tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post7274390463427182379..comments2023-12-18T12:18:21.824-05:00Comments on POLITIZINE.COM: Rethinking Sarah Palin and everyday commonsenseTonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08248633195693368939noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-65441333480933373622008-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:002008-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:00Ronald Reagan was responsible for all of this mess...Ronald Reagan was responsible for all of this mess. Just ask him.<BR/><BR/>heheheAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-71544816665094422512008-10-09T09:54:00.000-04:002008-10-09T09:54:00.000-04:00Hi Philanoia: Thanks for reading and responding ag...Hi Philanoia: Thanks for reading and responding again. <BR/><BR/>So I guess you aren't voting for Barack Obama then, right, since his experience is as limited as her experience? <BR/><BR/>In measuring real life experience, Sarah Palin has as much diversity of experience as he has had. The difference is that she isn't at the top of the ticket and he is. She is a small business owner, has been a mayor and governor. Unlike Obama, she has an understanding of what it is like to deal with a payroll. Unlike Obama, who was a state Senator and U.S. Senator, Palin has actually had to physically balance budgets, over and over again. She was on ethics and oversight boards, exposed corruption in her own party, and was a working journalist which easily compares to his experience as a law student and community activist. Her diversity of experience compared to his is actually pretty amazing when you think about the office of vice president - whose only Constitutional requirement is to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate.<BR/><BR/>While they are both parents, Palin has actually physically reared children, which I think, at least on a mental level, is a bit higher life experience. <BR/><BR/>Look, I don't agree with a lot of Palin's politics at all. I'm not voting for McCain-Palin. But my opinion of her is not blinded by partisan politics, rhetoric, or class bigotry. The fact that a relatively obscure governor, a normal person like Sarah Palin, is plucked out of nowhere to be a heartbeat away from the presidency [assuming McCain-Palin win, which looks unlikely] is a great thing for our country. Not taking what is perceived to be the traditional path - go to an ivy league school, get educated by elitists who have never had real day jobs and no nothing about what is really going on, listening to their schemes and theories which have wrecked the country, etc. - is refreshing. She got their from hard work, perseverance, and yeah, admittedly, good looks. <BR/><BR/>Lastly, as I have said before, I will take everyday commonsense over some of the things a supposedly educated Joe Biden has done - bad trade deals, media consolidation, a horrible bankruptcy bill and being in the pocket of the banks and credit card industry for his entire career. Biden isn't "change we can believe in" and Obama's agenda is like putting a Band-Aid on brain surgery. It's just not good enough and I'm not wasting my vote on them.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248633195693368939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-61872973306572878642008-10-09T09:24:00.000-04:002008-10-09T09:24:00.000-04:00Having 'access to power' is a bit different than b...Having 'access to power' is a bit different than being Vice President, wouldn't you say? Sure, I want the people who "build, serve and clean" the country to have access to power, but I don't want them to be the Veep unless they also have considerable political experience. Call me a class bigot, I don't care, but I truly believe that the idea that just about anybody can be a national representative is dangerous. I admit that insider-ism (for lack of a better word) presents its own set of problems, but at the end of the day I do, in fact, want someone with formalized training being my Veep, senator, etc. Perhaps this is a very important, fundamental point of disagreement in America. And my opinion - which is clearly shared by a vast majority of Americans - is that Palin simply isn't qualified. I can't believe that some people believe otherwise.philanoiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248630448530064615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-17276270555633919422008-10-07T00:11:00.000-04:002008-10-07T00:11:00.000-04:00Anon957: I seriously doubt that they hatch their p...Anon957: I seriously doubt that they hatch their plans together but so long as they are screwing things up, who knows. Whenever you see "bipartisanship" on anything, run, run, run the other way! It is almost always going to be a disaster for regular folks!Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248633195693368939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-74526947447461666802008-10-07T00:06:00.000-04:002008-10-07T00:06:00.000-04:00tony good point! i agree. both sides play games a...tony good point! i agree. both sides play games at our expense. i am beginning to wonder if they hatch plans together to play both sides of the coin; each side profiting from different angles.<BR/><BR/>Anon957Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-6182034673831559112008-10-06T23:58:00.000-04:002008-10-06T23:58:00.000-04:00Hey philanoia: No, I'm not kidding. That was my in...Hey philanoia: No, I'm not kidding. That was my initial reaction to her debate performance. <BR/>In addition, I don't think the vice president needs to know every little thing about everything. And, I would trade one candidate who reportedly knows every little thing about everything with someone who has some everyday commonsense, any day of the week. <BR/>Amazingly, your class bigotry shines right through. Heaven forbid the people who build, serve, and clean this country have any access to power.<BR/><BR/>Anon957: Technically, I blame both political parties. There is enough blame to go around but the fact is that both political parties have brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy. <BR/>If you want to be true about it, you can look at Reagan and the Democrats in Congress who first started all this stuff. Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 continued it. And when the Democrats swept into office, they didn't do a thing. They hemmed and hawed around and continued funding the worst of the Bush policies. It's pathetic.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248633195693368939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-6696956374739399702008-10-06T21:57:00.000-04:002008-10-06T21:57:00.000-04:00Before blaming Clinton it might be worth your time...Before blaming Clinton it might be worth your time looking up Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and who repealed it in 1999. See what everyone forgets is rethuglicans were in control of congress through most of the Clinton administrations so, who was actually approving all these lending law changes? Yep, you guessed it people like John McCain and his Keating 5 friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-11481522530751214702008-10-04T15:14:00.000-04:002008-10-04T15:14:00.000-04:00"I found her nervousness and lack of specifics abo..."I found her nervousness and lack of specifics about things she knows nothing about to be a fresh perspective..."<BR/><BR/>You're kidding, right? What you're saying is that you find her lack of knowledge about things that a VICE PRESIDENT SHOULD KNOW to be a 'fresh perspective'? Yeah, to heck with all those smarty-pants book-learners. Hell, let's just pick presidents and VPs out of a hat using only those names of people who are middle class joe-six-packs. And while we're at it, let's look into whether a whole bunch of other jobs which were thought to require book-learnin' smarts could just as well be performed by, well, anybody. I don't want to hear some know-it-all blather on and on about foreign policy, economics, etc., when I could hear (for example) my neighbor's opinion. He's a regular guy! What a fresh perspective.philanoiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16248630448530064615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-627316458337924472008-10-04T14:41:00.000-04:002008-10-04T14:41:00.000-04:00YES! Her unbiased judgement will be good.Somehow, ...YES! Her unbiased judgement will be good.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, a narcissistic black man who hates his own mother because she is white and who is controlled by Soros and Brzezinski scares me far too much NOT to vote for Sarah.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056640.post-33608757011298952008-10-04T13:29:00.000-04:002008-10-04T13:29:00.000-04:00It sounds like its time to hit the job boards whil...It sounds like its time to hit the job boards while there are still great jobs.<BR/><BR/>www.linkedin.com (professional networking)<BR/>www.indeed.com (aggregated job listings)<BR/>www.realmatch.com (matches you to jobs)<BR/><BR/>Good luck to those looking.Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06546065842576113809noreply@blogger.com