Palin goes "off script to voice frustrations she had shared with her husband" (another Obama attack)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Palin Suggests Executive Experience Is Key Presidential Attribute

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry4566778.shtml



Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Missouri statehouse in Jefferson City, Mo. Monday, Nov. 3, 2008. A statue of Thomas Jefferson is at right.
(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

(JEFFERSON CITY, MO.) - Here on her second stop of a six-rally final day of the campaign, Sarah Palin briefly went off script to question whether a United States senator has the right kind of experience to be president.

Palin set up her remarks with a familiar attack on Barack Obama’s relative newcomer status.

“If you think about it, Barack Obama’s record, what is in his record?” she asked the crowd of over 15,000 who were gathered around the state capitol. “What has he accomplished? He spent about 300 days in the U.S. Senate before becoming a presidential candidate.”

Then Palin went off script to voice the frustrations she had shared with her husband.

“Todd and I were talking about this, has he ever wielded a veto pen?” she asked. “Has he ever had to make the tough decisions on how to govern best for the people whom he should be held accountable to?”

Neither Obama nor Palin’s running mate, John McCain, has ever been in a position to veto a bill, as Palin has in her role as governor of Alaska. Still, Palin said that McCain had the right kind of experience needed to be president.

“He is untested, as his own running mate said, throughout the primaries Joe Biden said, ‘You’re not ready for the presidency,’” Palin said. “And his other opponents in the primary, too, said, ‘You’re not ready to be the president.’ Now John McCain is. We need a leader who is ready on day one.”

[Alter Ego]

1. Oh, Sarah, you fucking retard you.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. You know, it's taken all of my personal strength to keep from using the "R" word with her.

Perhaps I should just let fly.

[JuniperLea]

24. I keep wanting to say...

Sarah, you ignorant bitch! ala SNL News...

[Alter Ego]

2. Double post.

[Mooney]

8. It bears repeating.

Sarah Palin is a fucking moron. That there is even a shred of possibility that she might become vice president chills my blood. So shout it from the rafters.

[ecstatic]

3. She's too dumb to realize she threw McShame under the bus too

with her rant.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. I love her "linear" logic.

1). Anyone who hasn't wielded a veto pen can;t be president

2). Obama hasn't wielded a veto pen

3). Obama isn't qualified to be president

4). McCain hasn't wielded a veto pen

5). But McCain has the Right Stuff, oh, you betcha by golly!

After tomorrow Sarah can sit around with Todd and vent about all KINDS of stuff.

:rofl:

[TrogL]

25. It's called 'dualism'

Freepers are trained to keep two divergent thoughts in their mind at the same time and find no incompatability. It's the core of Fundamentalist Christianity.

[Why Syzygy]

32. Oh I think she knew. She is that kind of shrew. nt

[SuperTrouper]

4. Sarah, 59% of America thinks that you are unqualified, you are a charlatan and

40% of America will not support you in 2012 if you decide to run. My dear Sarah, you are the most hated politician in America. Go back to Alaska!

[livetohike]

5. I can't wait to be rid of this wannabe, her smirking husband and

her tag-along family. One more day, one more day...

[dennis4868]

20. I agree...

By the way, your Steelers are going down tonight...GO SKINS!

[livetohike]

26. Aaargh!

If the bad-Ben shows up, your team will win :-(. However, if the good-Ben shows up, we will crush you :-).

[dennis4868]

28. If the great Clinton Portis shows up...

we will crush you, if the good Clinton Portis shows up we will win by a few...

[livetohike]

31. If the good Pgh defense shows up we will stuff Clinton Portis

:-), if the bad Pgh. defense shows up, we won't :-(.

[nyhuskyfan]

6. Dole-Kemp

Executive experience is one of those things that only seems to be an issue of convenience. Same with military service. It was huge issue to the right until 2000, then it didn't matter so much.

[Alter Ego]

14. Except I don't think Kemp was an utterly retarded governor

of a state that had more caribou than people and thought he had foreign policy experience because Alaska was close to Russia.

[nyhuskyfan]

17. Exactly

Nobody thinks that was an unqualified ticket experience-wise, or that McCain lacks the needed experience either. Yet they drum up "executive experience" as if its something meaningful that you can't do without.

I've only been following elections since 1980 and I can't think of anyone who's experience is more flimsy.

[GodlessBiker]

7. The "ready on day one" thing again. That was used against Barack in the primaries. It didn't work.

[eshfemme]

10. Way to show off how you can't even fucking govern Alaska w/o your retarded husband Sarah!

You can't even do the full job of a city of a small town much less the governorship of one of the least populous states in the union and yet somehow that qualifies you to criticize Obama? I'm sure Obama gets Michelle's advice on stuff but not to the extent that you clearly rely on Todd Palin. No matter what depths these past 8 years have taken us, we are not electing people so that they bring along a shadow government.

I'm just so fucking disturbed by how a woman who's praised for being strong and all this crap can still so visibly be helpless without her just as unqualified and even worse, UNELECTED, husband's help. WTF? WTF? This is even worse than Cheney's BS! Sorry but I am just incoherent from the hypocrisy and ridiculousness of this woman.

[DFW]

11. Not-Sarkozy thinks she is ready to kill some baby seals

Now THERE'S some real qualification for the Oval Office.

[GoesTo11]

12. No veto pen, but Obama did pretty well when he spoke with Sarkozy!

[bdamomma]

13. oh she is really off track.

oh, she is not well and causing havoc, we really do not need her to be anywhere near the WH. She is promoting hate and division, among her cult people.

[WI_DEM]

15. I wonder how McCain feels about being upstaged by her. She gets a crowd of 15,000 while he gets

barely a 1000 people this morning in Tampa!

[bdamomma]

16. she really thinks it's Palin/McCain

[Karenina]

21. McCain's name was NOT on the signs

at a rally in FLA. IIRC Putnam was around...

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Has he ever wielded a veto pen? Or a lightsaber, for that matter?

He will pay the price for his lack of vision.

[genna]

22. I think all politicians who run weak, desperate and SHORT SIGHTED campaigns get a

moniker after their run.

They can do good works and be forgiven for being half cocked and crazy afterwards. But there is something that sticks to them after they do something like picking an unqualified disaster like Palin or walk around the edge of using code words to say HE'S BLACK! THAT SHOULD BE ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW!

[crossroads]

23. Peeps are not buying this fabricated BS! Read the comments...

below the article!
CR

[AspenRose]

27. She's running for 2012 or 2016

[grace0418]

29. Man, you'd think the LAST thing she's be criticizing another candidate about is lack

of experience. But then again, she is a total moron.

[donco6]

30. So what's so hard about wielding a veto pen?

Is it really, really heavy or something?

:sarcasm:

[Why Syzygy]

33. Gee. He never censored a library either.

Or shot animals from the air. Or abused his power. Or fired people for being ethical.
Or spoke at a secessionist convention. What else, Palin?

[Window]

34. Sarah, I can't wait until your monkey ass goes back to Alaska.