Awesome pick > Rexroad.com

Yesterday I was doing a television shoot with a Fire Captain friend of mine. He told me that Governor Sarah Palin was the obvious choice for Vice President. I said -- "Who?"

After spending a few hours learning about her I have concluded she is perfect. Stand by Joe Biden.

She has more experience as an executive than Obama and Biden combined. If Bill Clinton was prepared to be Commaner in Chief -- then she is too.

Great choice. I am looking forward to her inauguration.

Politiclast -- I will get you some good seats next to Jenn and me.

Comments

By DMGreenwald @ Friday, August 29, 2008 10:26 AM

Baffling--why take Obama's biggest liability away from him?

By Blackhawk @ Friday, August 29, 2008 2:29 PM

I'm also puzzled by the pick, and I think it was driven by demographics rather than good sense, as in "let's try to attract women who might have supported Clinton" and forget the part about being a heart beat away from the Presidency, this with a 72 year old man who has had four bouts with cancer, and appears to have a swollen temple. I liked McCain in 2000, not now. He has given up any claim he had to independence by embracing Bush's policies and ineptitude. The next President has to rebuild most of the Executive Branch, undo a lot of damage done to the Constitution, (Articles I and II, Amendments 1, 4, 6, 8 and 14), deal with a divided country, crumbling infrastructure and stumbling economy, partisan gridlock, over-extended military, regulation for banking and mortgage lenders, croonyism, war profiteering, an energy policy that will actually accomplish something, health insurance needs - and please, do something about Medicare D- outright incompetence - and that's just the domestic stuff. I don't see McCain being up to it, especially since I truly don't think he sees the same problems 80% of the American people see. Looking at Palin's resume, I don't see the depth there, either. Being a mayor does not confer executive experience, any more than being a governor does- it depends on the circumstances. In most cities the city staff have the executive experience, the mayor's job is running the council meetings, and signing documents on behalf of the city, and ceremonieal functions. George W was portrayed as having executive experience because he was governor of Texas- but apparently in Texas, the legislature does most of the executive work, and as we saw when Bush took office, he was woefully unprepared.
We have serious problems, and we need serious people to solve them. I want someone with energy, vitality, vision, and some new ideas to try, not recycled Bushisms. If anything happened to Obama, I have confidence Biden could pick up the reins. I also think it would be cool to have some children in the Whitehouse again.

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