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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Sarah Palin
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.
WARNING-YOU'RE BEING GUPPIED
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.
What a laugher
Edie (she who follows troop trains with a mattress on her back) gets snarky because someone dares question the acumen of the man who gave "The Sermon on Bronco Field".....lmao at these Libs....
Wow! Zut! Fire!
Stop the presses! A poster in Kansas City has declared Sarah Palin to be more qualified to be President than Barack Obama! Another poster has declared Joe Biden a buffoon!
Dammit, foiled again, they've seen through our game! Take down the bunting! The election's over!
It's Sunday night, people. Isn't there something on TV?
Palin's "Inexperience"
Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama, never mind Vice President. Her apprenticeship under McCain will make her a shoe-in to defeat Hillary in 2016.
Biden the buffoon?
Is Joe Biden, one of the biggest buffoons in the U.S. Senate qualified to be president? Not in my opinion. Hell, Obama isn't qualified. He's a dolt with a silver tongue.
And... (II)
I'm a liberal, thus your intellectual and moral superior. What's your point?
Fair and Balanced
Today's fox news award for fair and balanced editorializing goes to Yael T. Abouhalkah. Instead of reporting how many times the mainstream media have called Gov. Palin a "maverick" echoing the right wing line or the fact that she wanted the bridges to nowhwere (not reported) before she said thanks but no thanks (reported), or that her "toughness" with the oil industry was to raise their taxes (like Obama proposes & the GOP jeers him for), or the ABC news report that Palin's "closeness" to the oil industry may come in handy when dealing with future energy issues, Yael has exposed the "liberal mainstream media" editorials which question her experience. Great work, Yael, surely no one but a liberal could be skeptical of such a choice.
Palin Qualifications
Sarah Palin at this very moment is hard at work being briefed on all that is necessary to be vice president and even president, if need be. She is with her children watching their Schoolhouse Rock videos of "No More Kings," "Three-Ring Government," and, especially, "I'm Just A Bill."
"Qualifications"
Sarah Palin can read a prepared script with dynamic intensity and invoke the name of God with all the fervor of a evangelic preacher. Therefore, she is well qualified to serve as the Vice President or, as is more than likely, the President of the United States of America. Those who have been clamoring for a quasi-theocracy should be well pleased with this selection.
Wrong, lsnrchrd
Yael is building revenue by being "provocative," knowing full well that the Star makes money off clicks. Who did that bit on TV, the call-in talk show with no calls? The host can't get anybody to respond, and ends up shrieking, "I think we should hire child molesters to teach kindergarten, and anybody who disagrees is a Communist," and similar. Finally somebody calls in to order a pizza.
No site traffic, no site.
'liberal' media comments
Objective,fair, and accurate evaluation? Only if it agrees with the opinion of Yael. Anything else is obviously biased, baseless, and not worth any effort at rational argument. A trite, blithe dismissal, and away we go down a meaningless 'feelings' meander.
Speaking of trolls
The idiot who has yet to offer a substantive argument is back. Lesbo sites shut down today, Edith?
Oh, knock it off
Quit being a troll. Those could just as easily be characterized as conservative opinions outraged over McCain's losing the election two months early. You really ARE a jerk, aren't you?