McCain VP Pick (Updated with Video)

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1. John K says:

   May 29, 2008 at 10:06 pm

   McCain picks former Reagan official to head VP search,
   http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mccain-selects-former-reagan-official-to-head-vp-search-2008-05-23.html

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2. Ted says:

   June 7, 2008 at 1:22 am

   Q&A How can McCain SIMULTANEOUSLY attract both Hillary AND Bob Barr voters? Answer: PALIN Veep!

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3. Kristofer says:

   June 10, 2008 at 11:31 pm

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXfiOSCfY44

   Palin Video

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4. WorldCitizen says:

   August 29, 2008 at 12:34 pm

   McCain’s choice of Palin is extremely unfortunate. The challenges facing western countries today are enormously complex. Candidates for President and VP must be experienced, sophisticated and worldly thinkers. I don’t see how Gov. Palin meets these requirements. Although she may be a capable state leader, her selection reeks of voter pandering on the part of McCain – ‘choose someone who will bring in a certain demographic vote’, rather than someone capable of leading the USA should McCain become incapacitated. Shame on McCain and shame on her for accepting; she should recognize that she doesn’t yet have the game to be in such a position. I’d have much more respect for her had she said ‘thanks but I’m not ready’.

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5. JKIR says:

   August 29, 2008 at 2:02 pm

   I’m not worried about her foreign experience. Obama has little. She appears to be very, very smart and a quick study. If this is pandering, well then, pander away, McCain!

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6. Sage says:

   August 30, 2008 at 1:47 am

   Palin is an EXCELLENT CHOICE for Vice President of the United States.
   Those who know nothing about her would be the liberals who rely on network television to provide them with biased information that they take to be gospel truth. Tisk Tisk Tisk.

   Repulican Vice Presidential Presumptious Nominee, Gov Palin has experience in elected offices of City Councilman, Mayor, and Governor,

   Her spouse, Todd, is Eskimo and together Gov Palin and her husband have taken to the sea to fish for Todd’s Eskimo Tribal Corporation. The fishing laws are a bit strained just off shore where

   Gov Palin has also served on the Non-renewable Resources Department. She was responsible for the management of Alaska’s vast oil and natural gas reserves.

   Palin is against pork barrel spending and earmarked bills. As Governor she was able to squash the US Congress Funded “Bridge to Nowhere.”

   Governor Palin has trimmed the Alaskan budget, including cutting her own salary and releasing the household staff at the Governors Home – she and her children take care of the housecleaning.

   She has successfully gone toe-to-toe against corrupt politicians, major oil companies, and more.

   Governor Sarah Palin is a lifemember of the National Rifle Association, she is Pro-Life and Pro-America. She is knowledgable in implementation of alternative energy practices. AND MORE.

   Over the past 2 years there have been several documentaries televised about her political career, and her family life.

   THat you have not heard of her…. that would be your first clue that it is time for you to step into 2008, avail yourself to the vast resources in Libraries and on the Internet. Stop thinking of network news as gospel, and remember “parroting” is only cute from a parrot – and even then in moderation.

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7. TruePatriot says:

   August 30, 2008 at 2:45 pm

   Who cares about McCain’s VP pick when people can’t even support McCain himself? the author above expresses dislike for McCain, but doesn’t say why. If actions speak louder than words (or lofty speeches), let’s take a closer look at the Real McCains:

   Like Bush’s popularity because of 9-11, and chance rather than merit, John McCain’s constant reliance on his POW background to gain political power is a mistake for many reasons. But what people may not know is McCain’s flip-flop in regard to torture was a bigger mistake.

   “In all the discussion of John McCain’s recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

   According to the Bush administration’s definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.”
   http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html

   JOHN MCCAIN this week had a choice between his principles and propping up a failed president. He chose the latter – McCain drops the torture ball -http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/16/mccain_drops_the_torture_ball/

   And what of McCain’s first wife Carol? Many don’t know the history of “The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind” His infidelities put strain on his first marriage, and he was divorced from Carol McCain, his wife of 15 years, in 1980. He married Cindy a month later.

   Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.’

   Ross Perot: ‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said. ‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’ -
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

   And we continue with the rest of the history. John McCain is no more moral than John Edwards, and Cindy makes a $300 hair cut look like nothing. Who is Cindy McCain? Aside from their 7, or is it 11 properties, Cindy is known to spend as much as $7,000 in one month on just one American Express card. So they are rich, out-of-touch Republicans. What’s new? The real story of interest goes a little farther back.

