Trying to equate Biden's mistakes to Sarah Palin's general cluelessness is completely weak.
You're right, because Biden demonstrates total stupidity at worst, or at best, that he is completely out of touch with what his own Presidential candidate supports. Either way it is a scary recipe for disaster. At least Palin/McCain know what their own positions are. There is no comparison because Palin's "mistakes" have for the most part been fabricated from whole cloth by the liberal media. Do you really want to make a list and compare the so-called "mistakes" by Palin and the outright stupidity and dishonesty of Joe Biden? Seriously, I'll make one if you're interested. I get a kick at how the media downplays Biden's remarks proving his inability to even get on the same page as Obama, by calling them "gaffes" as if they were just minor slips. Remember, Biden said earlier this year that Obama isn't ready to lead.
When Obama campaigns on supporting clean coal and Biden speaks quite vehemently against the idea, it becomes perfectly clear he doesn't even know whgat Obama's positions really are. Yet when Palin is interviewed by Katie Couric she is asked on the spot for a list of specific accomplishments by McCain that pertains to his efforts on the economy. One whammy of an example wasn't good enough for her. You simply don't see the media asking Biden to answer for his foul ups.
And then it gets shifted over to Obama once anyone points out Palin's obvious lack of ability. "Well, if you think Palin is not qualified, take a look at Obama!"
This again proves the liberal bias. Why is Palin's experience downplayed and dismissed when she is only the VP pick, yet Obama's complete inexperience doesn't even seem to concern them, when he is the Presidential pick? It boggles the mind, to say nothing of the fact that liberals seem completely incapable of reasoning on the matter and even admitting Obama has less experience than Palin. What exactly has Obama done that makes him qualified for the Presidency?
While you guys rail on Palin for the "bridge to nowhere" and make much of the fact that it was a stupid project not worth the taxpayers money, nobody seems to be hip to the fact that Obama and Biden both
voted for it twice, even after it was suggested the money would have been better spent on rebuilding Lousiana after Hurricane Katrina.
Obama/Biden, ready to lead or ready to be hypocrites?
If that is your argument in behalf of Palin it is a very, very sad argument indeed. And in regards to Obama, he clearly understands issues that Palin doesn't even know exist yet.
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what? You guys seem to think that by lowering Palin with rhetoric, you're somehow exalting Obama on the pedestal of "experience." All Obama does is talk and says whatever his speech writers tell him to say. He has
no record demonstrating a capacity to handle anything that really matters. His only executive claim to fame is that he "manages his campaign" which is just another "gaffe" since his hired campaign manager does that. Even worse, the latest "Obamazebo" proves Obama is not ready to manage even
minimal financial endeavors without screwing the pooch. In 2001 as an Illionois State Senator, Obama,
A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent.
The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show
$65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for the blighted South Side neighborhood.
Smith wrote another $20,000 in grant-related checks to K.D. Contractors, a construction company that his wife, Karen D. Smith, created five months after work on the garden was supposed to have begun, records show. K.D. is no longer in business...
Paraphrasing what I wrote earlier this month and back in July, this sad saga is no trifling matter, but rather goes directly to the Illinois Senator's fitness to be president:
In July, Obama claimed that the state governor's staff should have been monitoring the grant. This shows that he felt no sense of responsibility for the results of money
directed to someone HE chose, and despite a previous promise to "work tirelessly" to ensure that the project came to fruition. This isn't "the buck stops here" of Harry Truman fame; this is "the buck went somewhere else."
Gubernatorial staffs aren't responsible for monitoring projects like this. The blame-shifting to other pols is either hopelessly naïve (a legitimate possibility, given the Obama's seemingly endless well of ignorance) or irresponsible.
If you look at the full text of the press release that announced the project in 2000, you'll see that Smith was on hand, that he made representations about how he was "work(ing) with a variety of governmental agencies and not-for-profit groups to secure funding this project," and that he had "made some progress." My bet: Smith had, at most, met with a few organizations once or twice, and was blowing smoke about his realistic chances of getting money. For a nominal $550 in campaign contributions and some volunteer hours, Smith got 100 grand, which "somehow" mostly made its way to him and his wife, with no real accountability thus far. Face it:
Obama got hustled. I doubt that he even looked into how the rest of the "fund-raising" was going before directing the release of the grant funds.
