Conservative David Frum on Sarah Palin

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Conservative David Frum on Sarah Palin:


Ms. Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She served two terms on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000. She served two terms as mayor. In November, 2006, she was elected governor of the state, a job she has held for a little more than 18 months. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues.

All this would matter less, but for this fact: The day that John McCain announced his selection of Sarah Palin was his birthday. His 72nd birthday. Seventy-two is not as old as it used to be, but Mr. McCain had a bout with melanoma seven years ago, and his experience in prison camp has uncertain implications for his future health.

If anything were to happen to a President McCain, the destiny of the free world would be placed in the hands of a woman who until recently was a small-town mayor.

Mr. McCain's supporters argue that he is more serious about national security than Barack Obama. But the selection of Sarah Palin invites the question: How serious can he be if he would place such a neophyte second in line to the presidency? Barack Obama at least balanced his inexperience with Mr. Biden's experience. What is Mr. McCain doing?


Well said Mr. Frum.

http://www.aei.org/include/pub_prin...cations/filter.all,pubID.28535/pub_detail.asp
 
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Do you realize you are quoting one of the premier neocons?? :)

You know the Bots are desperate when they have to reach to the neocons for help. :D
 
maybe its just sad then even the newcons and the Left agree...and you cant even admit that there is truth to it.

Leiberman today , was asked was she ready, he bascily said no....and tried to brush it off saying we just hope nothing happens to mccain and people dont vote based on VP

So basicly she is not ready, but thats fine so long as the voters dont care....its all about the politics, not can she do the job.
 
Leiberman today , was asked was she ready, he bascily said no....and tried to brush it off saying we just hope nothing happens to mccain and people dont vote based on VP

So basicly she is not ready, but thats fine so long as the voters dont care....its all about the politics, not can she do the job.

Oh please... You got Obama on the top of your ticket. He hasn't run anything but his mouth since he got into politics. :)

Palin is our VP and I'd sooner trust her inexperience to run the country than Obama's inexperience.
 
Leiberman today , was asked was she ready, he bascily said no....and tried to brush it off saying we just hope nothing happens to mccain and people dont vote based on VP

Source?? I just listened to his speech at the GOP convention, and he didn't say anything that could even remotely be construed in that manner.
 
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From another AEI Neocon:

Biden is a strange choice for Obama. Consider the following reasons:

* Biden has been a Senator for thirty-six years, one of the longest-serving in either party, hardly the kind of "change" that Obama uses as his campaign mantra. Indeed, Biden is a true Washington "insider," who has failed twice in his own efforts to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, precisely because he is not well known "outside the Beltway."
* Biden will be sixty-six years old in November, just six years younger than McCain, not exactly the kind of "youthful" image Obama has tried to project. And while Biden was running in his first Senate election in 1972, McCain was trapped in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
* Biden has made his reputation in foreign policy, thus highlighting Obama's inexperience in that critical area. In fact, the McCain campaign has already run television commercials featuring Biden's criticisms earlier this year of Obama's foreign policy positions. Some have compared Biden's role in any future Obama Administration to Dick Cheney's role in the present Bush Administration, hardly the picture one would think the Democrats wanted to convey.
* Biden's home state of Delaware has only three votes in the Electoral College, and was considered safe for the Democrats to begin with. He adds no new constituencies to Obama's campaign, and puts no typically Republican states at risk.

Biden has one other major problem: a lack of discipline that reveals itself in his inability to stop talking. Of course, Biden is not alone in Washington in liking to hear himself talk, but his unique capacity has given many Americans the chance to learn a new word: logorrhea. Dictionaries define logorrhea as "excessive and often incoherent wordiness." That is Joe Biden personified. Unless he is carefully scripted and shielded from contact with the press, it is almost inevitable that he will talk himself into difficulty.
 
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