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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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.