could come back to bite him. He didn't disappoint. He chose a vice president who violates his chief complaint against Obama. The issue of a very recent ad. The issue he cherry picked and parsed from Hillary Clinton's speech this week, "she didn't say he was ready to lead".

I have yet to see a Republican explain away this issue. They dodge and weave from it. The issue is now buried.

...Obam does not.

Woman, young, conservative, lifelong memebr of the NRA.

Talk about charging up the base?

A decided gamble for McCain, but one I am sure will help his ticket.

Well done, Big Mac.

You guys are backing a guy for President with the same amount of experience Sarah Palin has, but yet you have an issue with her as Vice President?

Face it - the tickets are flip-flopped, but really on the one hand you've got a neophyte for President with an old-guard DC insider for VP, and on the other hand you have an old guard DC insider for President with a newbie for VP.

Wait, what else besides the Senate does the VP lead again? I Vice President Cheney was running the show in your eyes, but that's not what it's going to be in this administration.

Attack Her on her experience, McCain shoots back she's an "outsider", the chief concern from the democrats. "You need someone new and fresh to change things in washington!" She's new, she's fresh, and the 2 years as the Governer, which is the Executive Branch a State (and a very large one in her case) already give her more experience than Obama who's just been a legislator.

again, keep with what your doing, but watch out from the haymaker your setting yourself up for.

I won't even grant you that. A year and half in office of a state of just over half a million? I don't agree.

How is the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, her longest held office, prepared to step onto the national and world stage? Answer, she isn't. He will not be able to sell it.

....143 business days as a junior Senator prepares one for the highest political office in the country?

Help me understand the difference, would you?

Same amount? While she was governing 8,400 people in Wasilla, Obama was writing and passing nuclear non-proliferation legislation, Lugar-Obama. McCain took the steam out of that charge.

Obama has 144 business days of experience in the Senate. She ran the state for 2 years.

One piece of co-authored legislation makes one qualified to lead?

All she's required to do is preside over the senate.

She does that for a year, while (if elected) President McCain and his cabinet can train her up for additional duties.

If Obama's elected, Biden will probably be like a Democrat Dick Cheney and probably run the show. How is all this change going to occur when you have a long time senator running the show?

FCS_Shwan:

Wait, what else besides the Senate does the VP lead again? I Vice President Cheney was running the show in your eyes, but that's not what it's going to be in this administration.

I have no doubt of that. McCain is a misogynist. Palin is decoration. However, she is a heartbeat from the office of the president. I have never gone in for ageist attacks on McCain, but there is something to be considered when McCain is the oldest non-incumbent candidate in history. The first four years are immensely more stressful than the second.

Attack Her on her experience, McCain shoots back she's an "outsider", the chief concern from the democrats. "You need someone new and fresh to change things in washington!" She's new, she's fresh, and the 2 years as the Governer, which is the Executive Branch a State (and a very large one in her case) already give her more experience than Obama who's just been a legislator.

What does experience have to do with being an outsider? Palin is very outside of DC, as far as one could get and still be on the same continent.

She has been governor for a year and half. Of a state with a miniscule population, with the most tenuous of connections to the lower 48. And what of her foreign policy experience? She has none.

again, keep with what your doing, but watch out from the haymaker your setting yourself up for.

In comparison to the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, indeed it does. Where is her foreign policy experience? Has she been to Iraq? McCain extensively ridiculed Obama on that count. Has she been to Afghanistan? Again, that was very important to McCain. What has her global impact been? Lugar-Obama, nuclear non-proliferation has global reach.

Do you see the difference now?

Train her up? You can't push aside the health concerns of McCain.

Obama is not Bush. Bush was a figure head from day one. Obama is not and he will be running the show.

She's run the state for a year and half.

Quality of experience. Governing a tiny town of less than 10,000 is not the same experience. Governing a state of barely more than a half million is not of the same quality of experience.

There is much more to his legislative record than that.

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