Posted by
JPJE on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:23:11 PM
All this gossip about Bristol being pregnant, Palin not having enough experience in foreign affairs and not being properly vetted and McCain showing poor judgment makes no sense to me. Bristol's pregnancy is the family's business and theirs alone. The fact that this was brought before the national and international media merely bears witness to the lack of integrity and character in the media.
If the Dems want to debate about experience, I think conservatives would welcome it with open arms because the Dems will be forced to argue that Obama's experience as a community organizer, State Senator and then a whole 140-something days as a US senator qualify him to be President. They can't try to exploit this "weakness" of Palin unless they are willing to admit their candidate is equally unqualified and inexperienced. And Al Gore said it well last week at the DNC. Abe Lincoln only had 8 years as a state legislator before running for President. So how do the Dems suppose to discredit Palin without discrediting Obama? This is also totally ignoring the argument that Palin has much more executive experience than Obama and has accomplished more in her "backwoodsy" state than Obama has in his entire career in Chicago. And by the way, the larger issue is that she's running for VP, not President. McCain, the one who actually is running for President, blows Obama out of the water in experience, and I guess that's why they want to turn this into Obama vs. Palin instead of Obama vs. McCain.
And then the media is tirelessly plugging that McCain didn't look into Palin's background enough which shows a flaw in his judgment. Do the Dems really want to talk about a lack of judgment? Really? Because that's fantastic news for conservatives. Let's talk about Obama's judgment in sitting in a racist and hate mongering church for 20 years listening to the lunatic who is "Rev." Jeremiah Wright. Let's talk about his associations and correspondance with Bill Ayers, who bombed the Pentagon and the Capitol and says he wasn't sorry and wished he did more. Let's talk about the lucrative housing arrangement that Obama and Tony Rezko made, which lined the now convicted felon's pockets. Let's talk about Obama's ties to the corrupt Chicago political machine which gave birth to his run for the state senate. Do these things reflect good judgment? Or an extremely alarming lack thereof? Honestly, if the Dems want to take it that far, I'm sure they won't find any disagreement from the Republicans. But let's be honest, the mainstream media would never want to confront their tingle-giving poster boy with such questions, so I guess Obama is probably going to cakewalk through most of the election.
The Democrats couldn't be more hypocritical and idiotic in their arguments, but somehow nobody calls them out on it and they still get away with it.