The odd couple! – McCain-Palin ’08!
What attempt at making history is being made with this choice?
The reason the show worked was because it asked a legitimate question about opposing lifestyle personalities living or functioning under one roof and endeavoring to trust one another as roommates or friends. As it appears that McCain feels the Vice-Presidents’ job is to inquire as to the health of the President and to attend State funerals, the former beauty queen should hold up quite nicely but will she be happy? As to the fact the Governor Palin appeared to be concerned that she would be doing just that and little else, yet accepted the offer anyway, one has to wonder about curious decisions of this uniquely different political season. So we try to understand the making of a momentous selection in face of the obvious joy, glee and celebration just experienced by the Democrats making history with the selection of the first Black Presidential Candidate of a major political party here in America.
If that in and of itself was alone the essence of the Democratic participation of this primary season, it would be one thing. This season also included the most competitive and legitimate contest by who should be now a very pissed-off and motivated to support Barack Obama, the Senator from the great state of New York. Palin suggested that the struggle of the last 20 months of Hillary’s Army, The Sisters of the Traveling Pantsuits, Hillary’s Girls, the movement of all the souls who saw in this particular moment, a chance to put a solid American Woman in the White House for the first time, as something she could just walk in and fulfill. I, as a man, who was on with Hillary a little longer than my lady, left when President Clinton compared Senator Obama efforts to Reverend Jesse Jackson, which I still feel was an insult of the highest order. With that being said, there is no way that a person coming to the conclusion that Palin qualifies in that manner reasonable state of mind to be President. That claim is such a slap in the face for all of the work, sacrifice and dignified faith of the women and men who supported Senator Clinton’s monumental accomplishment. That in and of itself should lend credence to any and all inquiries made as to the state of affairs of the opponents mental faculties.
There appears to be mass confusion with this selection by the Senator from Arizona, of a relative political novice, on just who benefits the most from her selection. Pundits, paid by the mostly right-winged media outlets are singing her praise with the gun-toting, rural white evangalicals and supposededly angry Hillary malcontents or disaffected women. Basically, the group no one wants to name and that is those white men and women who will not vote for a Black man. They are out there, that is just our nations reality, this election seeks to change some of their minds and hearts, but you won’t change of all of them, that is just the way it is. Then, there is the mindset that this was a choice more of desperation in reaction to the “Tonight, Well done Senator”, ad he put out with seeming confidence offered but not felt, after the Democratic gathering ended. He saw this as an opportunity to try to revive that old “Maverick” title he had before the Republican Party allowed him and his family be swift-boated during his 2000 bid for the Presidency. His selection of her with a reputation for taking on big oil companies for the good of all Alaskans, her anti abortion stance appeal to the religious right, and her NRA membership.
I think there may be something totally different going on with this experience, and it has nothing to do with returning to his maverick roots as much revealing of the true dark character of this Republican Senator who would be President. First and foremost is the dismissal of his colleagues campaign by even allowing his VP pick to suggest that she was worthy of picking up that particular baton and running with it. If this statement of disregard doesn’t let the women of the Traveling Pantsuits know their value to McCain, I don’t know what will. My thought was what if everyone is wrong about that which this maverick seeks to accomplish. When Bush went after him in 2000, it was pretty ugly and word got out the McCain’s wife was roughed up and paying for it emotionally. McCain, who thought paying his dues as a POW for his country was the ultimate price and even more so for the Republican Party which had stolen the mantle of patriotism by that time,. (I say stolen, as fewer members of their party serve in the military than does the Democrats.) He watched the RNC, who under the influence of the Cheney group and other members of the Project for a New American Century gather around one they could have some control of and that was George Bush. Then in 2004, after more than a year past mission accomplished, and death tolls rising, McCain once again had to bite the bullet and embrace a man who had no respect for him or any of his perceived dues to this country.
It came out in an interview that the RNC again confronted McCain on the possible selection of Senator Joe Lieberman as his Vice Presidential Candidate. They were willing to bring it to a floor fight because he is a registered Democrat. It seems that the party was not as open minded as McCain to go after the Independents and Regan-Democrats unable or unwilling to vote for Obama. There is so much one can take and then the possibility of going over the edge increases exponentially. I think this is one of those moments when he said, “Enough!” I can’t take this anymore. If I can’t have Lieberman, who has had my back and I trust! Fine! You want right wing-nut, gun toting NRA pride and all that, alright! I’ll give them just what they want. I just picked the most inexperienced green politician with the most extreme religious views and nothing in common as a woman with Hillary’s brigade I could find to be the Party’s Vice Presidential Candidate and the neo cons and religious right love her, what do think about that? If I can’t have Lieberman, then you don’t get the White House. What if this is a revenge pick?
