Palin says she's ready to step in as president

Friday 12th September, 06:57 AM JST

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Philosophy187 at 01:13 PM JST - 17th September

Will he be,

Doesn't matter the war is illegal any way.

Look it up. - or be the next sucker to go! - Don't misunderstand me I blame the parents.
Nessie at 03:25 PM JST - 17th September

Palin is ready and willing to lead. Just because she is a woman, the Liberals put her down. Give her a chance she has a great record.

Yeah, I'm sure liberals would've given her book-banning inquiry as pass if she'd been a man.
HankHillUSA at 03:33 PM JST - 17th September

Palin is good and ready to serve as VP and if need be president.

She has a successfull career, has reached great heights at a young age, and has also been able to nurture a perfect family.

Wow!! what candidate can touch her skills?
WilliB at 07:00 PM JST - 17th September

It is strange how the discussion has suddenly turned to "experience". This woman is running only for VP and has more experience than then guy from the other party who runs for President, so how come the Democrat side gets away with using this as talking point? Of course, a sympathetic media corps helps.
AlfGarnett at 07:10 PM JST - 17th September

Why shouldn't Palin do alright. They don'r really do anything, advisers tell thyem what to do and say, so it don`t matter who wins it.
jwills79 at 06:55 PM JST - 18th September

WilliB,

The discussion has turned to experience because the Republicans made it so. They have been selling themselves as the experienced ticket. If you call yourself something then people will start to dissect it. Do you really think being the closes US territory to Russia gives a person foreign policy experience? If their claims about her experience wasn't so outlandish then it would not be scrutinized.

Besides everyone keeps saying it's not fair to attack her personal life. They should attack her record and experience. They are not doing a dirty campaign like McCain's group who seems to be caught telling lies or half truths almost everyday.
jwills79 at 06:58 PM JST - 18th September

WilliB,

The little executive experience she does have which is quite short is already riddle with scandal. The investigations about her started before she was even considered for VP.
Alinsky4prez at 07:05 PM JST - 18th September

Barack was a neighborhood activist. He was above working in the private sector, for profit. He was editor of the law review at Harvard, but he never published anything. Because he was above litigation and choosing sides. The rubes and the people in Fly Over country don't understand. Thats why they like this palin woman. Alaska is where THEY are mentally. Joe Biden had to explain it to a Michigan audience yesterday:

"All this stuff about how different Barack Obama is, they're not just used to somebody really smart. They're just not used to somebody who's really well educated. They just don't know quite how to handle it. Cause if he's as smart as Barack is he must not be from my neighborhood."
zurcronium at 09:57 PM JST - 18th September

Palin who?

No one cares about the snow queen anymore, the single most unqualifed candidate for higher office in modern times.

Its the economy stupid! Palin comes for a federalized state that exists on welfare and oil. Next!

In a few weeks she can go back to her state and fire more state troopers who divorce his family members.
zurcronium at 10:24 PM JST - 18th September

wow, this woman has got the george bush disease . . .

MSNBC peeped a preview of tonight's tete-a-tete between vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Fox "pundint" (to use Palin's term) Sean Hannity, which is sure to be the Frost/Nixon of mutual candy-foam fawnery. Here's the exchange they shared:

HANNITY: Senator Barack Obama yesterday was attacking Senator McCain for saying that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Do you believe that the fundamentals of our economy are strong?

PALIN: Well, it was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use. The fundamentals that he was having to explain afterwards, he means the work force, he means ingenuity of the American people. And of course, that is strong, that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack based on verbiage that John McCain used. Certainly, it is a mess, though.

Verbiage? Is she speaking Alaskan?
jwills79 at 06:17 AM JST - 19th September

Now that the hype about her is dying down, people are starting look past the glamour. They are hearing some familiar "verbiage" right out of the Bush doctrine. See everybody she does know what the Bush doctrine is.

Recent major polls show those that went to McCain after the convention bounce are moving back to Obama. He has 3-4 point lead in most of them.
Sarge at 06:57 AM JST - 19th September

"the single most unqualified candidate for higher office in modern times"

That would be Barck Obama. Zero executive experience.

jwills - How come Obama doesn't have at least a 20 point lead over the old man?
LFRAgain at 07:12 AM JST - 19th September

"Verbiage?" Sounds like Palin's hitting the dictionary for her material.
SezWho2 at 09:26 AM JST - 20th September

Sarge,

If Obama is "the single most unqualified candidate for higher office in modern times", how come McCain doesn't have a lead over him?
Taka313 at 09:51 AM JST - 20th September

In all fairness...Gov. Palin IS acting presidential.

She's trying to suppress an investigation, is stone-walling when asked to provide information regarding her emails and can't even field softball questions.

So...yeah, she's acting presidential. Unfortunately, she's acting like (arguably) the worst one we've ever had.

Taka