McCain picks a woman

[Dimnos]

Thats right a woman.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970882/from/ET/

not that there is anything wrong with that.

[El Blanco]

Ummm, isn't she under investigation?

Interesting pick Some claim its to get disenfranchised Hillary voters, but Palin is the philosophical opposite of her. Its like saying pissed off Obama voters would vote for Allan Keyes if Hillary got the nomination.

[Dimnos]

I think a lot of the support for Hillary was people who just wanted to break the barrier and get a woman, any woman, in office. This would get there vote. I also think some voters, younger people in my mind, just want something other than another old white guy. They would go to Obama, but now McCain has a reason for them to come to him.

[Madonna]

Originally Posted by Dimnos

I think a lot of the support for Hillary was people who just wanted to break the barrier and get a woman, any woman, in office. This would get there vote. I also think some voters, younger people in my mind, just want something other than another old white guy. They would go to Obama, but now McCain has a reason for them to come to him.

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

[Dimnos]

Originally Posted by Madonna

I don't trust any man who hasn't kissed another man.

Wtf does that have to do with anything? Are you the new rondom shit bot?

[Miss Modular]

Sharing a vagina in common wasn't enough for me to vote for Hilary in the Primaries (and I live in NY!), and it won't be enough for me to vote for McCain because a woman is on his ticket. It is historic, though, I will say.

I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

[Dixie]

Originally Posted by Miss Modular

Sharing a vagina in common wasn't enough for me to vote for Hilary in the Primaries (and I live in NY!), and it won't be enough for me to vote for McCain because a woman is on his ticket. It is historic, though, I will say.

I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

Ditto.

[pac-man]

Originally Posted by Miss Modular

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I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

That was the funniest god damned episode of The Daily Show in months.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Miss Modular

I'd like to add, though, that Jon Stewart's grating of the GOP media over hot coals on last night's Daily Show was hilarious.

The talking heads and the "oafs in office" need to be reminded that the cameras are always rolling: you MUST BE CONSISTENT IN YOUR OPINIONS. Because if you're not, you run the risk of appearing on the Daily Show, to the delight of voters everywhere.

Hat's off to Jon Stewart and the Daily Show for making the silly season that much sillier, and that much more watchable.

[Madonna]

Originally Posted by Dimnos

Wtf does that have to do with anything? Are you the new rondom shit bot?

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

[Colonel Flagg]

I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.

[El Blanco]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.

Why not question Obama's judgment. He is talking about Change and not being business as usual, then picks Biden.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

Why not question Obama's judgment. He is talking about Change and not being business as usual, then picks Biden.

You can say that about McCain too - he's all about experience and the "ability to lead" and then he picks a neophyte with no relevant political experience outside of 1.5 years as governor of Alaska.

So which panderer will be our next president?

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

I originally thought since Obama obviously was trying to address experience with his constituency in picking Biden, that McCain would try to either ease the Ultra-conservative bloc with a "Huckabee clone" or perhaps move toward the center with an independent-minded social pragmatist like Tom Ridge. Instead we get him tapping a female republican 1st-term governor with no other political experience besides being the mayor of a small Alaska village.

Now, instead of questioning Obama's foreign policy experience, I'm questioning McCain's judgment. Not a good position to place an independent voter.

He just wants to bring guilty white liberals over to his side by making a show of being "progressive" by picking a woman. Its all so transparent.

[executioneer]

man that is one fine ass vp candidate *wolf whistles*

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by executioneer

man that is one fine ass vp candidate *wolf whistles*

She's a former finalist for Miss Alaska. She won Miss Congeniality.

Plus, she's hot.

A good choice all around.

[Tadao]

He did not pick a woman, he picked an AMERICAN!

[Tadao]

Originally Posted by Tadao

He did not pick a woman, he picked an AMERICAN!

[El Blanco]

The more I hear people saying what a ploy this is, the more I can see it working for Team McCain.

They can claim the detractors are being unfair and attacking her just because she is a woman. "Oh, you seem to think that she's a woman, we can't possibly see her as qualified. We picked her because we think she'll be a good VP. You're the ones making her gender the issue."

And the angrier you get and more vitrol you spit, the more it plays into their hands.

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

They can claim the detractors are being unfair and attacking her just because she is a woman.

Actually, EB, I think it more plays into the folks who will make McCain's age an issue. If elected, he'll be the oldest 1st term president in history, and that may make people think more about who they have "a heartbeat away".

Let the games begin.

[pac-man]

If the GOP can get her in a bikini, they've won this election.

[MattJack]

yall jus h8n, pimpin ain't EZ and that's what McCain is doin

Originally Posted by McCain

How yall luh dat? Holla atcha boi!

[MattJack]

When Cindy McCain was asked how she felt about a former beauty queen being one heartbeat away from John:

Originally Posted by Cindy McCain

[MetalMilitia]

Does Mc Cain really have a chance in this election?

It could just be that the liberal Jew-run media and websites such as Digg have tainted my opinion but as far as I've seen, Obama has been wiping the floor with McCain in terms of public perception.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by MetalMilitia

Does Mc Cain really have a chance in this election?

It could just be that the liberal Jew-run media and websites such as Digg have tainted my opinion but as far as I've seen, Obama has been wiping the floor with McCain in terms of public perception.

I hope so. I'll be suprised in Mccain wins.

I know I should feel excited about the historic possibilty of female VP even Obama loses, but I'm not. I want the first female VP to be someone qualified for the job, not just some idiot they picked to pander to female voters. It isn't progress to pick someone based solely on their being a woman, its progress to pick someone GOOD who happens to be a woman. Its just empty tokenism, and that's worse than the glass ceiling itself.