Republican senator says Palin not qualified to be president

So what else is new. EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT MCBUSH SELECTED HER BECAUSE HE HOPES THAT SHE WILL GET HIM SOME OF THOSE HILLARY SUPPORTERS. He may get some but not all. I know that woman are smarter than this.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay. White privilege is when you can call yourself a "freakin' redneck," like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their freakin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot shit" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug. White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action. White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested." White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she's being disrespectful.

I don't agree with most of Chuck Hagel's conservative positions, but he is an honest man! I like him. He would be a good choice for Secretary of Defense in an Obama Cabinet.

I had not read the piece before my earlier comment. Even though he says he is not endorsing Obama, I still like him. And he may not admit it publicly, but surely he must be planning to vote for Barack. He just needs to go on and do the d--- thing! Come out, Chuck! :)

Oosee, you hit the nail on the head. I don’t consider myself a racist person, but what you stated is exactly why those republican evangelist hypocrites infuriate me. My anger would never let me express your sentiments so eloquently.

Oosee, you nailed it.

I gagged! A republican said someting truthful! These are truly the end times. LOL!

oosee, you've stated a truth that resonates. i've fowarded your comments to my address book. thanks.

Oosee, you forgot to mention one thing. Black kids are arrested, convicted and gave a permanent criminal record for doing the same things that white kids are only gave a warning. Black kids are dangerous. With respect to white kids, kids will be kids. This is a fact. I have been around white kids most of my life.

Oosee I am going to forward your comments to a gentleman who wrote a letter to editor in my local paper today declaring Palin more qualified to be than Obama because of her elected positions. I was going to send a letter calling him ignorant, but your remarks are much much more appropriate.

Sen. Chuck Hagel went on Meet the Press to defend Obama when McCain's camp tried to pretend Obama snubbed the troops in Germany. Hagel does not mince words and even though he says he will not endorse anyone, its clear he is firmly in Barack Obama's camp.

The GOP has been very careful to expose Palin to MSM questioning. I suspect it is due to the fact that she isn't well versed on international policy. That was obvious during her interview with Gibson on ABC. I fail to see how her ability to see Russia from Alaska makes her qualified to handle such matters. Challenging the press to question her at the end of a town hall meeting was all about hype. If she really wants to prove that she has leadership qualities, then she should step up and get ready to rumble like political candidates do in this nation. Let the MSM question her and we can vett her properly. There are also other women in the GOP who were better qualified to step up and be on the ticket. I suspect they were by passed for the image that Palin projects as a female. In my personal opinion Condi Rice is by far the most well versed woman regarding international policy. It would certainly be a different race if she was ton the GOP ticket. The hype of gender has not gone unnoticed by disgruntled Hillary supporters. Palin's political stances are totally in the opposite direction of what HRC's are. There are groups of women who openly oppose Palin as the Veep nominee. While it is a historical moment for the GOP to have a woman on the ticket, it would be difficult for me to believe that the GOP is totally sold on the idea that she is ready to lead if something happens to McCain. I do not feel that she can step up and take over the nation. A lot of her comments regarding the current economic crisis are not solutions. Talking about the SEC and firing the head is not a solution to the policies that have put our money business in a state of emergency. She tries to come across as hip and tough. But if anyone is paying attention to the coverage she is receiving~it is pretty much the same speech being given over and over. Plus that, the GOP wants the MSM and the public to be nice to her. But she is the one who sold tickets during her RNC speech. I feel if she is going to be in the political yard either she is going to truly be a pit bull or she needs to get on the porch with the puppies. Her current statements about her ability to lead have been refuted. The Bridge to Nowhere is still on the table. She has approached the Federal Government for money for special interest projects in Alaska. She misrepresented what she did to save taxpayers money regarding the sale of the airplane on ebay. She has also stated that she is pro-special needs programs. Yet she cut the budget of the Alaska's Special Needs Olympics Program. As far as her family values are concerned, I find myself questioning why the MSM isn't all up in her spouses business. He has some documented connections to the Alaskan Independent Party. Perhaps I am wrong but talk of succession from the Union does not sound like a great American Patriot to me. Yet this seems to be bypassed. Why? If he is the individual who will be her back in DC, I want to know about their combined politics. I won't attack her daughter for being an unmarried, pregnant teen. But I will say this, it is obvious that abstaining only education did not help prevent this situation. And Palin might want to stand firm on being anti-sex education in the national education system, but it appears that it is needed to help other teens from making poor decisions about sexual activity. Having unprotected sex has a whole lot of different consequences. STD's are transmitted by people having unprotected sex. A matter of fact that Palin wants to ignore. And making her a poster mother for not aborting the baby is not impressive. There are thousands of teen mother's who do not opt to abort their children. This is just a cover up on the part of the GOP and the MSM. If either of the Obama girls were in this situation we would be totally bombarded with coverage and value judgements. McCain pulled a long shot by nominating Palin, I feel that it demonstrates how ineffective his ability is to lead the nation. I saw it as an act of desperation on his part and he did so in a ship shod manner. This is not an indication to me that he uses intelligent nor sound decision making.

How moronic one must be to believe Sara Palin was ever qualified to take the serious position of VP and possible Presidential should McCain fall ill. I didn't need Hagel or anyone at CNN to tell me what I already know. I have no ill wishes for McCain, he had my support in 2000 when he was credible. As for Ms. Palin, she has never proven to me to be fit for any job outside of the small remote and densely populated town in Alaska. And even that is now being questioned by her own press coverage of the hiring of a managerial team to do the work for her. She's proven to be nothing more than a tenacious opportunist who indulges in petty Republican politics herself and whose surroundings are crooked to the core as her Alaskan Senator is. It is the rot of the NeoCon movement that hijacked what credibility Republicans once had. It made me register Independent.

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