What attempt at making history is being made with this choice?
The reason the show worked was because it asked a legitimate question about opposing lifestyle personalities living or functioning under one roof and endeavoring to trust one another as roommates or friends. As it appears that McCain feels the Vice-Presidents’ job is to inquire as to the health of the President and to attend State funerals, the former beauty queen should hold up quite nicely but will she be happy? As to the fact the Governor Palin appeared to be concerned that she would be doing just that and little else, yet accepted the offer anyway, one has to wonder about curious decisions of this uniquely different political season. So we try to understand the making of a momentous selection in face of the obvious joy, glee and celebration just experienced by the Democrats making history with the selection of the first Black Presidential Candidate of a major political party here in America.
If that in and of itself was alone the essence of the Democratic participation of this primary season, it would be one thing. This season also included the most competitive and legitimate contest by who should be now a very pissed-off and motivated to support Barack Obama, the Senator from the great state of New York. Palin suggested that the struggle of the last 20 months of Hillary’s Army, The Sisters of the Traveling Pantsuits, Hillary’s Girls, the movement of all the souls who saw in this particular moment, a chance to put a solid American Woman in the White House for the first time, as something she could just walk in and fulfill. I, as a man, who was on with Hillary a little longer than my lady, left when President Clinton compared Senator Obama efforts to Reverend Jesse Jackson, which I still feel was an insult of the highest order. With that being said, there is no way that a person coming to the conclusion that Palin qualifies in that manner reasonable state of mind to be President. That claim is such a slap in the face for all of the work, sacrifice and dignified faith of the women and men who supported Senator Clinton’s monumental accomplishment. That in and of itself should lend credence to any and all inquiries made as to the state of affairs of the opponents mental faculties.
There appears to be mass confusion with this selection by the Senator from Arizona, of a relative political novice, on just who benefits the most from her selection. Pundits, paid by the mostly right-winged media outlets are singing her praise with the gun-toting, rural white evangalicals and supposededly angry Hillary malcontents or disaffected women. Basically, the group no one wants to name and that is those white men and women who will not vote for a Black man. They are out there, that is just our nations reality, this election seeks to change some of their minds and hearts, but you won’t change of all of them, that is just the way it is. Then, there is the mindset that this was a choice more of desperation in reaction to the “Tonight, Well done Senator”, ad he put out with seeming confidence offered but not felt, after the Democratic gathering ended. He saw this as an opportunity to try to revive that old “Maverick” title he had before the Republican Party allowed him and his family be swift-boated during his 2000 bid for the Presidency. His selection of her with a reputation for taking on big oil companies for the good of all Alaskans, her anti abortion stance appeal to the religious right, and her NRA membership.
I think there may be something totally different going on with this experience, and it has nothing to do with returning to his maverick roots as much revealing of the true dark character of this Republican Senator who would be President. First and foremost is the dismissal of his colleagues campaign by even allowing his VP pick to suggest that she was worthy of picking up that particular baton and running with it. If this statement of disregard doesn’t let the women of the Traveling Pantsuits know their value to McCain, I don’t know what will. My thought was what if everyone is wrong about that which this maverick seeks to accomplish. When Bush went after him in 2000, it was pretty ugly and word got out the McCain’s wife was roughed up and paying for it emotionally. McCain, who thought paying his dues as a POW for his country was the ultimate price and even more so for the Republican Party which had stolen the mantle of patriotism by that time,. (I say stolen, as fewer members of their party serve in the military than does the Democrats.) He watched the RNC, who under the influence of the Cheney group and other members of the Project for a New American Century gather around one they could have some control of and that was George Bush. Then in 2004, after more than a year past mission accomplished, and death tolls rising, McCain once again had to bite the bullet and embrace a man who had no respect for him or any of his perceived dues to this country.
It came out in an interview that the RNC again confronted McCain on the possible selection of Senator Joe Lieberman as his Vice Presidential Candidate. They were willing to bring it to a floor fight because he is a registered Democrat. It seems that the party was not as open minded as McCain to go after the Independents and Regan-Democrats unable or unwilling to vote for Obama. There is so much one can take and then the possibility of going over the edge increases exponentially. I think this is one of those moments when he said, “Enough!” I can’t take this anymore. If I can’t have Lieberman, who has had my back and I trust! Fine! You want right wing-nut, gun toting NRA pride and all that, alright! I’ll give them just what they want. I just picked the most inexperienced green politician with the most extreme religious views and nothing in common as a woman with Hillary’s brigade I could find to be the Party’s Vice Presidential Candidate and the neo cons and religious right love her, what do think about that? If I can’t have Lieberman, then you don’t get the White House. What if this is a revenge pick?
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