What Experience Does Palin have that Qualifies her for VP? What About McCain?

Question

Sarah Palin was a mayor of a town with a population of 7000 and then governor of Alaska, a state that has few minorities and a population of only 700,000. And she was only governor of Alaska for a year and a half.

John McCain has been in the US Senate for 26 years, and has little to show for it. Yes, McCain was in the Navy, but that doesn't necessarily qualify one to be President. I honor his service, but don't see the connection.

What Foreign Policy Experience do Palin and McCain have?

What pieces of legislation did John McCain sponsor?

What has he done in the Senate for the last 26 years?

What qualifies John McCain to be President?

Are we really going to elect an inexperienced politician like Palin within a heartbeat of the Presidency?

What qualifies Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency?

Answer 1

They are not qualified and neither are Obama and Biden.

Answer 2

I agree.  But the Republicans are and continue to be  very successful, in their private pledges of "keep 'em poor, keep 'em uneducated, keep 'em confused, and just tell lies, lies, lies, until that is all the people remember."

McC is a joke, as far as I can tell, and just not in touch with reality.

I truly try to make sense of what he says, and all I hear is a dottering old man of 72.   Sarah even admitted on tape several months ago, "Ya know"  I have no idea what the vice president even does."

I'd think it truly a joke if I didn't read that the polls actually show the candidates as even!!!!!  How successful the Republicans are, aren't they?  

Amazing just how ignorant they have kept the Americans for now 30 years.... this is the finishing of two 8 term Republicans who have enriched the rich, made the middle class about non existent, and eroded public education to the point no one goes into it.. the pay is too little.  Kids are now on the streets at 1:30 because the schools are broke.  And so the kids qualify for no job beyond McDonalds, have more children, who as well, don't qualify.  So the wealthy hire these kids for nothing in payment... forever poor, generation, after generation... "Keep 'em poor".  The dictator in Zimbabwe has used the same tactic..... .  

Answer 3

we dont need another bush like guy in the office such as mcchain what will he do when bush is gone

Answer 4

The R behind their name is qualification enough for the conservatives. Is there anything Republicans will not tolerate from their party?

The Palin selection demonstrates once again the dirty secret of American politics: that semi-fascistic forces exercise near-veto power over the Republican Party. The New York Times reported Sunday, based on interviews with several top McCain aides, that McCain had all but decided to select Senator Joseph Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 2000, to run with him on a cross-party ticket based on all-out support for the war in Iraq.

Top aides told him—reportedly relaying warnings from several influential state party chairmen—that there would be protests on the floor of the convention if he selected a running mate who supports abortion rights, like Lieberman or former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge (a Republican).

McCain made the decision after his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, chose Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware as his running mate August 23, passing over Hillary Clinton. The next day, McCain called Palin and invited her to meet at his Arizona estate on Thursday, where he offered her the second spot on the Republican ticket.

There is a strong element of recklessness and irresponsibility in McCain’s selection. He selected not only someone without any significant national or international experience, but someone whom he does not himself know and who is virtually unknown to the American public.

McCain had precisely one discussion with Palin this year, for 15 minutes at a conference in Washington last February, before calling her last week. His encounter with her Thursday, when he offered her the second highest position in the American government, amounted to two hours. Press accounts noted that their initial campaign bus trip—a six-hour swing from Dayton through Columbus to the outskirts of Pittsburgh—more than doubled the total time they had spent together.

With barely a year and a half in office as the governor of the country’s least populous state, Palin had been generally ruled out as a potential nominee. She herself told the Washington Post earlier this year that her selection was an “impossibility.”

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush

Answer 5

Her pregnant 17-year old.