Is Palin really qualified?

[Nitrogen]

Here's a question for you.

Ability or Experience.

Given the option, which would you choose?

I'd pick ability.

Well, I don't think she has the ability either.
But that's my opinion.

[ronnyreagan]

Biden has been on the public teat since before age 30, when he was elected to the Senate.  He has made in excess of $100K for decades.  He owns a 6000+sqft mansion on 6+ acres in Delaware worth millions.  Yet, his net worth is less than Palin's at $150K.

If only Biden had followed McCain's example - he's been on "the public teat" his entire life, cheated on his first wife and married into money. That is how it's meant to be done 

[agricola]

If only Biden had followed McCain's example - he's been on "the public teat" his entire life, cheated on his first wife and married into money. That is how it's meant to be done 

There is being on the public teat sat on your arse in Congress, and then there is being on the public teat getting shot at, tortured and sat in an A4 on the burning deck of an aircraft carrier.  One is considerably tougher than the other - can you guess which?

[ronnyreagan]

There is being on the public teat sat on your arse in Congress, and then there is being on the public teat getting shot at, tortured and sat in an A4 on the burning deck of an aircraft carrier.  One is considerably tougher than the other - can you guess which?

I agree there is a difference, but both are still "the public teat". Even excluding McCain's military service he's been suckling longer.

[roo_ster]

I agree there is a difference, but both are still "the public teat". Even excluding McCain's military service he's been suckling longer.

Uh, wrong.

Biden was elected to Wilmington city council in 1970 and to the US Senate in 1972, at age 30, while McCain was still a POW in Vietnam.  McCain was first elected to office in 1982.  So, excluding McCain's military service, Biden has 12 years on McCain, 10 of that federale.

[ronnyreagan]

Uh, wrong.

Biden was elected to Wilmington city council in 1970 and to the US Senate in 1972, at age 30, while McCain was still a POW in Vietnam.  McCain was first elected to office in 1982.  So, excluding McCain's military service, Biden has 12 years on McCain, 10 of that federale.

You're right, my math was wrong. McCain has been sucking off the public teat for his entire life, but less of it was in done in Washington than Joe Biden.  I guess that's something he has going for him.

[Tallpine]

Here's a question for you.

Ability or Experience.

Given the option, which would you choose?

I'd pick ability.

Overall, I would pick someone with values and a world view that is at least somewhat similar to mine. 

I don't particularly want someone with ability and/or experience in leading us down a road over a cliff 

[Perd Hapley]

But there is free stuff at the bottom of the cliff.  What's the problem? 

[agricola]

But there is free stuff at the bottom of the cliff.  What's the problem? 

Lemmings are socialist animals.

 

[Perd Hapley]

Tallpine is a reactionary bourgeois oppressor, who keeps the people from falling off the cliff.  He is the enemy.

[RocketMan]

This has been hashed over elsewhere in many other threads here.  The arguments are getting old.

And we have settled exactly what, in this rehashing of the subject?
Geez, this stuff gets old.

[MechAg94]

People are just looking for something to bitch about.

[longeyes]

Maybe a better question is how many Americans are "really qualified?"

Half this country is lost, probably terminally.

Great leadership without a great people is an empty concept.

[MicroBalrog]

Maybe a better question is how many Americans are "really qualified?"

Half this country is lost, probably terminally.

Great leadership without a great people is an empty concept.

Just because some people vote for guys you don't like doesn't mean Americans are not a great people.

Americans are the guys who build spacecraft in their back yards and fly them. To space.

Americans are the guys who build fusion reactors for school science projects, and the things work.

Americans are the people who own a full 30% of the world's guns.

There are third-world nations where members of the US military are literally worshipped as gods.

These things would not be possible if American culture were not, at its core, great.

Do not, I repeat, discount the world's greatest nation because the wrong people are in charge.

[nobody's_hero]

I think I found the qualification. It has something to do with this:



I think they're supposed to "uphold it" or "defend it" or something like that.

[Perd Hapley]

And nobody's hero provides the definitive answer.  Not that Palin is a Constitutional scholar, or will perfectly uphold the document, but she's a whole lot closer than the other three principals.  This thread is over.

[ArfinGreebly]

This thread is over.

Second the motion.

The motion has been seconded.

All in favor?

[RocketMan]

Aye.

[Perd Hapley]

[seeker_two]

....for now....

[Monkeyleg]

The ayes have it.