What If?

7 Responses to “Sarah Palin”

1. Mike
   August 29th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

   I think she is a well thought out, intelligent choice for VP. Everything I read about her before her nomination painted a very positive picture of her rise in politics.

   I mean really, going up against an incumbent Republican governor AND winning? AS a Republican? That shows some fortitude.

   Then, the cleaning house of long standing corrupt senators? Amazing.

   Its too bad really, that once she was nominated, the Obama supporters started from the first second with the mud slinging and the insults and the negativity.

   As someone in my office explained, that just shows how scared they are of her.

   And to be honest, I’d vote for her for President before I;d vote for Obama, McCain OR biden.

2. Jeremy
   August 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

   We’ll hear a lot about Pallin for the next 60 or so days and then nothing at all ever again. If Obama’s lack of experience really threatens you, why would an inexperienced governor from Alaska being only a tragedy away from the presidency be any better.

   Obama is for “real” change, McCain is for the same old same old.

3. Jim
   September 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 am

   I keep hearing how Obama is for “real” change, yet I do not hear anyone who is really able to provide an adequate definition of what “real” change consists of. He talked about a bipartisan Washington, yet sports one of the most partisan voting records in Washington during his short career. He talks about making the tough decisions, yet has a record of voting present on the really tough votes. He has no record of legislative achievement, refuses to be interviewed by Fox, or any other reporter he fears will ask him tough, specific questions. He accepted the Clinton’s invitation to the national stage, then denigrated his benefactor in the primaries. Sounds like just another partisan democrat to me.

   McCain on the other hand, has a history of parting company with the republican leadership, and administrations. To often for my liking, but he is what he says he is in that regard. He talks about the need to change Washington, and his selection of Palin is certainly a change from what was expected.

   In my opinion, if change is truly what one is expecting, then McCain is what I see as the agent of change. Obama will be just another partisan democrat, whose only chance for success is a 60 democratic seat senate, IF his record is any indication. If his record is NOT an indication of what to expect, then he needs to articulate how his administration would be different. So far he hasn’t done that. Unfortunately, I personally don’t believe that most Americans care all that much. Most Amercians seem to simply follow the leader of whatever party they happen to belong to.

4. Finn Oconnor
   September 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm

   Hi Dale,

   I am not going to take the time to tell you why or how I disagree with your statements. But I do want to correct you on one misconception. Information on Wikipedia is not always accurate or bipartisen.

   Wikipedia information is supplied normally by the person it is about. So it can be as slanted or one sided at possible. And if the person who Wikipedia is about complains about anything negatively written by anyone else they can have it most times removed.

   Contact Wikipedia yourself and ask for yourself.

   Wikipedia in the farthest thing from accuracy and is just a one sided as every speech made by any politician.

5. Dale Hannah
   September 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm

   Finn, I agree on wiki as not too reliable, however it did help get the discussion started. At this point in the campaign, I don’t believe much if any of what I hear from any source.

   If we never bring any new blood into the races we will be forever stuck with egotistical wannabes, washed up old men, and few decent pols like Joe Biden. If the Dem team was reversed, I might even have to consider going that route, but as with Palin, there are too many questions about Obama still to be answered. Star power alone just isn’t going to cut it. The country is too messed up to trust it to a person who lacks any kind of real leadership. Besides Palin is only running for VP. the possibilities of anything happening to McCain are always there, but so could something happen to BO.

   Thanks for commenting, hope to see more from you.

6. Jim
   September 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 am

   Dale, you had me until the comment about a few decent pols and cited Joe Biden as an example. Joe is an American embarrassment, and has been for years. He is greatly loved by the media because of a willingness to come on national TV at the drop of a hat, and oppose any administrative position, republican or democrat.

   Obama must have been listening to his media advisers when he selected Biden, because he has been nothing but an embarrassment since his selection, whether telling a cripple in a wheelchair to stand up, flipping on the AIG bailout to the point he had to be overruled by Obama himself, to not knowing who the president was he was referring to when talking about the start of the great depression (it wasn’t FDR), to his less than stellar performance with perky Katie Couric on CBS yesterday. If a democrat can’t come across as credible on CBS, he might as well pack it in. Katie led him every step of the way and he still came off as a buffoon. You can be assured that if given the opportunity old Katie would not have interviewed Sara Palin with the same degree of concern for the negative impression being made.

   In my opinion one of the biggest reasons to give Obama a poor grade on judgment is his selection of Biden, and his willingness to let the media make the decision for him.

   I am not a fan of McCain. I have met him, and know him through his being a senate cochair of the congressional fire caucus. But comparing his VP selection to Obama’s, has convinced me that he has much better ability to judge talent.

7. Dale Hannah
   September 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm

   Jim–I am registered as a republican, my wife as a democrat, but we are actually independent voters. I would not vote for Obama under any condition, but I have not researched Biden at all, so all I know is hearsay. When I say I would have to consider him, that would also mean doing a lot of heavy research. I do believe he would be better than Obama.

   I wish I had seen the Couric interview, but I see no sense in watching the mainstream media promoting their agenda at the expense of fair and equal reporting. The don’t even try to mask what they’re doing any longer.

   My first choice is still McCain/Palin.