Start Packing Sarah

[spot]

Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg

While experience was an issue, now the problem is age....McCain is 72. His father only lived to be 70. Life expectancy for U.S. males is 76.

Don't we have an actuary on site? Life expectancy for U.S. males may be 76 at birth. Life expectancy for 72 year old white U.S. males who aren't alcoholics is around another 16 years. When you're discussing an individual you look at the individual, not newborns.

Palin's another Reagan in the making. I'm not sure the planet can cope with two of those in the same lifetime.

[yaaarrrgg]

Originally Posted by Clint

You say McCain is showing signs of sinility. Are you and doctor and have you examined him?

I didn't avoid your question at all. Biden has spent his whole political carreer telling others what decisions they should make and voting with his party. The Governor has more experience making executive decisions in governing than Biden and Obama combined. Obama is full of opinions but he has never been in charge of anything.

Well then maybe she should be at the top of the ticket. By your math, McCain has no executive experience either. She's got more than Obama, McCain, and Biden put together. It might only be 20 months, but that's the best we got. We are doomed.

[double helix]

Hello everyone, its me DH from Anchorage, Alaska. Umm yeah, I've met Sarah. She really is as she presents herself. One month after getting into office she started clearing out the corruption between the oil moguls and politicians.
While at a Governors conference she went into labor with her son Conner, got on a commercial flight home and arrived just in time to have her baby. She told only her husband that she was in labor. Three days later she was back to work.
She put together a pipeline deal that is fair and balanced and doesn't pander to the oil powers. She did this after three-four administrations before her couldn't and she did it by telling the big oil conglomerates NO!
So, can Sarah lead this country if McCain should die. You bet she can!
I guess you all know where my vote is going in November!

[yaaarrrgg]

Originally Posted by spot

Don't we have an actuary on site? Life expectancy for U.S. males may be 76 at birth. Life expectancy for 72 year old white U.S. males who aren't alcoholics is around another 16 years. When you're discussing an individual you look at the individual, not newborns.

Palin's another Reagan in the making. I'm not sure the planet can cope with two of those in the same lifetime.

You've also got to factor him being tortured for 5 years .. he probably should be dead several times over.

Parent longevity is also a good predictor ... I've listened to his 90 yo mother and she's not all there.

Presidency also ages a person mentally and physically.

When you add in that he can't remember simple things, like how many houses he has, or names of countries, it's not looking very good. Picking Palin is a good example of his mental decline.... he just destroyed every good reason for voting for him.

[spot]

Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg

You've also got to factor him being tortured for 5 years .. he probably should be dead several times over.

Parent longevity is also a good predictor ... I've listened to his 90 yo mother and she's not all there.

Presidency also ages a person mentally and physically.

When you add in that he can't remember simple things, like how many houses he has, or names of countries, it's not looking very good. Picking Palin is a good example of his mental decline.... he just destroyed every good reason for voting for him.

Thank you yaaarrrgg. Reagan was demented too and that made no difference to his administration. Presidents don't do anything except front the people they put in place. They used to. Nixon did. Carter did. Even Gerald Ford did. Bush 2 didn't. Clinton and Bush 1 were team players within their own administration teams. Reagan gave preferences at intervals but his team went its own way a lot of the time.

[nvalleyvee]

Originally Posted by Clint

I'm not crazy about McCain's choice but the fact is she has more executive and governing experience than Obama and Biden combined. She was making executive decisions while Obiden was making speeches about how others should make decisions.

OH Thank you........I thought it was a brilliant move.

No matter what.......a minority gets elected into office!!!

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg

When you add in that he can't remember simple things, like how many houses he has, or names of countries, it's not looking very good.

And Obama said he's visited 57 states and planned to see them all before the campaign was done, and thought he was in St Louis when he was in Kansas City. Is he senile too?

I like the Alaskan spirit. On the little I've heard of Palin, I'd be more inclined to vote for her than for Obama.

[along-for-the-ride]

Was the general public even aware that she was in the running as Vice-President? His choice was a surprise to me as one of the "general public". Who is she? (I have since found out more info about her.) I was not surprised, however , in him choosing a "minority" Vice-President. But for those voters who are happy with the status quo..........this may be a tough decision.

[mikeinie]

Well I don't hear anyone talking about Obama's running mate.
From an outider point of view, an interesting move. It could swing it his way.
Hell she should run for the President, never mind McCain.
A hot politician! It should become the norm.

[yaaarrrgg]

Originally Posted by Accountable

And Obama said he's visited 57 states and planned to see them all before the campaign was done, and thought he was in St Louis when he was in Kansas City. Is he senile too?

I like the Alaskan spirit. On the little I've heard of Palin, I'd be more inclined to vote for her than for Obama.

For every one flub that Obama makes, there are ten major brain farts from McCain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bbcavYX_hw

When people ask him questions, notes he launches into his stump speech. When he's forced to veer off into something that requires actual reasoning, he'll resort to humor, else many of his answers have a vague feeling of confusion.