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The Palin Pick
Says Andrew: The Palin pick sure will win headlines. It wasn’t competely out of the blue, but it’s a little mystifying for one obvious reason. If McCain’s entire argument so far has been that Obama is too untested to be president, then how can he pick a 44-year-old first-term ...
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Cutting Both Ways
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Sonny Bunch says I am confused: Andrew has this exactly backwards. The McCain campaign is hoping and praying that someone will say that Palin is unready for the job. “Please,” John McCain is praying right now AS I TYPE, “Let a Democrat say that an executive with 2 years of experience and no foreign policy expertise isn’t ready for the presidency. Oh pretty please. Because you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take that soundbite, put it in an ad, slap Obama’s mug up there, and run it over and over and over again.” Because Palin has ...

Why Palin?
Daimnation!This may explain it: ...The McCain campaign is hoping and praying that someone will say that Palin is unready for the job. “Please,” John McCain is praying right now AS I TYPE, “Let a Democrat say that an executive with 2 years of experience and no foreign policy expertise isn’t ready for the presidency. Oh pretty please. Because you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take that soundbite, put it in an ad, slap Obama’s mug up there, and run it over and over and over again.” [via Andrew Sullivan] Damian P.

Obama Campaign Attacks Palin
Weekly Standard Blog — ... John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman. Jen Rubin calls the "town of 9,000" line "bittergate II"; Sonny Bunch writes: “Please,” John McCain is praying right now AS I TYPE, “Let ...

Sarah Palin and Experience
small dead animals — ... experience, meaning experience in running either a business or a government, than either Barack Obama or his running mate, Joe Biden. She has more executive experience than even her running mate, John McCain. Governor Palin served as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1999 to 2002. She was elected as President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. She was elected as Governor of Alaska in 2006. And she has quite a few concrete achievements, considering the amount of time she's been in office. Double Think: The McCain campaign is hoping and praying that someone will say that Palin is ...

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