The point is, McCain has just lost his right to criticize Obama's inexperience. His VP pick only has two years experience on the national stage. Two! In Alaska, Bridge to Nowhere country! And he's already got a pro-business lady working for him. Too bad she ran HP into the ground before getting kicked out.
1. You just highlighted the fact that McCain completely regained the right to do so. The move highlights the fact that inexperience is okay for the VP slot...not the Presidential spot.
2. So she has two years on the national stage...and she is running for VP. Obama has three years on the national stage and has been campaigning half that time...and he is running for Prez...
it is a perfect highlight...it says "inexperience belongs on the VP slot".
3. Alaska, bridge to nowhere? Kind of like Delaware...where Biden is from. Except Alaska is important in terms of energy...Delaware is not.
Besides, she was a governer...very different from senator. Four of our last 5 presidents were governors first.
I understand that it was more of a strategic pick in order to court disenfranchised HRC voters, but McCain sorely underestimated the Clinton speeches during DNC week. HRC neatly addressed and answered to the historical moment of having a woman go as far as she did in a heated primary contest, and all the pundit talk about having a "catharsis" happened.
1. HOw exactly did it happen? No polls have showed anything to suggest that, and there are still a portion of Hillary supporters who are undecided. Just cause you have a speech in a stadium and confetti and fireworks does not mean everything is okay, no matter what party you support.
No uproar, but an actual believeable commitment to support Obama and to take McCain to the debate table. And, honestly, should the worst happen to McCain (does the Sign of the Cross), what the hell is Purin gonna do?
I don't know what kinda advice his advisers are giving him, but it's pretty scary.
1. Oh how so? Pick a smart, capable woman to fill the less important slot, she appeals to 50% of the population from a gender standpoint (even if they may not agree wit hher politics) She is not a Washington insider.
She highlights that inexperience is okay for VP but not for PRez. She has 5 children and is a working mom, running a state, and has not been campaigining at all.
Oh, and on top of that? She puts the human face on McCain...the soft side, fair or not...Biden is not soft and human looking/talking.
When Biden attacks her, like it or not, some gender bias will come in to play, and it will look like a mean old white washington insider, attacking a novice, reform minded, working mom, who has run a state while Biden has been in the senate dining room.
She is outdoorsy and vibrant (loves to fish and hunt)
on top of it...one of her children is a "special needs" child. That goes a long way in appealing to mothers of all types...and men as well.
she will be able to put the human side on the MCCain campaign, which it lacked...i can hear her speaking already about the difficulties working women face with kids in school or with special needs...
neither Obama or Biden or McCain can do that.
Still, I can't WAIT for Biden to jump all over this the moment McCain says a damn thing about inexperience. Or a strorng economy. Or $5 million making you rich.