Is she really the best qualified candidate for VP in the whole country? How sad is that.
By the same token is a one term Senator (who's spent half his time in office campaigning) really the best qualified choice for President? There’s no way the Democrats can attack Palin’s lack of experience without it spectacularly blowing up in their faces because the top of their ticket is so inexperienced.
I don't think people, who don't already support McCain, see him as a "respected voice on foreign policy". He's constantly mispeaking in this area and he's perceived as another bring-'em-on George W. figure, who wants keeps troops in Iraq forever.
You’re incredibly mistaken.
On the subject of Russia in particular McCain is a largely respected voice and in reality what McCain wants to do in Iraq is make sure that when troops are withdrawn the country doesn't implode and that is smart foreign policy. If you believe the US reputation has been damaged by going into Iraq that's nothing compared to the damage that'll be done if you get the withdrawal wrong.
As his Iraq war decision shows, what Obama lacks in foreign expertise he makes up for in judgment and intelligence. Plus, as you say, now he has Biden on the ticket.
Joe Biden won’t be President and any foreign policy decisions made won’t be his, his experience and knowledge aren’t being transplanted into Obama. And all the questions you have about McCain when it comes to foreign policy can be asked just as much of Biden who has made some startlingly crazy statements and decisions over the years.
Your judgment and intelligence argument take huge blows with his stance on Iraq, Iran and Russia.
I just don't see that and hopefully most Americans won't either. McCain's experience is off point and outdated. If you owned a troubled company, you'd never hire someone like McCain as a Chief Executive.
Your comments regarding McCain’s experience being ‘off point’ and ‘outdated’ are wrong, incredibly so in fact and suggests that you’re either unaware of the real problems facing the next President on foreign policy or McCain’s really strong points on foreign policy.
Uhh, and the FEDERAL charges against John Mccain and his campaign funding, do you acknowledge those as much as the ghost funding scandals I'm welcome to hear about but have yet to hear of?
If you bothered to read the entire post I wrote you'd notice that my point was, and this is a quote
The assumption that Obama (or any politician) is clean of scandal is a mistake to say the least... Again to assume anyone is free of scandal is a mistake.
Experience is a fluff word. Experienced in what? What does his experience entail? What does his resume look like? Respected voice on foreign policy? The dude doesn't even know the layout of the middle east, and would LOVE to go to war for 100 years. I could fill up this forum for days with videos of Mccain lying and contradicting himself and contradicting himself and lying about the situation over there.
And there are more videos of Obama doing exactly the same thing.
There isn’t US politician who has an especially strong iron fist grasp on the Middle East, which is why the situation over there is such a mess. The Democrats are just as clueless as the Republicans. Personally I think McCain’s stance on the Middle East is a much better and clearer than Obama’s, primarily because Obama seem to know what he wants to do.
People also need to wake up to the fact that Russia is a much bigger issue than the Middle East on foreign policy and McCain is incredibly knowledgeable and respected when it comes to handling Russia, which is why everyone (Obama and Bush included) altered their position on the Russia/Georgia situation after McCain made his statement on the conflict and was completely at odds with everyone else.
No real or clear understanding of foreign policy? So I guess he was playing Jump-Rope Around The Middle East when he made his trip over there, he must've been playing Uno or Poker with the Iraq's reconstruction management office, and he must've picked Joe Biden cuz of his striking good lucks, not his expertise in foreign affairs.
I’ve said it once already in this post but I’ll repeat it again now Biden's experience and knowledge aren’t being transplanted into Obama, he didn't name Biden his VP nominee and suddenly become an expert on foriegn policy. It should also be pointed out that visiting Iraq doesn't add up to having a clear or real understanding of foriegn policy. I've been to China once that doesn't make an expert on China and I've been to France at least ten times but I'm not an expert on them either.
Balance out? Yeah, if you squint with one eye and don't look out there other, you might see balance. Four completely different people, different ways of doing things, to call the tickets "balanced" is a 3rd grade explanation for a post-grad exam.
The two tickets balance out nicely right now and as much as it may pain Democrats to hear that it’s true.
Both tickets have long serving Senators who’s primary expertise is in the field of foreign policy and our both largely respected politicians. Both tickets also have two relative unknowns who have yet to complete a full term in their current jobs and both of whom have stood on the platform of changing the political system they’re entering into and cleaning that system up, both also happen to be very young in terms of politics. It takes a special kind of denial not to see how balanced out the tickets are.
