http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611.html

Really good question.

I think once the McCain-Palin campaign has successfully answered the “big-spending Republican” smears, they’re going to really hit hard with the “slashed funds for teen mothers/disabled children/etc/etc/etc” lies.

Or they’ll do the hits in the opposite direction.

And then there’ll be a whole round of anchors talking about, “How can the Rethuglicans… I mean Republicans… possibly expect to convince the American people simultaneously that she slashed the budget with her line-item veto AND increased spending on these good things? I mean that just doesn’t pass the laugh test.”

Remember… they only have to keep the cloud of filth flying for 59 days…

My guest: Sarah Palin has been involved in an affair with Bristol Palin’s babydaddy Levi Johnston.

Or has this already been suggested by lovely folks at Daily Kos?

“I’ve recently read posts by some black bloggers, many of them people I’ve always credited with great insight and intelligence, unfortunately caught up in the nonsense of Obamacracy, stating forthrightly or obliquely that they are voting for him based on nothing more than the color of his skin. It saddens me when rational, intelligent AMERICANS are reduced to this type of behavior, but I guess that’s where we are today: Sports stars valued over teachers, vapor over substance, illusions and delusions over reality and hopes and goals and dreams.

In many ways I understand this mentality, the first time in history a black candidate has been a viable candidate for the highest office in the country. BUT… having the opportunity, shouldn’t they want to back a candidate who might actually effect change, rather than just pay it lip service? Obama is no Dr. King, that’s for sure.”

Sorry Mike, but Angie has a valid point. Well, several really.

Obama as a candidate: the tacit admission, sometimes direct, that people are voting for Obama because he is black is undeniable. There was even an article that tried to state that black Republicans were even going to vote for him for that reason. And to be sure, Hillary did not really have any more experience than Obama, which indicates that many in fact did vote “for the vagina” rather than the candidate. This is just inappropriate by thinking individuals on both counts.

The real question is: is Obama the best black candidate, or more importantly, the best candidate, that the DNC could produce? We know it is not enough to be black alone, regardless of experienc (see Clarence Thomas), but rather, the preference is to be black and Democrat, and an ultraleft one at that.

Mike compares Obama to Palin, but that is an apples/oranges comparison. What the argument hinges on is the definition of the term “qualified.” Obama has titles, and few bills that he helped on (or were passed to him), but in reality, he is one vote out of a hundred in a big committee. And in many cases, avoided even that responsibility. Ask yourself: what has he run? What are his real accomplishments (review HOW he got elected as well as the fact he did).

Palin, on the other hand, as a mayor and governor of Alaska, is/was the final word in the executive chain. She bucked the system and her own party on many occasions. Obama never did. Like it or not, she does have more executive experience than Obama, at least by my definition. Running a campaign is not real executive experience, but if so, it is meager. Additionally, if it is, it benefits McCain, and now Palin, as well. Biden ran unsuccessful campaigns, so his experience as an executive can only be counted as ineffective.

The statement “The vice president has two duties. One is to inquire daily as to the health of the president, and the other is to attend the funerals of Third World dictators.
shows that the position of VP is an on the job training and grooming position for an eventual presidential run of their own. Taking over for an incapacitated or deceased president is less applicable but still a consideration. It is a nice handle for Dems to grab with respect to McCain’s age, irrespective of his actual health, and about as much a campaign topic as Obama’s race: both something neither can do anything about.

Similarly, Biden’s resume is one of longevity rather than accomplishments, and he is the real person who should be compared to Palin. It is Obama’s own thin resume that draws the comparisons to Palin.

“Out of touch?” “Hate the Constitution?” “Dangerous?” Easy statements to make, harder to back up in a nonpartisan way. Why don’t you try?

As for myself, I would rather vote for a war hero and a governor than two lawyers. Maybe it is just a lawyer thing for me, but I think they would “wreck havoc” (Obama the orator said that) on the economy and the rest of the country, and put us at considerably more risk on the world state, presuming Obama means what he says (I take some heart in the fact he does not).