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Originally Posted by tony404
(Post 14748246)
the right wing media would of had a field day with Hilary. They were very easy on her during the primary, I think they were waiting for her win and then they were going to pounce hard.
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Not only that. I doubt she had any intention of being VP. Hillary is President material, Palin is not. I'm surprised that Biden hasn't jumped all over Palin (since that would be his fight, Obama should ignore the entire Palin fiasco), but maybe Biden is getting the facts in order and waiting to rip ass during the debates.
I watched the 20/20 interview with Palin tonight. Biden is going to have to force the whole "Maverick" line out of the Republican campaign.
1) She supported the bridge to nowhere until Congress killed it. She accepted the funds anyway, and put $48 million of it toward a Road To Nowhere (a road you can only see from the sky) in Alaska. That's not smaller responsible government or actions of a reformist. This is beauracracy.
2) She reduced lots of taxes but increased sales tax and left her city $13 million in debt. So you pay less taxes but you're now in the red. That's not responsible government. Alaska gets more money per capita than any other state in America - $1.44 for every $1 spent. That's your money. She has an 80% approval rating because she's likable and I believe also because she taxes oil revenues which allows her to give Alaskan households $1200+ a year. Who doesn't like free money?
3) She was not opposed to earmarks. She spearheaded the effort to get earmarks for Alaksa and got them handily, more than ten times the dollar amount per Alaskan citizen than Obama's home state. Reformist? Nope.
4) Towing Bush lines on foreign policy and terrorists.
5) Unable to provide any policy or change that her ticket will implement that is different from the Bush administration in terms of foreign policy, economy, and so forth.
I think Biden has an opportunity to slice and dice Palin not only on personal issues (which may or may not be relevant necessarily) such as her view on abortion, Creationism, Global Warming, but on all the larger issues like economy, war, outlined above. The military is growing thinner with every new front we take on - now we're in Pakistan, Afghanistan is getting out of control, Iran is stronger now than before the war, Iraq is not at the point of political reconciliation and rebuilding as of yet (I won't keep my fingers crossed on it either; Israel has the best military and tech in the world yet faces continuous suicide bombings after 40+ years. Occupation of Iraq can't be won militarily, if at all by modern methods).
Palin is smart and capable, but ironically I think she needs some time in Washington to know how it works, and to familiarize herself with foreign policy positions. And let's be truthful, no candidate on either ticket is going to bring radical change.
Strangely, I have less concern about the quasi-economy we're now living in (which most polled said they're concerned about. I say quasi because of the growing national debt and all-time high living off credit for Americans) and more concern about foreign policy and war. The economy will bounce back. Yet it seems that powerful interests in Washington are going to have America chasing bad guys all over the place and helping to free Democratic foreign states from the shackles of tyrrants for some time.
I'll revise the above. Their are issues seemingly out of mind and out of sight in these campaigns that Lou Dobbs talks about all the time which are of some concern: National Debt, Immigration and Broken Borders.
