotgun into a wedding with their promiscuous daughter is going to live. (I wonder … will we have to create a new designation for the secret service? First Grand-Bastard or something?)
And we have a presidential candidate, who’s all consuming desire for power, impulsivity and temper have crossroads into a potential administration that will need to preside over the largest deficit of all time, 2 concurrent wars, national economic emergency, a housing crisis, a mutating environment and the need for a massive restructuring of the world’s energy layout.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this just a bit much for an ex-almost-Ms.-Alaska and a guy that doesn’t understand email? Are we really, seriously, going to consider someone who has no clue at ALL about the international stage for president just because she’s “spunky?” That is a designation you apply to some of her female assets if you are interested in her for a different kind of relationship, not for President – which is what we must look at. According to insurance actuary tables, there is a 1 in 3 chance that McCain will not make it through 2 terms. Macabre, yes – but this is pretty vital stuff. And that is for a normal, non-cancer survivor, not someone who’s body has been through the wringer like him.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee America – this is getting really serious. John McCain continues to demonstrate his profound lack of judgement, poor understanding of today’s world and inability to control his team. You can argue all you want about Obama’s experience – but what we need is someone that has the discipline to create the kind of campaign and convention we just saw, and the ability to motivate people to move for him so that we can get something done. Not a war hero on his last leg.
Excellent. I have been wondering why the reps (the people not the campaigners and pundits) are so quick to dismiss the pregnancy, the crazy “task given by god” statement, and the vetting process.
Pregnancy of her 17 year old daughter just proves the family planning point. It doesn’t prove “her strength to stick to her beliefs”.
“The Iraq war is a task given by God”, means that she believes it is OK to wage war in the name of God. Yet it is not OK for the Terrorists to do the same? Whether she believes in their principles, if she claims the right that gives them the right as well.
But mostly, it’s the vetting process. WOW. Seriously, what does this tell you about McCain’s decision making ability? They didn’t think troopergate would be an issue? They didn’t know her daughter was pregnant, unmarried, and underage? It is concerning when a candidate says flat out, they didn’t know these things. Are people letting it slide because they want their horse to win, and they didn’t want to be caught betting on a lame horse?
Loved your post about the Task Give By God as well NBs… this is some REALLY scary shit. The whole “Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” thing is certainly lost here… and perhaps we’re not even talking about simple ethnic cleansing or religious purity like the Third Reich… we’re looking at a religious war and structure akin to the crusades and the Holy Inquisition.
I’ve never opened the thought of becoming of expat as much as I have lately, and moving to a country that the US doesn’t like but has no issue with (or more correctly, has no oil).
Like the Bahamas.