Obama/Biden '08

Yesterday's DNC convention is still fresh in my head. Barack Obama and Joe Biden looked way more presidential than McCain and his new beauty queen.

this is kinda off topic, but i was wondering if anybody saw mccains "nice" ad congratulating Obama. The reports said it would air during the speech and in key states, and i'm in ohio and i watched all the coverage on several cable channels and i didn't once see that ad air.

did anybody? or was this another one of mccain's "video press releases"?

this means hillary needs to stump harder than ever for obama.

they're trying to take her voters away. she should say its insulting to think women will vote for a woman who doesn't stand for women's rights.

For what it is worth....

The cesspools at Freeperville, Lucianne, and a number of the christo-fascist wingnut boards are going absolutely orgasmic over this. I've seen nothing like this level of enthusiasm, or just sheer number of posts, in the last few months of visiting these sewers for comic relief.

Many are indicating that - although only predisposed to voting for McBush as the lesser of two evils or not voting for him at all - they are now enthusiastically on-board and "getting their checkbooks out." They believe that this pick of Palin allows them to believe that his SCOTUS choices will be ones that conform to their troglodytic and knuckle-dragging mindset.

McPOW may just have restored his (aptly named) "base" with this tragic Barbie Bimbo.

She looks like your annoying conservative neighbor housewife who's really involved in her freakin church (and you know, hates gay people and such, and has a bunch of dirty secrets...) - I say your neighbor, cuz of course, where I live...

One heartbeat away.

Geraldine Ferraro ran for Veep a long time ago. There is nothing glass shattering about this pick of Dan Quayle of the north. The Republicans are still more than 25 years behind the Democrats in having a woman run on the big ticket. Instead of picking someone accomplished, with stature (statuesque is not the same thing), they picked another lightweight, in the vein of Dan Quayle, who wouldn't overshadow McCain. Now he has a trophy wife and a trophy running mate. What does that say?

They should have had one release and it basically should have combined the message in the first in the second. This would have been better:

"We send our congratulations to Governor Sarah Palin and her family on her designation as the republican nominee for Vice President. Like Geraldine Ferraro's vice presidential run in 1984 and Hillary Clinton's campaign this year, it is yet another encouraging sign that old barriers are falling in our politics. However, with this pick, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same."

I think that Palin's choice was great! They are not going to let her anywhere NEAR the controls of anything in the actual day to day governing!She will have NO idea if they are letting her or not, either.

my friend who can't post says this:

i honestly believe that he has just won the election with this pick.

she is politically bullet proof because she's like a little white bunny with a pink nose and little blue eyes. how can you attack a little fluffy bunny and not look like a big, bad nasty politician?

the dems are probably thinking, "what a boon!", looking at all the political cherries to pluck out of the basket mccain has just handed them (her inexperience, his being 72 which makes her a heartbeat away from the presidency, etc.). howsomever, those aren't cherries, guys; those are fucking cluster bombs that will go off in your face when you touch them. mention, just mention that he's old and you're being age-ist. say that she is not prepared to lead the country and you're being sexist. the christians fucking love her! love. her.

she is the terminator. in a little fluffy bunny suit.

--i honestly believe that he has just won the election with this pick.--

Coffee just shot out of my nose!! ROFLMAO!!!

What cruelty McCain has performed on a nice enough, pleasant woman, mother of five, 18-mo. governor by nominating her for a job she's not qualified for. It's hard to imagine that Palin is going to be able to stand up to the rigors of proving herself in 68 days as being ready to step into a position a heart beat away.

Democrats must be clear headed and not be critical of her selection or risk an emotional empathetic backlash. In time, Palin will prove herself as being wholly unqualified; she will not need any help.

Hillary dead-enders didn't want Kathleen Sebelius picked because that would have been insulting to Hillary. They didn't want anybody other than Hillary to break the glass ceiling. Nw before they might have voted McCain to give Hillary another chance in four years, they can't vote McCain now because in doing so it will make Palin the first female vice-President.

Anti-choice, corrupt and in Big Oil's pocket. 100% More of the Same!

This choice indicates an alarming lack of seriousness and an astounding amount of cynicism about the importance of the jobs for which they are seeking. Is she the next most qualified person in the Republican Party? Scary.

And if Edwards (the ass) could be condemned in some circles for campaigning while his wife battled a fatal disease; well what does it say about her that she's willing to run for VP with a 3 month old infant-Downs or no Downs?

And I agree with Amelie that it is insulting to add a woman to the ticket with views diametrically opposed to HRC's and think that's enough for us little old women. Screw 'em.

As Barack said last last, "Enough."

I believe there will an occasion for the truth to come out that McShame had some folks back out late in the process. Combine that with the Bushies pushing him that he couldn't have ridge and LIEberman for being pro-choice. In the end, he had to choose between Pawlenty, Palin or Romney who he dislikes a ton. Not much for picking a winner here. He, w/ the Bushies demanding it, went w/ a neo-con oil woman who pushes creationism and anti-abortion. To have any chance at all, he had to fire up the crazies on his base.

It was shown here in upstate NY. ???Although I'm not sure why, to be honest. He's not going to get NY or neighboring VT .... but maybe the "buy" area includes PA and/or NJ. But it was shown.

This is absolutely the right tone for Obama and Biden to set.

For now, let others point out the fact that two years ago, she was the mayor of a 7,000 person town, that she's a Krazy Kreationist, and that she's embroiled in her own scandal.

Only if McSame and Pale-imitation say one word about experience do they slap them down for their hypocrisy and treating the voters as if they were morons.

Biden, in particular, has to be very very careful in his debate that he doesn't come across as belligerent or condescending. Let her make a fool of herself on her own, let him show his obvious superiority through his own command of the issues.

I didn't think anything would raise the opinion of Hillary Clinton in my eyes. But Sarah Palin does the trick. And believe me it's quite a feat.

This pick is the political equivalent of a senile senior citizen doing a blind reach for his meds while he is having a stroke on his hospital bed.

Pathetic.

The way to attack Palin is to attack McCain for his poor judgment and bad choice.

McCain made the mistake, not Sarah.

she's not even qualified for a cabinet position and mcalzheimers wants her a heartbeat away from being commander in chief.

most ridiculous VP pick. EVER.

The Obama campaign needs to hammer this pick as an example of terrible judgment by McCain, not praise it as barrier-breaking - this barrier was broken by Geraldine Ferraro 24 years ago!

McCain picked someone who is totally unqualified to be a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. That should be the line here, not praise! After last night I thought Obama actually had it in him to take the fight to McCain, now I'm not so sure.

Is that a beehive hairdo! Is she an Alba fan? Fonzi?

Sure seems retro. Fits though.

The perfect way to respond to the pick of Palin at this time, in my opinion. Since Palin is not a unanimous choice of the Republicans, we should stand on the sideline for a few days and let them fight it out amongst themselves. Let them expose their weaknesses before attacking. There will be a lot of anger and animosities simmering under the surface with this pick by McCain. No need to interfere at this time...