Perhaps that's why Obama seems oddly indifferent to what ultimately happened. The response from his spokesman (and not the candidate) is tired boilerplate about "provid(ing) residents with a livable neighborhood." Zzzzzz.
The larger point is this: The guy is hopelessly gullible, can't even get a $100,000 grant right, and now wants to have the final say in matters relating to a $3-plus trillion federal budget and a $14-trillion economy in a town chock full of con artists and tricksters. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer ... -takes-not
This just goes to support everything I've said about him.
This guy is probably going to become our next President, and his history is riddled with examples of poor management. And where is the media on this? They're sending an army of investigators to Wasilla to find out if Palin's management credentials are up to snuff.
Obama hires other people to clean up his dirty work so when the crap hits the fan, he can rely on plausible deniability. Anything that requires real managment, he hires someone else for the job. Like his advisors who need to convene with him behind closed doors for a few days befor he can go to the public with another "lecture" on whatever crisis there is in the world. He isn't a man who has a history of making important decisions, especially those kinds of decisions that need to be made quickly. And more importantly, he never argues goes against his own party. He is a strict partisan on the issues, yet you people really think he is going to lower taxes?? LOL. He's voted on taxes 94 times, and in every instance, it was to raise them.
He is the quintessential Washingtonesque politician who knows the game of back scratching and scandal. There is nothing special or unique about the man, aside from his skin color. And there is certainly no reason to believe he is capoable of leading this country.
I listen to conservative talk shows. I find they distort the truth even more often than left-leaning sources in general.
Then you are blinded by your own bias. This is not a moot point. The media is admittedly liberal. Why insult everyon'e intelligence by pretending it isn't? FOX News isn't the greatest because it has that moron Hannity on there, but even his presence is tempered with many other evenhanded treatments of the political picture. Obama and Hillary both were on O'Reilley and they loved it. Hillary Clinton even said she was treated more fair by Fox then any other news venue!!
At least they present someone from each party to debate an issue. Over at the other networks, you get three or four democrat "strategists" along with the liberal host, going off on these long rants laughing amongst themselves and patting each other on the backs while bashing Palin for stupid things that have already been shown not to be true. For example, the other day among four speakers, one woman brought Palin's supposed ignorance of the "Bush doctrine" but nobody thought the "Bush Doctrine" was an important topic when
Presidential candidate Barack Obama didn't know what their version of it was either, and come to think of itl, neither did Charles Gibson!
Then McCain cancels his appearance on David Letterman to address the crisis in Washington (you guys call it a "political stunt" but the fact is he was urged to attend the sessions as even Bill Clinton recently admitted - funny how nobody wanted Obama show up) so what does Letterman do in retailiation?
He puts Keith Obermann on and teh two go off on McCain for 20 minutes straight. The web is replete with examples of mdeia bias that tries to reshape the landscape of this election by influencing the gullible. That is the brunt of democrat voters. People who are not informed. Even people like Chris Smith, who had established himself well as an intelligent critical thinker, abandons all of these tools when it comes to investigating the truth in the liberal spin machine. He and Sethbag still believe Palin said God was on our side in Iraq. Why? Because thatis how Charles Gibson twisted her comments.
This isn't simply atheist hysteria. I should hope that thoughtful deists and theists would also be concerned that the person they are voting for not subscribe to a cartoonish caricature of faith.
Yes it is, and this is proved by the fact that they keep propagating lies about her beliefs left after right, and after they are categorically shot down, they keep reinventing her religion because their need to feel threatened by a theist is more important than the truth. This is hysteria at its finest, and we cannot compare Obama's 20 years as an adult at a radical left Black Liberation Church with Plain's childhood Church she eventually left. Palin said she respects evolution. She doesn't believe Dinosours are 4000 years old. She never once asked for a book to be burned.
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it...Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality." - Albert Einstein