Quickies with Palin

freindlyfired

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...

meistereder

One thing you might add under "international experience" is that Republicans are now pointing to the fact Alaska is close to Russia. Of course, that ignores the fact that Siberia is politically insignificant. But that's the counter-argument to the lack of international experience, anyway.

Taft

meistereder wrote:

One thing you might add under "international experience" is that Republicans are now pointing to the fact Alaska is close to Russia. Of course, that ignores the fact that Siberia is politically insignificant. But that's the counter-argument to the lack of international experience, anyway.

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.

JP2026766

She has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined.

stupidcorporatewhore

ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:

She has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined.

not true, they all have the exact same amount...

zero.

unless you've been president, you got a donut hole.

edpearson

ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:

She has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined.

By your standards, more than McCain, too! You forgot to mention that, though.

edpearson

freindlyfired wrote:

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...

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.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

heh, so i take it she wont be getting many moderates or clinton fans?

JP2026766

stupidcorporatewhore wrote:

not true, they all have the exact same amount...

zero.

unless you've been president, you got a donut hole.

Actually, you're wrong. She was a mayor, and a governor, both of which are considered executive experience. Nice try though.

JP2026766

edpearson wrote:

By your standards, more than McCain, too! You forgot to mention that, though.

And you are right, which makes his ticket that much stronger now. Good point.

WaveCameCrashin

edpearson wrote:

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.

move on? Are you kidding me? why dont you get your info from somewhere thats not biased.

meistereder

gvn2fly74 wrote:

move on? Are you kidding me? why dont you get your info from somewhere thats not biased.

Are any of those points incorrect?

stupidcorporatewhore

ThrowUrArmsAroundMe wrote:

Actually, you're wrong. She was a mayor, and a governor, both of which are considered executive experience. Nice try though.

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

stupidcorporatewhore

update:

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.

DriftingByTheStorm

Taft wrote:

The entire operation is under federal control, and the governor is NOT BRIEFED on situations.

The entirety of STATE security under FEDERAL control?

Sounds like a Democratic scheme to me.


-not partisan, just messin-

DriftingByTheStorm

stupidcorporatewhore wrote:

update:

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.

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?

???

Brain of mJ

Apparently Bristol is a fan of quickies.

Fighting Hellfish

anyone see the interview from alst month where she says that before she considers running for VP, someone would have to explain to her what exactly it is that the VP does all day?

Vedderlution_Baby

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

anyone see the interview from alst month where she says that before she considers running for VP, someone would have to explain to her what exactly it is that the VP does all day?

There's so much going on with this VP pick that it's hard to pick what you're going to talk about.

Fighting Hellfish

you knwo what cracks me up too? All this stuff is coming out, and the neocons on talk radio and on the internet interpret it as "Libs" being terrified of Palin. It's like when there was semingly a new Bush controversy almost daily. They buried their head in the sand, and said "libs" had Bush derangement Syndrome. Bush could do no wrong, and now neither can the hockey mom who lives close to Russia and is running for VP

fuck

this thread title is very misleading :(