Did McCain just hand Obama the Presidency with his VP Choice?

Marcus

"The formal powers and role of the vice president are limited by the Constitution to becoming President in the event of the death or resignation of the President and acting as the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate." - It looks like the Vice Pres. isn't responsible for much. The single greatest role of the Vice Pres. looks to be stepping in as President if needed.

MitchM

People like to speculate and come up with so called credentials and experience to make a point or call a question - that's fairly common as we all have our opinions. But who is going to rise to occasion or not is an unknown.

Sara Palin has served as a city council member, a mayor, and Governor of Alaska for twenty months - those are credentials. They are not lengthy credentials and AZBROKER calls them minor league - of course he can have that opinion.

Here's an analogy - I once sponsored a man into our business and he had what looked like all the qualities and skills to become very successful. But he blew it. He was a poor student of our business and his ego got in the way of everything he did.

On the other hand an unlikely woman with no experience who would have been last on anyone's prospecting list has over and over again arose to the occasion and is successful.

Obviously you look for credentials and experience when you vote - then you turn inward and some kind of value system you've come to internalize takes over. Then some emotions turn on and the day comes and it's time to cast a vote.

BUT is that obvious? What are people voting on and for? Do deep thoughts of discernment cast the vote? What biases do we cherish?

I am one of the few people I know who understands all of that and will vote for all the right reasons and whether you agree with me or not I will still leave the light on for you when you arrive.

MitchM

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AZBroker

Ok, maybe not.

I would agree and that's what I find scary about Palin being in the VP seat.

Mikey

I don't think Palin would have much chance of being elected as President. She has a much better chance of becoming President as VP to a President who is advanced in age and a history of health problems.

Jolly Roger

This is one of many similar comments on Anderson Cooper 360:

"As a former resident of Alaska, I’ve seen the challenges Gov. Palin has faced dealing with the state legislature there. But as a woman, I am deeply offended at McCain’s blatant pandering to those women angry that Hillary wasn’t chosen as the Democratic VP candidate. To tout Gov. Palin’s “life experience” as sufficient to possibly lead this nation is laughable. She has experience as the mayor of a small Alaskan town, has been governor for only 2 years, has little national experience and NO experience in the foreign affairs department. Beyond that, she’s a 44 year old mother of 5. She’s been a small business owner and was briefly a T.V. sportscaster. I hardly think that’s enough experience to qualify her to lead the nation should McCain fall ill (or worse.) And yet he questions Obama’s experience to lead? To think that to choose her because she’s a woman is enough is insulting! And any one of Hillary’s supporters who fall for it deserve to have their voter registration cards revoked!"

It appears you're not alone in your viewpoint.

Houston

Just in case you see didn't this before, "Palin says she is confident she could handle the duties of president if necessary." That was on this page - http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/...abc/index.html

AZBroker

It is very possible that Palin has underestimated the complexity of the job or overestimated her abilities to lead the Country.

Douglas

It can be argued that Obama has less experience than Pailin and he IS running for the Top Spot.

Douglas

Houston

And the hits keep coming.

"CNN: What did you initially think when Sarah Palin was announced as the Republican vice presidential nominee?
Zakaria: I was a bit surprised -- as I think most people were. But I was willing to give her a chance. And I thought her speech at the convention was clever and funny. But once she began answering questions about economics and foreign policy, it became clear that she has simply never thought about these subjects before and is dangerously ignorant and unprepared for the job of vice president, let alone president"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americ...lin/index.html

MitchM

Many Someone's gonna say smugly - I told ya so.

So it goes.

MitchM