I have been very amused watching the right-wing talking heads turn themselves into pretzels trying to make a case for this woman. I heard one actually say that she has more experience than Obama. I've heard others say Obama has no experience at all.
Let's get this straight: Obama has been a United States Senator for four years -- during which time he has had some notable accomplishments (see his website if you want the details), including a law to allow every citizen in America the ability to go online and see where all their taxes dollars are being spent, as well as ethics reform, expanded benefits for veterans, and alternative energy legislation. In the Illinois State Senate he helped create legislation to cut taxes and expand early childhood education, among other things. He has a Harvard law degree (vs a Bachelor's in journalism for Gov. Palin), has taught constitutional law, and I can guarantee you he has five times the knowledge of foreign affairs that Palin does. But then, he probably has five times the knowledge that McCain himself does, considering McCain still thinks there's a country called Czechoslovakia:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html
and continues to get the Sunnis and the Shiites mixed up:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/08/869803.aspx
But I digress... let's look at the two tickets. Obama is a healthy 47-year old, whose backup is THE foreign relations expert in the Senate and a man infinitely qualified to be President should something happen to him. McCain is a 72-year old with four bouts of melanoma, whose backup is a governor who's been in office for less than two years, has no foreign policy experience whatsoever, and who 20 months ago was the mayor of a town of less than 9,000 people.
Give me a break, people. This is such an obvious pander to women that it's insulting. It's also downright dangerous. If Sarah Palin had any integrity at all she would have told McCain she was in no way, shape or form qualified to be Vice President and asked him to look at other, more qualified candidates. I think both she and McCain are riding their egos for all they're worth.
