by Charles Dean » Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:28 am
Say what you will about Palin and her "experience", but as an Obama supporter I'm thrilled with the choice of her.
She's a pure pandering move to women and conservatives. Many of the women I know, both liberal and conservative feel this way.
Her experience as much as Republicans would like to say is better than Obama's, is laughable. Here's someone who didn't even know what the Vice President's job was a month ago.
Which it should be brought up, besides being there in case the Prez keels over, is to preside over the senate. Does her executive experience help her prepare for that?
Now that it has been shown that the pregnancy scandal is not true, I think it seriously calls into question her judgment. The fact that her water broke and she still insisted on staying to give a speech when she was 1 month premature with a down syndrome child? I have a really hard time believing that her doctor told her to get on the plane, much less allowed her to stick around for 8-10 hours and give a speech before coming home. If she'd told the airline that her water had broken, they would not have allowed her on the plane. Seems to me that she felt giving a speech was more important than the health of her child.
The trooper issue will dog her the whole election and the fact that McCain barely vetted her at all and never even had a conversation or interview with her about being VP I think seriously calls his judgment into question.
So, it was a poor choice and I'm pretty happy with it.