SURPRISE : SARAH PALIN

SURPRISE : SARAH PALIN

August 29th, 2008
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

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Patrick Chappatte, Le Temps, Switzerland

This entry was posted on Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm and is filed under John McCain, Democratic Party, Vice President, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Cartoon Commentary, 2008 Elections, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Politics. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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pacatrue 2 months ago 1 point
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Dang, what's up with that artist and the teeth?

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Silhouette 2 months ago 0 points
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She's beautiful so they have to super-exaggerate anything they can to undo it...

I've heard an argument that people won't want Palin because of the chance McSame could croak or become unfit in office.

I would say that this is the appeal of Palin to former Clinton supporters..

Think about it : )

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JSpencer 2 months ago 1 point
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Silhoutte, the irony of that would be if McCain just got older and more quirky during his disasterous first term, after which Palin would fade into obscurity (Alaska) ;-) Btw, I agree, the cartoon bears no resemblance to the woman.

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 2 points
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McCain certainly seemed to put politics ahead of the good of the country today. Let's hope voters notice.

McCain had previously said in his search for veep that he was "finding the person most qualified to step in and assume the presidency." Can anyone argue that Palin meets that description?

She's not even close.

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BBQ 2 months ago -1 points
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And yet she is still more qualified than Obama. Ain't that irony.

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ChrisWWW 2 months ago 1 point
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BBQ,
No, it's not ironic, because it's not true. But it is funny watching you and other rightwingers try to pretend it is.

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BBQ 2 months ago 0 points
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I'll take 1.5 years of Governor over 1.5 years as Senator. Yeah his state senate seat beats being mayor of a small town but people really aren't interested in what they did at that level. It's funny watching you lefties get all huffy about inexperience when your candidate was the most inexperienced of the election. Also she is running for number 2 not the top spot. But yeah it's now a wash and so was the change motto when Obama brought in consummate Washington Insider Biden into the ticket.

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ryan 2 months ago 1 point
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It's funny watching you lefties get all huffy about inexperience when your candidate was the most inexperienced of the election.

I don't know if I'm a "lefty", but "experience" is the wrong word. Obama has demonstrated good judgment on a number of occasions - the obvious example is his comments prior to the Iraq war, but there are many others including the fact that he put together a team that won a campaign against a seemingly invincible candidate during the primaries.

Along with 99.9% of the country I don't know much about Palin's judgment, but from what little I've seen, when compared with Obama her record does appear to be very thin. That said, expectations are very low, so if she gets out on the campaign trail and blows everyone away then her addition will be a massive boost to the McCain ticket. If she comes across as unprepared, however, McCain's chances may sink with her.

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kritt11 2 months ago 1 point
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I agree with Chris-- after finding out he only met her once! What happened to "country first"?

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Chazz 2 months ago 1 point
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Wow. … And now the Blogosphere is ripe with the pregnant rumor that her new son is not actually hers, but rather her daughters… and there seems to be legs on this dog.

And if it turns out to be a little left wing shot over the McCain bow? Too bad. It is LONG past the time for a little “Rovian/Limbaugh” torpedo-lie payback….. let the republicans know how it feels for a change…

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yossie 2 months ago 1 point
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Maybe experience isn't the way to measure someone's ability and judgment-BUSH H