I'll admit I didn't know much about Palin until I heard she could be the VP pick. After reading up on where she stands on issues, most notably the pro-life issue...if it's her McCain gets my vote.

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"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia

I could only take the first ten minutes. Then I flipped over to Futurama.

Bender is more down to earth and believable. 

Obama addressed what I consider to be his biggest political problem… he delivered the, “I am not a wuss” speech.

Now that Obama has put us on notice that he is a grown-up tough guy, we’ll see if that holds when he goes up man-to-man in the debates… or will he recede back into his non-confrontational self.

same old dem speech with new packaging.  

 Nothing new from Mr. Obama, just droning on and on.

Nanny state with a twist of personal responsibility, that will last for a few nano seconds.

A lot of Obama supporters I've been exchanging messages with online this morning welcome that pick because they think her lack of experience will be used against her. Which I can only laugh at given the irony of that argument.

She's a maverick in the party, she's from a state that's at the center of the domestic drilling debate, she's a pro-lifer, she has a son who is about to be deployed to Iraq, and she's a woman obviously which would appeal to a lot of disgruntled Hillary supporters and female voters in general.

Plus she's a hottie which never hurts.

Obamas speech. To be honest, I could only stomach about 10 mins of it. It had the effect of causing me to shout at the TV. The part that really struck me was his grandmother raised him and his sister while working and going to school, using the grants and such. And he wants to make that possible for everyone. Question: if she could do it, why cant everyone else do it? What needs to be changed? What stops them now?

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Can it be McCain is really reaching out to Conservatives? 

Torches & Pitchforks

I refer again to Krauthammer's take: he couldn't give a messianic speech because he'd already gone to that well too often, and he was becoming a self-parody. But he had already booked the stadium, so he was forced to give a small speech in a big venue. The speech didn't fill the stadium, that's for sure.

Alert: The following is mostly sarcasm. 

• McCain doesn't "feel the pain" of the 95% of us who  are going through the Great Depression all over again. Well, to be honest, I'm not personally going through any Depression experience, and every indicator is that the economy is standing steady during some tough shots -- but Obama gave us anecdotes of heroic poor people struggling, so it must be true that the Depression is here. 
• Obama will restore our reputation in the world. Because our allies' opinion of us means everything. You see, if we had a good reputation, we could have gone to France and Germany when everyone thought Saddam had WMDs, when we really needed them and it was in their best interests, and we could have asked for their help. Oh yeah, we did that. They figured we were going to invade anyway, so why should they stick their neck out? Sorry. Never mind.
• And he's going to get Osama bin Laden, holed up in some cave near Pakistan. How's he going to do it? He's going to send as many soldiers as it takes into the crevices of those mountains, no matter how many get picked off trying to approach an easily-defended position, no matter how many of our soldiers get chopped down. And we're going to capture bin Laden before he commits suicide and obliterates any trace of his body, so that the attacking soldiers will never know whether they killed him or not. As many soldiers as it takes. And even if it inflames the Paks, who are a sovereign country with nukes. That's yet another example of his superior "judgment" and how concerned he is for the troops. Either that, or he will try to assemble more intelligence, and try to bribe/persuade one of bin Laden's associates into giving him up ... oh wait, that's what we've been doing. Sorry. Never mind.
• Forget 9/11. Forget the surge. No, really, we (the Democrats) want you to forget about them. You see, we're now bragging that the Bush Administration is agreeing on a timeline for withdrawal, which is what we've been arguing about all along. Never mind that Bush and McCain have been arguing that the conditions on the ground dictate the withdrawal, not timetables. And the surge, the strategy that the Democrats sneered at, the strategy that created the conditions that allow us to withdraw? Sorry. Never mind.

Finally john your doing it right!!!!!  Go McCain/Palin!!!!! 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

I watched the whole thing. It was everything the Democrats wanted. It was the perfect speech for them. Lots of air about education, starving kids, people getting kicked out of hospitals, dying elderly, dying animals, dying troops, dying mom, lots of big-business-bashing, and so on. No real substance at all, so nothing could be claimed to be a lie later on. Enough nuance to make Sally Quinn blush. A tiny little bit of air to make sure liberal African-Americans know he hasn't forgotten them.

I wouldn't be unhappy with Palin, although she comes up short in experience, and Obama could use that to his advantage. I think the smart choice would be Kay Baily-Hutchison, although, being from Texas, I admit to being very biased towards someone I have voted for since 1993, when young Palin was serving on the Wasilla City Council.

Edit: Darn, as I was writing this, AP popped up: "John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate, two senior campaign officials told The Associated Press on Friday."

I love how AP just HAD to put in "little-known".

Edit-Edit: It has already started, and McCain hasn't even named her officially yet. AP updated their story: "She is three years Obama's junior, as well — and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama's relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters."

When I said, "Obama could use that to his advantage", I meant to say, "Obama and his media sycophants could use that to his advantage" 

Pssst, Barack, buddy, these two items came about because Democrats were in charge.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

President Bill is the one who sold that missile technology to China. 

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

It was Nagin and Blanco sitting on their hands.  Constitutionally, the federal government has to be invited into a state before it can intervene [Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution requires state approval before any federal intervention].  Blanco waited a day and a half after the storm had hit before requesting assistance.  The school buses Nagin coould have used to evacuate the city sat in a parking lot that got flooded out. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

CNN is REALLY in the tank for OBAMA. Just now (PST) Dana Bash is saying that Sarah Palin is going to have a difficult time when she has to go up against Biden who has "so many more years of experience in the Senate" and she has such a short time as governor. What Dana is NOT saying is that Gov. Palin has MORE experience than Barry Obama.

A little bit earlier CNN's John King was speculating that one of the issues in her selection would be if she would be able to find the time to campaign since she had a Down syndrome child. Unbelievable! CNN is making every attempt to poo poo McCain's selection of Sarah Palin.

John McCain finally did it! He couldn't have selected a BETTER candidate for VP.  Kudos to John McCain. 

The liberal media is really having a problem with this selection. I'm smiling from ear to ear over their frustration.

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“There is no sane movement in a sane environment that would back a man with his credentials such as they are for the highest office in the land.” ~ Rush Limbaugh on Democrats selecting Barack Obama

Maria Bartiromo will be interviewing Sarah Palin on CNBC's Closing Bell at 4 PM eastern time today. The interview took place earlier this week before Palin got the nod for VP.