   “In 1989, following two back surgeries, Cindy McCain became addicted to the painkillers Vicodin and Percocet. To keep up with her daily need of 10 to 15 pills, she used other people’s names for prescriptions and stole drugs from the American Voluntary Medical Team, a mobile surgical unit she’d begun in 1988 to provide emergency medical services around the world. A 1993 DEA audit of the amount of painkillers her charity had obtained quickly uncovered her thefts.” -
   http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/cindy.asp

   Her addiction isn’t the big story, but rather how John McCain tried to cover-up the illegal activity with his political power. And if that’s not enough skeletons in the closet to worry about, in trying to link Obama with Rezko, McCain has re-opened the door to yet another scandal in his past.

   “The problem with this attack? Aside from being thoroughly misleading — Obama has not been seriously alleged to have done anything unethical in his interactions with Rezko — this ad is a serious strategic blunder by the McCain campaign. Why? It blows wide open the door to talk about McCain’s all-too-close relationship with Charles Keating and well reported on though somewhat forgotten charter membership in the so-called “Keating Five.”

   …In the end, the crash of Keating’s savings and loan — which had been shielded by some of his best friends in the United States Senate — cost billions to the American taxpayer, as mentioned above, and all told the federal government ended up on the hook for close to $125 billion in the fallout of the crisis that befell the underregulated industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

   Does McCain really want to have to talk about all of this? About the Bahaman vacations he took paid for by Keating? Probably not. But he may soon have to as a result of the shortsightedness of his campaign advisors. Nice move team McCain!” -
   http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/8/21/185928/267

   Conservatives claim morals (e.g., infidelity) are just as important as committing a crime (e.g., perjury–no, I’m referring to Scooter Libby). But once again we see the hypocrisy as Republicans choose another candidate with questionable character.

   The way a candidate manages his/her campaign is a first indication of how they’ll run the country. McCain has been all over the place with promises and positions, and rather than take the high road, he quickly reverted to the Rovian tactics that were used against him in 2000. He can’t get people to a rally or the convention, and if it wasn’t for the RNC and Big Business, he wouldn’t have any funds either. It also is said that the VP pick is the first example of presidential judgment for a candidate. McCain’s selection of a woman is only historical for the Republican Party. All this does is remind people how backward the RNC is. But was this the best decision McCain could have made?

   A most disturbing thing about John Edward’s recent behavior was that he was unfaithful while his wife was fighting breast cancer. Conservatives, including right-wing women, have always hated Hillary because she wanted to pursue a career in law rather than serve “tea and cookies.” Here we have Sarah Palin, who is praised for being a mother of five, including a baby with Down Syndrome. Where are those fundamentalists now when this woman is choosing to pursue fame and fortune instead of putting “family values” first?

   Moose meat versus arugula is the least of our worries. She is anti-science. She does not believe in evolution, or climate change, or development of natural gas and other clean fuels, and most of all she does not believe in women’s rights. There is a reason the prior presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham is not, and probably never will run for President — the Terri Schiavo intervention. That’s when Americans woke up to the fact that religious radicals had taken over the Republican Party. Palin would shake things up all right, she’d help take this country back to the Dark Ages (you know, when McCain was born), with anti-intellectualism, invasion of privacy and lack of respect for individual rights, and attacks on the constitution.

   And let’s not forget why we’ve had to endure the tyranny of Cheney all these years. Cheney made it clear he had no intention of running for POTUS. This automatically made him unaccountable. If McCain intends to serve for only one term, or if Palin is just a temporary gimmick for the upcoming 2008 election (I doubt the RNC will want her to be the frontrunner in the future), we would be in for more of the same.

   But most of all, after eight miserable years of Bush/Cheney, our country wants to move forward, not backward. It has been my hope that this time Americans would place the bar a little higher in regard to qualifications for the most important jobs in our country, and in the world. Like Bush with his C-grade average and business failures, neither McCain nor Palin have very impressive credentials from education to career achievements outside politics. If experience is what counts, where is it? The Bush administration has been copying Obama’s foreign policy positions for a reason. This duo makes Obama look like John Adams.

   In the meantime “my friends,” not only has McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time, let’s not forget that McCain is to the right of Bush in regard to war-mongering. We’ll have to get out the old bumper stickers: “Four More Wars!” and “Drop McCain Not Bombs”

   So go ahead Republicans, tow the Party line like you always do. Hold your nose and vote for McCain/Palin (or should we say vote against Obama), even though it’s not in your best interest or putting our country first.

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8. Ron says:

   August 30, 2008 at 7:02 pm

   Wow, I wonder how many people will read that entire diatribe? I certainly didn’t. Gotta love the self moniker, TruePatriot too!

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9. Jenn Sierra says:

   August 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm

   No, Ron, I stopped reading when TP tried to make a comparison between McCain being beaten, starved, and broken (physically, mentally, spiritually) in a communist POW camp for several years, even though he had the option to leave…to a few frat-style pranks played by some irresponsible guards on known terrorists. Riiiiight, that’s EXACTLY the same. /sarc

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