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Not up to the job : Comments

By Brendon O'Connor, published 7/10/2008

With her patent lack of a working knowledge of foreign affairs, Sarah Palin would be a liability not just to America, but to the world.

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Who are these 'elite'? Washington has been under Republican influence for eight years and McCain must be considered one of them. He's been in the senate a generation and he's not 'elite'?

The GOP has created this narrative about elites (damn progresive libruls) and non-elites (people-who-vote-for-Bush). The coalition in Australia got similar mileage out of the concept, which is odd considering they did not represent the working class. Seems you're tying that tag to anyone not republican.

The failure of the banking system is partly due to the deregulation promoted by the GOP. The democrats typically want more wealth to be distributed further down the food chain. It never did trickle down, did it? The wealthiest have become more wealthy under the republicans.

Having volunteered considerable time - pro bono - to social issues does not Obama demonstrate honour and integrity? When's the last time Palin or McCain did this?

No, Palin would serve her country best by staying where she is and answering charges of cronyism, like she promised to do.
Posted by bennie, Sunday, 12 October 2008 7:46:08 AM
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I believe Sarah Palin is 'up to the job'. Others disagree. So be it.

I've had my say on this matter. I'm done with the back-and-forth. Thanks for the lively discussions. We'll not be changing each other's personal opinions.

May the American people choose wisely in November.
Posted by Daisym, Sunday, 12 October 2008 3:36:20 PM
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Oh c'mon, is no-one prepared to stick up for Palin? Is there no-one with sincerely held beliefs that contradict all known tangible evidence?

It's a bit like debating a creationist. Like Sarah!
Posted by bennie, Monday, 13 October 2008 8:41:17 AM
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From today's news...

"Shouts of "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar," and even "off with his head" have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them."

I read on a forum an entry from a teacher in the states, who recalled a comment from a student - "my parents won't vote for Obama because he's gonna be assassinated anyway..."

And Palin encourages this stuff? Oh well, it's a small price to pay.

""It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," a top McCain strategist recently admitted to the Daily News. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."
Posted by bennie, Monday, 13 October 2008 9:27:06 AM
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Bennie

It is no joke, I am really frightened that the first decent prospect for president in years, will be murdered as a result of the reprehensible campaign being waged by Palin.

"...Now even laughing at Palin won't be enough of an anti-depressant because millions of our fellow citizens actually think she is ready to be president. Wow -- a person who just two months ago most of us had never heard of and who has now been dressed up and sold to the American public by the likes of Karl Rove. Forget the fictional Fox show, she has been thrust into the all-time best reality show ever conceived. While providing great material for Jon Stewart, David Letterman and Tina Fey, she's serving the increasingly dangerous role of pandering to the audience at Fox News with her hate speech.

So here we are with a dire economic outlook. State governments are begging for credit from the federal treasury to pay for next week's payrolls. They are slashing the budgets to the bone in order to come to grips with dwindling tax revenue in the coming year. As this trickles down, each of our local communities only has its overstretched local tax base to pay for the services like schools, maintenance of crumbling infrastructure and picking up our garbage. It is generally the case when our national leaders fail to balance their own budgets, we all have to deal with the garbage. Really, in these times, we can do much better than a vice-presidential candidate who asserts that Barack Obama is a terrorist...."

http://www.alternet.org/election08/102369/why_it%27s_not_that_fun_to_laugh_at_sarah_palin_anymore/
Posted by Fractelle, Monday, 13 October 2008 10:06:21 AM
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Considering Biden is supposedly an EXPERT in matters of foreign affairs ...

He said >> “When we kicked ... Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, "Move NATO forces in there. Fill the vacuum, because if you don't know -- if you don't, Hezbollah will control it."

Sorry WHAT DID HE SAY? Hezbollah was kicked out of Lebanon? By the US and the French? As Greg Sheridan noted in the Australian, that WILL be news to the Lebanese.

In the same paragraph he suggested NATO troops should have been sent to Lebanon, which would, of course, have meant US troops would have to have gone in as well. Was he really suggesting the US get involved in another internal struggle in a foreign country?

Then he said >> “We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country..”

Turns out that this isn’t even close to being true.

>> “He also made it clear to viewers he had absolutely no idea what the Constitution says about the office he seeks. In stern tones, he informed Mrs. Palin that the vice president can preside over the Senate only in case of a tie vote, and that this is outlined in the Article One, which according to him concerns itself with the executive branch of government. Nope. Article One is about the legislative branch, and what a part of it says is this: "The vice president of the United States shall be president of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/bidens-gaffes-12284920/

He has also said >> “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed," he said in an interview with Katie Couric of CBS News. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "

WHAT! !! !! !!. First, Katie Couric wasn’t even born in 1929. Second, TV didn’t exist. Third Roosevelt wasn’t president in 1929. Whoops.
Posted by Paul.L, Monday, 13 October 2008 10:47:35 AM
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