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Well, lets start with Herman, please explain why Pee Wee Herman is qualified to be Vice President of the United States and Sarah Palin is not qualifed.
Well, lets start with Herman, please explain why Pee Wee Herman is qualified to be Vice President of the United States and Sarah Palin is not qualifed.
No. The real reason no one wants to discuss Tim Kaine's qualifications is because he wasn't picked. Obama did not pick Tim Kaine, so it's kinda pointless discussing the qualifications of someone that the presidential nominee decided wasn't the man for the job.
The Republican presidential nominee chose someone for VP who has questionable qualifications for the position (to put it mildly). The Democratic nominee did not. I don't know how much more obvious I can make it.
Hey, your the one thats suggesting that Kaine was not selected because he was unqualified. If Team Obama really thought Kaine was unqualified, how the hell did he make it into the top 3 of his picks?
Thinking about someone and choosing someone as VP are two totally different things. You think they're the same. You act is if he might as well have picked Kaine just because Kaine was considered. It's totally different.
You could say the same think about the President. When you vote for either Obama or McCain in November, your also voting for the VP as well. You vote for the ticket, there is no individual election for the President.
The fact that so many of these questions about qualifications and being prepared go unanswered just goes to show that the criticisms of Palin are simply politically motivated and not really based on objective facts.
Clintons, Tim Kaines and even Obama's relative lack of experience is rather obvious, and even if an arguement could be made that they had more experience than Governor Palin just prior to running for P/VP or being considered for the ticket, you could not honestly argue those small differences made them qualified and Governor Palin not qualifed.
Your whole argument around Tim Kaine all but admits that Sarah Palin is not ready as well. The whole way you frame it basically says "well yeah, she's not ready, but neither was he!"
So here you have it, Sting. I will come out and say that I don't think Tim Kaine was the best choice. I think he we would be far less ready to assume the presidency as Joe Biden. I will go out and say he wouldn't be ready to assume the presidency.
That being said, let's get back to Sarah Palin, who as your Kaine argument implies, is not the most ready of candidates for VP either. Since she's so obviously unready, how the hell did Sarah Palin make it to the TOP of McCain's picks?
As for Kaine: here's my idea, stolen from none other than Karl Rove. Tim Kaine was on the list because he may have been a shrewd political choice to make - ie it would help him win Virginia but may not have been the best choice for the role a VP plays. Kind of like Sarah Palin. Obama at some point realized that, hey, maybe Kaine wouldn't be the right choice because he doesn't fulfill that essential VP role - readiness to take over as president should the need arise, as Joe Biden does. And Obama made the correct choice from a governance perspective, whereas John McCain did not.
As for Kaine: here's my idea, stolen from none other than Karl Rove. Tim Kaine was on the list because he may have been a shrewd political choice to make - ie it would help him win Virginia but may not have been the best choice for the role a VP plays. Kind of like Sarah Palin. Obama at some point realized that, hey, maybe Kaine wouldn't be the right choice because he doesn't fulfill that essential VP role - readiness to take over as president should the need arise, as Joe Biden does. And Obama made the correct choice from a governance perspective, whereas John McCain did not.
Thinking about someone and choosing someone as VP are two totally different things. You think they're the same. You act is if he might as well have picked Kaine just because Kaine was considered. It's totally different.
This is pointless.
i can think of 1441 reasons why Palin was a purely political pick.
thusly demonstrating that it is Obama who made the responsible, presidential pick, and John McCain did not.
it is quite obvious who is ready to be president, and who is not.
Presidential nominees choose their Vice Presidents from a list
The fact that Obama did not pick Kaine only shows that he thought Biden was the better choice for him either politically or professionally. It does not imply in any way that he thought Kaine was unqualified or not ready to be President. Presidential nominees choose their Vice Presidents from a list of qualified and prepared individuals.
But do you have the resolution to stand by them?
“Disappointed that taxpayers are called upon to bailout another one. Certainly AIG though with the construction bonds that they’re holding and with the insurance that they are holding very, very impactful to Americans so you know the shot that has been called by the Feds it's understandable but very, very disappointing that taxpayers are called upon for another one.”
It's called the vetting process. There's a lot of decisions that have to be made when it comes to this. I don't see why Obama thinking about Kaine has any relation to McCain choosing Palin. Quite frankly, I don't think you do either.
If you honestly just said, "I'm voting for McCain-Palin simply because they're Republicans," it would end all of this. It would be honest, it would make sense, it would save us all a lot of time.
taxpayers? this one's on china!
If Sarah Palin was a pro-choice, anti-gun Democratic Governor from the State of Alaska, and Obama picked her, there is no doubt in my mind that many of the people attempting to discredit her by saying she is unqualified would be going out of their way to defend her against any charge that she was not qualified to be Vice President.
thus, Obama made the responsible, mature, presidential pick.
as you've admitted, John McCain did not.
even Karl Rove understands this.