McCain picks Palin: AP

Unbelievable!! I hope he doesn't' live to regret this. Nothing against her but NO ONE KNOWS HER!!! I'm sure she is a great person, but NO ONE KNOWS HER!!!!

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He should have just run without a running mate and had a raffle the on Jan. 19th to pick a VP. Picking someone with no federal experience to run the Senate just doesn't add up to me.

On another hand she is hot.

Great pick by Johnny Mac!

MCCAIN PALIN 2008

The list of Republican Senators and Congressmen that are not showing up at the Republican convention is longer than the one's that will. All of the one's running for reelection are trying to distance themselves from Bush/McCain and are not attending. I think it's just what it came down to.

I like the pick. She is not a D.C. lobbyist wh**re, she has gone against big oil several times and she truly is the definition of change. I like Biden too, but all his skeletons will be on display over the next few months. He is an absolute liar, has been caught, and I thought we were looking for change.
Her lack of federal experience puts her roughly 6 months behind Obama.

Come on, Doc. I'm no Obamaniac (especially where his level of experience is concerned) but just living in a major metro like Chicago let alone representing it would foster a better understanding of the complexities of government (be it local, state or fed) when compared to being mayor of Grundel, Alaska or governor of the state for a relatively brief while. She may well be a fine woman but there isn't a comparison with respect to experience. She did do a good thing with the whole bridge fiasco but even that seems like a no-brainer.

Also, if she were a DC lobbyist McCain would have already been having an affair with her like the one that got swept under the rug a few months ago...you can't s*** where you eat.

She's owned by BIG OIL. They paid for election victory in Alaska. She's as bad as Dick Cheney when it comes to our energy needs. All the more reason to vote for Obama.

Before her 18 months as governor of a state with a smaller population than some neighborhoods in this country she was mayor of a town with 8000 people.

McCain is 72 years old. He could drop dead straining to take a dump and she would be the one to step in to be commander and chief.

Bottom line, out of the 10's of millions of Republicans in this country, she is the best McCain could come up with.

The complexities of government entail keeping the hidden socialistic norms under the rug in america. The richest stay rich, the poorest get pandered to, and the families making 100k-300k pay for everything and get nothing.
I like that fact that she is a relative unknown and has no experience in the dealing of US government.
So when that first bill goes to vote in the senate and all the silver spoon senators vote on it, maybe she'll ask why there are two addendums for oil company tax breaks written in by Ted Kennedy, and a tax break for placing employees in India written by senator DeWine.
Everyone wants change, well this is the biggest change I have seen offered thus far.
All the experience in the world governing large populations only teaches these politicians how to keep their pockets fat while telling the ignorant how bad it is or how much they will accomplish for you.
But keep voting as you do and tell me how much better things are in the future.

Also
Affairs are a prerequisite for being a politician these days aren't they?

I think it is McCain's way of getitng back at Obama for not having Hilary as his VP. never heard of her until today,hmm makes you wonder why?

It is amazing maybe if you haven't heard about her try Google or Wikipedia, She is a new fresh face and very non Washington. Her experience and what she has done equals what BHO has done at least she applied herself as a Governor and did not jump into running for president. No big church with some racist pastors, no move on people. Want first hand knowledge of a person who told your big oil that they can pay more as Alaska's oil and gas was making millions. If you lived their you would be getting around 1200 dollars very soon. Not even like the windfall obama is proposing his is going straight into government. Save the bears and antelope? Shoot them in her book NRA member hunter fishing she does it and is a black belt. At least if you hunting with her you won't get shot. She and her husband ran a commercial fishing company her is a steel worker works on the north slope in Alaska on oil rigs. So i think between those two: guns, religion and blue collar enough for me.

The biggest thing is she is number 2 on the ticket She is Joe Biden on obama. Biden with his 32 years in the senate seems like the same old Washington to me. Delaware in size to Alaska don't go there. And she is in charge of Alaska. Both have sons in military.

If you think health care is why you want to vote for obama get ready. he can not give you health care he will how ever tax you then tell you your getting it. So lets talk taxes Carter and my hero Bill Clinton. Carter one of the highest taxing presidents we have ever had. The reason ever one ran him out. Bill raised taxes to do things he did. obama is headed down the same trail and will most likely take about 24-32 percent pushing 32% if you want health care so think real hard before you go that way.

Nixon didn't he visit Dallas right before Kennedy was killed? said we are pulling out then dropped a lot of bombs and he was a insecure little man hence Watergate. Regan well bonzo describes him and the billions spent in the cold war well Russia moved back into Georgia. 1st bush CIA 2nd Bush KID. McCain ran against him they are not that close in policy but McCain is a firm believer in supporting America leader. If Bush new the words VETO, NATO, BOMB YOU LIKE MY DADDY DID! Plus, 9/11, war, Katrina, more war, Gustaf.

