By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Think the liberal mainstream media don't like the thought of Sarah Palin becoming president? Check out the editorials blasting John McCain's choice as vice president on the GOP ticket:
The New York Times: "Governor Palin’s lack of experience, especially in national security and foreign affairs, raises immediate questions about how prepared she is to potentially succeed to the presidency. That really is the only criterion for judging a candidate for vice president."
The Los Angeles Times: "In Palin, who is just halfway through her first term as governor, McCain has found an ardent opponent of abortion rights who won't provoke the outrage from social conservatives that might have greeted a more experienced, pro-choice candidate such as former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. But what happened to his insistence that a running mate be qualified to serve as commander in chief? (The McCain campaign was reduced to pointing out that Palin is commander of Alaska's National Guard.)"
The Boston Globe: "In picking a first-term governor with no foreign-policy record, the Republican presidential candidate undermined his own central themes - experience and national security - and exposed the deep fault lines within his campaign."
The Kansas City Star "But as this newspaper noted earlier this week, the most important question in evaluating a vice-presidential pick is whether that person is prepared to step into the Oval Office. Palin, with no national political experience and only a couple years in the Alaska governor’s office, is a very tough sell for the Republicans on that score. McCain’s age — he turned 72 on Friday — doesn’t help."
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As a woman I feel completely patronized by the Republican Party who thinks they can buy my vote because Sarah Palin has borne children into this world.
As a Christian, the last time I read the Bible, Jesus was "a community organizer," and Pilot was "the mayor" of a small, backwater town.
If Ms. Palin was a man "he" would not even be considered on ANY political presidential ticket.
Sarah Palin is 'unfit for command' regardless of her gender, motherhood status, or Party affiliation.
Those of you complaining this is a "liberal" point of view: Stop insulting my intelligence AND my religion.
"That depends on how the answers are"-Wm. Penn
oneobserver, I've got a PhD in an Extraordinarily Abstruse Subject and also spent a number of years wholesaling used cars in and around Baltimore. So I'm perfectly happy and perfectly capable of responding in kind to both mouthy idiots, and professors emeriti in a dozen subjects. The choice is theirs.
edith
This is the one and only time I will waste my time responding to your 2nd grade mentality.
It's a shame you can't dialog without inserting some vulgar, unnecessary, ignorant blather.
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Yael Abouhalkah is trying to generate clicks for ad revenue. No clicks, no revenue, no site, no Yael.
Liberal Media???
Yael, are you acknowledging that the liberal media exists and including the Star as one?
Main, I reported your
Main,
I reported your childish posting about another members web site visiting. It is certainly non-adult and is not worthy of public posting.
If you wish to discuss topics politely that is fine but to make reference as you did has no place in public discourse.
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See, the Senate of the United States is the senior legislative body of the most powerful nation in the world. Wasilla, Alaska, on the other hand, is a cute little town up the inlet from Anchorage. And the State of Alaska has the same number of good folks living in it as Johnson County plus about half Wyandotte County. The executive experience you get from being mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, is things like allocating parking meters to side streets and keeping the patrol cars gassed up. Obama graduated cum laude from the most famous law school in the United States, Palin was runnerup in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest.
If I had more time I'd reduce all the words above to single syllables, but in the meantime, eat my shorts, you loathsome troll.
HuH?
Editor of Harvard Law Review? Community activist? State Senate? Less than 1 term in the US Senate? Where is the experience that comes with being in charge of something, like a City Mayor or State Governor?
I'm not a Republican. I am a true and absolute Independant. I have never voted a straight party ticket and never will. I have and will vote for the person I feel is best qualified for the position and best matches my position on major issues.
So far, I remain undecided; but I sure don't see the experience the Democrats are trying to claim.
THIS IS THE MOST FUN I'VE HAD SINCE THE HOGS ATE LITTLE BROTHER
AND NOW WE HAVE SARAH PALIN TO TAKE THE BATON FROM CLUELESS GEORGE AND LEAD THE DRIVE FOR ABSTINENCE EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS--this can't be happening, really, it can't, I've been a bad, bad boy all my life and a just God wouldn't give me this much outrageous amusement now that I near the end of my misspent life...
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Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama, never mind Vice President.
She was Miss Alaska a few years back. Then she served two terms as city councilperson of Wasilla, Alaska, two terms as mayor of the same town of less than 9,000, less than two years as governor of Alaska.
Let's compare Obama:
Editor of Harvard Law Review. Experience working organizing communities to improve living conditions in inner cities, 8 years in Illinois state Senate, 4 years in U.S. Senate.
Yep, no-brainer.
Boy, the Republicans are really looking stupid these days.