By now, everyone here probably knows that I seriously question Governor Palin’s ability to step in “on day one” and be President if necessary. Although I think she is a very intelligent person, I still don’t think she has the experience necessary.
Perhaps we can all just agree to disagree on that.
But the thing is, Senator Obama is no more qualified than Palin to be President. Yet no one in the Press is willing to question him on that.
My question to the McCain campaign is, now that the Press has admitted that the issue of “experience” is legitimate, why not press the Press to raise it against Obama. And highlight the fact that the Press hasn’t.
Instead of ads that claim Obama called Palin a pig (which I think is false) or that Obama wants to teach kindergarteners about sex (which is such an exaggeration that it is also false), why not ask the question of why isn’t the Press questioning Obama’s experience?
I have argued that McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin makes it almost impossible for him to raise the “experience” argument against Obama but the obvious bias of the Press does open up the opportunity to either highlight the liberal prejudices of the Media or force them to begin asking the questions of Obama that they should have been asking a year or two ago.
Either way, I think McCain wins.
And by the way, Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign should stop claiming that she initially opposed the “Bridge to Nowhere.” About the only place I see even Republicans supporting her claims is RedState.
Democrats think Obama is qualified
neum432 Thursday, September 11th at 11:44PM EDT (link)The reason the press will not question Obama’s qualifications is simple. He won the Democratic Primary and millions of people voted for him. I question the judgement of these voters more than anything. Then again, 59 million people voted for John Kerry four years ago.
A little less than half of the voters in this country are stupid anyway. They gather their news and information from front page news headlines and thirty- second sound bites. The duty of the Republican candidate is to get the informed voters (51%) of them to show up and vote in November.
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Oh Zoot you know why they don't ask him....
JadedByPolitics Friday, September 12th at 5:51AM EDT (link)he is their candidate they would never ask him the hard question….but I know you were just being “smart aleckey”
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
Recall when the kid asked Obama why?
hunter Friday, September 12th at 6:36AM EDT (link)Why he was running for President?
He could not answer the question.
hunter
Well duh isn't it explicit in the Constitution?
bk Friday, September 12th at 6:39AM EDT (link)Well it’s a “living” Constitution, so what’s a little tinkering?
Zoot
MelZ Friday, September 12th at 6:54AM EDT (link)That is the lfirst question I asked myself. Amazing that no one in the media cares if the Democratic Presidential is qualified to be ….uhh President. And obviously whether like her or not, she would probably have not accepted the spot had she not thought she was qualified to be VP meaning qualified to be President if it so came to that.
By the way, I guess taking a spot as a VP candidate and then saying you are ready to be President makes you arrogant.
MelZ
I disagree on the last para.
Rod_Patrick Friday, September 12th at 7:07AM EDT (link)McCain camp never said that Sarah was initially opposed to BTN.
But Sarah did stop the BTN which shows that she was right when it really mattered. Note that she did reduce earmarks for Alaska by half as compared to previous governors.