I will vote for my first republican ever, this will include family members. obama can deliver a speech and if you follow politics the initials GS, he is some one you do not want near a American president and obama is in his wallet so i will stick to religion and my guns.

When I think of the choosing of Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency of the United States of America, I still seem to think that this is a joke from John McCain. He is soon going to appear on the Jay Leno Show and announce that is is just a gag. It is just John McCain being humorous.

John McCain has put the security of a nation and the well being of the world at risk in order to try to win an election.
It is tragic to abandon a political party because of one self-centered irresponsible decision. But no American that loves this country will vote to make Sarah Palin the Vice President of the United States.
Never in my life have I felt so disgusted by a political choice.

I've got to agree with Helen. This has to be a joke! Of course finding a woman in the Republican party who IS qualified to be president (or VP) is nearly impossible since it is mainly white males who make up the party.

But, I'm amazed that Republicans aren't outraged at this pick. She certainly doesn't have the education (U of Idaho) work experience (sportscaster) and political experience (2 years as Gov) that should be required of someone this close to the presidency.

Another poster above tried to compare Alaska and Delaware and said "don't go there". Sorry to burst your bubble but Delaware is much more populous than Alaska so you are correct "don't go there"! But knowing such things would require actually checking the facts and that might take a minute or two.

Republicans must be having a hard time holding back the laughs at Palin as the VP pick. She's only there to try and get the Hillary voters not because she's qualified.

McCain has been in Washington since the Dead Sea was sick. Since he likes to brag about his ability to reach across the isle he has worked with thousands of Republicans and Democrates alike. After working with all of these officials the most qualified pick he could come up with is the Governor for 18 months of a state with less than 630,000 people that he first met only 6 months ago.

Gov. Palin might be a fine person but most Americans live in urban areas that present their own special problems that she has no reference to. She also admits to no foreign policy experience.

It is obvious that McCain picked her to get the "Clinton woman's vote". 18 million women didn't vote for Clinton. 18 million voters voted for her. That includes men. I don't believe the women that did vote for Clinton did so because they have the same body parts. They voted for her because of her views on the issues, which the last time I checked were the same as Obamas.

McCain picked Palin to appease women but insulted them instead.

VP choices typically don't swing presidential elections. As to John McCain being 72 and she is just a heartbeat away, we are all only a heart beat away. Here is something really spookey, no matter who wins, is something would to happen to either the Pres or VP as is currently the situation we would have Nacny P as president! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! ! !

ummmmmmmm. . . . . How ill informed most of you are. Palin has 10, count them, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, years more experience than Obama bin Laden,the democrap canidate who has links to William Ayers a domestic terrorist.

you say we are ill informed blkpride? You believe everything in McCain's ads on tv. Did you do research to know Obama has links with Ayers? 10 years of experience? Really? Amazing.

blkpride.... I'm utterly confused, you aren't for Obama and yet you support Mayor Williams? Somebody must have stolen your keyboard today!

mimi what does one have to do with the other? You must be one of those blind party dems.

MCCAIN PALIN 2008

OBAMA BIDEN 2008 for a BETTER U.S.A!!!!!

Some times i think I am read a leftist blog "WOW" flip it to around "MOM" it is cold in Alaska and with those looks we know why she has 5 kids, she knew the lastkid had downs and Chose to keep, her daughter is Keeping hers also. Sure She is Pro-Life so feminist and lot of Dem's female voters will look at that. It is a Issue and you BHO supports abortion up till a due date.

Biden brought in a little over 9000 votes before dropping out for the second time. And has been in the senate longer than McCain so maybe he was involved some how around the time of Adam and eve?

Obama biden ticket has the 2 most liberal people ever on a ticket. That alone should say something.

national security issue? Alaska has more borders and land mass than you can imagine. And who says some one won't go for the oil pipe line and the new gas line being built. It would cripple us. some times I think we are so caught up in our thinking Ohio is not the "East Coast" go live there people are different, we are not the "South" either and the world does not evolve around us. in fact we are compared the middle of NYC and Chicago.

I don't need a inner city president or vice president. And this p-diddy comments on Alaska shows the mentality of thinking Americans have handed this man millions and the best he can think of is wondering if Alaska has crime and crack? Didn't the Libs teach him you need crack in America so we can employ cops and prisons?

John Glenn (DEMOCRAT) said this ----- It should make us all think a little:

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq in January. In the fair city of Detroit there were 35 murders in the month of January. That's just one America n city, about as deadly as the entire war-torn country of Iraq.

When some claim that President Bush shouldn't have started this war, tell them the following :

FDR (DEMOCRAT) led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us; Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost ... an average of 112,500 per year.

Truman (DEMOCRAT) finished that war and started one in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost ... an average of 18,334 per year.

John F. Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson (DEMOCRAT) turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost ... an average of 5,800 per year.

