ooby_dooby: I realize she is not running for president however, as VP she is just a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States.
How well qualified is Joe Biden, ooby_dooby?
Any past real military leadership, there? Any drive on the geo-political scene to get as force reduction agreements done? Or missile reduction agreements done? Any executive office time?
His major positions is the he supports National Health Care and voted against the Iraq war. The rest is pretty blah.
Yet he has been in the Senate longer than McCain. But we only hear from him when there is a Presidential election occurring.
Like Palin, he would only a heart beat away. Even young men die. Just not as likely or probable.
So do you want an inexpereinced President with a VP that is partiallly qualified? Or do you want a experienced President with a VP that is partially qualified?
Both Pain and Biden have partial qualifications for the VP position.
But you will never get anyone in America walking around with a sign on thier forehead.....that says....I am 100% qualified to be VP of the United States.
ttom500: I will do it for Oobie Dooby.....this threat is about Sarah Palin
Thank you.
Speaking of Sarahs mmmmm physical attributes, have you seen that photoshop pic of her with the assault rifle by the pool? too bad that wasn't her torso. I doubt she looks that good in a Bikini.
Speaking of Sarahs mmmmm physical attributes, have you seen that photoshop pic of her with the assault rifle by the pool? too bad that wasn't her torso. I doubt she looks that good in a Bikini.
The Sarah Palin pity party Everyone seems to be oozing sympathy for the fumbling vice-presidential nominee. Please. Cry me a freaking river.
By Rebecca Traister
Sept. 30, 2008 | Is this the week that Democrats and Republicans join hands -- to heap pity on poor Sarah Palin?
At the moment, all signs point to yes, as some strange bedfellows reveal that they have been feeling sorry for the vice-presidential candidate ever since she stopped speaking without the help of a teleprompter. Conservative women like Kathleen Parker and Kathryn Jean Lopez are shuddering with sympathy as they realize that the candidate who thrilled them, just weeks ago, is not in shape for the big game. They're not alone. The New Republic's Christopher Orr feels that Palin has been misused by the team that tapped her. In the New York Times, Judith Warner feels for Sarah, too! And over at the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates empathizes with intelligence and nuance, making clear that he's not expressing pity. Salon's own Glenn Greenwald watched the Katie Couric interview and "actually felt sorry for Sarah Palin." Even Amy Poehler, impersonating Katie Couric on last week's "Saturday Night Live," makes the joke that Palin's cornered-animal ineptitude makes her "increasingly adorable."
I guess I'm one cold dame, because while Palin provokes many unpleasant emotions in me, I just can't seem to summon pity, affection or remorse. Don't get me wrong, I'm just like all of the rest of you, part of the bipartisan jumble of viewers that keeps one hand poised above the mute button and the other over my eyes during Palin's disastrous interviews. Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem, Sofia Coppola acting in "The Godfather: Part III," Sarah Palin talking about Russia -- they all create the same level of eyeball-squinching discomfort.
But just because I'm human, just because I can feel, just because I did say this weekend that I "almost feel sorry for her" doesn't mean, when I consider the situation rationally, that I do. Yes, as a feminist, it sucks -- hard -- to watch a woman, no matter how much I hate her politics, unable to answer questions about her running mate during a television interview. And perhaps it's because this experience pains me so much that I feel not sympathy but biting anger. At her, at John McCain, at the misogynistic political mash that has been made of what was otherwise a groundbreaking year for women in presidential politics. In her "Poor Sarah" column, Warner writes of the wave of "self-recognition and sympathy washed over" her when she saw a photo of Palin talking to Henry Kissinger. Palin -- as "a woman fully aware that she was out of her league, scared out of her wits, hanging on for dear life" -- apparently reminded Warner of herself. Wow. Putting aside the massively depressing implication that Warner recognizes this attitude because she believes it to be somehow written into the female condition, let's consider that there are any number of women who could have been John McCain's running mate -- from Olympia Snowe to Christine Todd Whitman to Kay Bailey Hutchison to Elizabeth Dole to Condoleezza Rice -- who would not have provoked this reaction. Democrats might well have been repulsed and infuriated by these women's policy positions. But we would not have been sitting around worrying about how scared they looked.
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