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September 01, 2008

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"I'm pensive and withdrawn,
uneasy as boundless seas
or perennial mountain winds."

I haven't seen that in her yet.

"I'm inept, thoroughly useless and backward..."
can be a blunt weapon as well as an excuse.

I guess your plea to not mention Obama betrays the fearful reality that he himself is a poor candidate.
So, why should anyone answer without bringing up Obama's own serious lack of executive experience when it is the more relevant issue?
Not even a full senate term and no other high public office makes one experienced to be President in this day and age?
Who is actually running for President in this election? It's not Palin.

But, if your main criterion is primarily to vote for a military Commander-in-Chief and not an executive to run the country, then the obvious choice is to vote for McCain.

Thus, to answer your question, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is as ready to be President as the Democratic Presdiential candidate.

Rather than adopt your judgmentalism as to McCain's choice, he and Palin seem to be a more complementary team in a positive way.

Bruce,
I am happy to debate Obama's bone fides. He is obviously engaged and informed on foreign policy. He took the right position on Iraq, which has obviously been a strategic mistake for the US. I know the Republican talking point now is that things are settling down there now. And they are, militarily. But a fuller understanding of the nature of war, and its inevitable link to political conditions (Clausewitz anyone?), leads to a less sanguine view of the situation there. Simply put: what will happen now that the Shiite government is turning on the Sunni "Sons of Iraq," which had been the political foundation in Anbar and elsewhere? And what about the Kurds, who are getting restless over Kirkuk? Political conditions are very fraught and could cause an explosion of violence. Iraq is far from settled. Any yet we bleed hundreds of billions of dollars there, and thousands and thousands of lives. McCain does not have a strategy there; he has a vague frustration to try to achieve some notion of "honor" that was missing from Vietnam. He is striving for a past that never existed. Not a sound basis for foreign policy. Oh, and he wants to get tougher with Iran with a US military that has been depleted and weakened by the Iraq fiasco.
McCain is all bluster, no strategy. He has no sense of the limits of American power and an obvious reckless streak. Obama is the better choice.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinions. But changing the subject to Obama does not solve the Palin problem. The question remains: is she prepared to be Commander-in-Chief right now? She clearly is not. Which means all the Republican talk about the gravity and centrality of the "war on terror" is all political posturing. McCain is not a man of principle, as he makes himself out to be, he is merely a political calculator working desperately to gain power.

problem is, that the sage knows he/she is inept, stupid and more so. Mrs Palin doesn't, she thinks she's good and capable
ohh, perhaps you're right, the good sage doesn't know how inept and stupid she is.

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