Clinton (DEMOCRAT) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent. Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Suda n and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.

This one is a fact that makes me mad as hell.

In the years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran, and, North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. And the Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking.

But Wait, There's more.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno (DEMOCRAT) to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation .

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton (DEMOCRAT) to find the Rose law firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!

Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high!
The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.
But Wait ....There's more!

JOHN GLENN (on the Senate floor - January 26, 2004)

Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the armed services do what they do for a living.

This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the military.

Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
'How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real job?'

Senator Glenn (D-Ohio): 'I s erved 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard; it was my life on the line. It was not a nine-to-five job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day . .. to a veteran's hospital and look those men ... with their mangled bodies .. in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job!

You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee ... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DAD'S didn't hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery , where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags . You stand there, and you think about this nation, and you have the gall to tell ME that those people didn't have a job?
W hat about Metzenbaum? For those who don't remember During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA.

Now he's a Senator!

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.

MCCAIN PALIN 2008 FOR THE BEST USA! COUNTRY FIRST!!!!

President Bush shouldn't have started this war!!!

I agree with you there nette4u. The war over there is pointless. You can't change a country that has had the same culture for all of it's exsistance. I mean how would Americans feel if someone came into our country and force their way of life on us? War is never good. It just a power struggle for power hungry people. This war will keep going if McCain is President!
I do believe in country first! Lets stop spending 10 billion dollars a month in Iraq, and start spending it here in the USA! Lets put it into our school, since eduction it so highly reguarded and required. The government to to starting showing it be support it much more then they do!

For blkpride: You have your mind made up, and so do alot of other people. So no matter what you post on here, it is NOT going to change my mind!!!

OBAMA BIDEN 2008 The ONLY way to have the BEST FUTURE possible in the USA!

I hope not. God help us and our economy if they do get into office. I personally do not wan't to be the Soviet Republic of the United States with their EXTREME LEFT wing policies.

dmets please refer to history. I do think your party has the blood on their hands for putting this counrty into NEEDLES wars and combat. Read the above post. But I guess that you don't want to hear that.

nett: bush did not start this war he is finishing it. he brought the fight to the enemy instead of letting them attack anymore sheep like yourself. you are welcome for the protection that our country provides you.

NEEDLESS

See blkpride i don't vote a straight democratic tickets. Not at all. I don't need to look back at history. I look at the present times. I see that McCain vote with 90% of the time. He does not think there is a problem with the economy. People making 5vmillon and above are good. He doesn't care about the middle class! He is looking to get rid of it all together. He doesn't know what it means to be middle class or poor. But Obama does understand where the middle class and poor are coming from. He been there, done that. McCain has the same old veiws. Let the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer. And the middle class, doesn't seem to care about us at all.
All so how can you say Bush did not start this war? You are refering to 9/11, right? The Iraq people did not come over here and bomb us. They were a group of people from dirrerent countries. The only person they should have been after was Bin Laden! Bush went over there to start a war with a sense of revenge for his father. It was all political! He is not finishing anything cause we are still over there and will be way past him being done in office. Especially if McCain is president. They will never leave in his term either!

dmets obama's economic policies will devour the middle class! and as far as the war you have obviously have never researched the middle east other than what is shown to you on tv. is that how you do your research? it is obviously how you learned simple economics.

Obama is big oil. He did vote for a 2005 energy bill backed by President Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production. McCain opposed the bill on grounds it included unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry. Flip flop liar does not even know where he stands. Are you for or against big oil obama?!?!?!? Wow a total lying contrast than what is spewing out of his lying libral mouth now.

Big Oil? Omaba is? What do you think McCain is or better yet Palin lives in the Big Oil state. So who are you calling big oil? Wrong person wrong ticket! Omaba is the one going after the big oil companies, not McCain. Talk about flip flopping? How about McCain who said he would stay in Iraq for 100 years if he had to, and now he claims to have a plan on getting our troops out of there. Yeah tell another lie McCain!

You Dems never change. Thanks blkpride, I agree with all you said and now I am very comfortable with Palin. I was shocked the first time i heard about her, but now, I am very confident in her. Can't wait to hear her tonight. Youngstown and the Dems never cease to amaze me. Clinton never went after the terrorists after all the bombing they did. You can't imagine how pissed the Navy was after the Cole bombing. He was the biggest chicken farce of a President. OMG!!!!

OMABA (BARRACK'S COUSIN?) FAIL

"Big Oil? Omaba is? What do you think McCain is or better yet Palin lives in the Big Oil state. So who are you calling big oil? Wrong person wrong ticket! Omaba is the one going after the big oil companies, not McCain. Talk about flip flopping?"

What is a big oil state?

Tomcat: You might want to go read this, then tell me you are still comfortable with Palin.

blkpride you might want to read it too!

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrhFO......

I seem to remember Clinton sending tro