Quickies with Palin
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International experience.
To date, no information about Mrs. Palin’s international travel and experience is readily available. She attended college in Idaho, but much as one stretches one’s imagination, that is still not ‘international.’ She did visit troops in Iraq but dont really know at this point what came of it.
Governing experience
Governor Palin served as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population in 2000: 5,470) from 1992 - 1999. She has been governor of Alaska (estimated population in 2007: 683,478; ranked 47th) now for two years.
Campaigning
Governor Palin twice campaigned successfully for mayor of Wasilla. She ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002, and successfully for governor in 2006.
Issues
Environment: Governor Palin supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; she opposed the decision of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to list polar bears as endangered, saying it might hinder oil and gas development in Alaska. (It might be interesting to note that her husband was once employed by British Petroleum). She has also stated that the overwhelming evidence presented by nearly every reputable scientist on the topic of global warming is unreliable, and that it is not a man-made problem.
Guns: Governor Palin is proud of her long membership in the National Rifle Association.
Abortion: Opposed.
Gay Rights: Opposed.
Ill add more as I learn them...
To date, no information about Mrs. Palin’s international travel and experience is readily available. She attended college in Idaho, but much as one stretches one’s imagination, that is still not ‘international.’ She did visit troops in Iraq but dont really know at this point what came of it.
Governing experience
Governor Palin served as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska (population in 2000: 5,470) from 1992 - 1999. She has been governor of Alaska (estimated population in 2007: 683,478; ranked 47th) now for two years.
Campaigning
Governor Palin twice campaigned successfully for mayor of Wasilla. She ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002, and successfully for governor in 2006.
Issues
Environment: Governor Palin supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; she opposed the decision of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to list polar bears as endangered, saying it might hinder oil and gas development in Alaska. (It might be interesting to note that her husband was once employed by British Petroleum). She has also stated that the overwhelming evidence presented by nearly every reputable scientist on the topic of global warming is unreliable, and that it is not a man-made problem.
Guns: Governor Palin is proud of her long membership in the National Rifle Association.
Abortion: Opposed.
Gay Rights: Opposed.
Ill add more as I learn them...
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And if anyone believes the Republicans on that counter-argument they are a sheep.
Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard, said he and Governor Palin play no role in national defense activities in Alaska, even when they involve the Alaska National Guard. The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is NOT BRIEFED on situations.
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not true, they all have the exact same amount...
zero.
unless you've been president, you got a donut hole.
By your standards, more than McCain, too! You forgot to mention that, though.
~Edward
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Here's a few that I received from my daily MoveOn.org email that I'll amend to your list:
1) Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.
2) She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000.
3) Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.
4) How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.
~Edward
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Actually, you're wrong. She was a mayor, and a governor, both of which are considered executive experience. Nice try though.
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And you are right, which makes his ticket that much stronger now. Good point.
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Are any of those points incorrect?
prove it, post a source.
even if you're technically correct, you're really saying that being a governor of the least populated state for less than one term qualifies her to be president more than joe biden who was in service for this country when Juno's mom was in high school.
either way, doesn't wash. sorry
Google "executive branch" the only source that comes close to supporting your arguement is wikipedia. WP says states have executives on a STATE level, so yeah, but not exucutive on a federal level.
she does not have any federal executive experience, I'm sticking to that.
prove me wrong.
The entirety of STATE security under FEDERAL control?
Sounds like a Democratic scheme to me.
-not partisan, just messin-
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Just out of curiosity, i'm not that up on the candidates backgrounds, but do either Obama or Biden have any federal level "executive" experience?
What are we even talking about here?
That means only the presidency, vice presidency, or cabinate or other appointed agents of the executive, right?
Intelligence services like the CIA report to the executive, and i guess the Justice Department is under the executive ... what else is there?
I'm pretty sure Obama hasn't any such experience.
Does Biden?
Am i way off the mark on the meaning here implied?
???
If I opened it now would you not understand?
There's so much going on with this VP pick that it's hard to pick what you're going to talk about.
Nothing really but hold up traffic here in DC with Cheney's 21 vehicle motorcade. Just pisses me off since I have to drive by his Naval Observatory home everyday back and forth to work.
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She's managed and governed, something that Biden and Obama never have done. and no one has experience on the federal level. so the next thing you would look at is state governor. thats generally the closest to president you can get. Obama hasn't done anything at all.
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Obvious fact ignored: McCain just turned 72 and has cancer.
She also has zero foreign policy experience. Zero. Absolutely none. And if you tell me that Alaska being near Russia constitutes foreign policy experience, you should be laughed out of the room. Obama has traveled abroad on behalf of the United States. He has communicated and negotiated with foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Has he done this as much as McCain? Nope, but he's done it. For all your passionate talk about executive experience, I should tell you that the man at the top of the Republican ticket has absolutely no executive experience either. I guess he's unqualified as well. Anyway, I'm not saying Palin is unqualified, she may be. However, John McCain doesn't seem to think so. McCain has stated throughout his campaign that his veep candidate must have "extensive qualifications and experience" and someone with "experience and knowledge in foreign policy." His words, not mine.
Obama has done nothing? Obama has sponsored, co-sponsored, and voted for many pieces of legislation, both in the U.S. Senate and in the State Senate. I encourage you to look it up; it's easily found all over the Internet
I think one of the differences that must be noted is that Bush was vice president to Ronald Reagan, an incredibly popular president who maintained high popularity numbers even at his departure. McCain's Republican predecessor? . . . . . .yeah.
plus, Alaska is near Russia, so there's her foreign policy experience. So say Cindy McCain and Steve Doocy, the village idiot ove rat Fox News
I really can't believe they are trying that. I wouldn't have believed anyone if they had told me that Cindy McCain had stated that those were Palin's foreign policy credentials, but sure enough, I saw it with my own eyes. This election is completely insane; I never thought that Obama's admittedly thin foreign policy credentials would end up being a positive for him.