I see the Palin pick as the biggest political stunt in modern politics.

[deacon]

Mccain's choice was insulting, irresponsible, hypocritical, and dangerous.

We have two wars going, an economy in the tank, health care crisis, an energy crisis, the middle east in turmoil, and russia flexing muscles again and he chooses a thoroughly untested unknown and say "she is ready."

For instance, Obama, Biden, mccain could conduct discussion with Maliki tomorrow if they had to, Palin as a casual follower of a 6 year war, couldn't. She is not ready. Imagine her tomorrow discussing policy with putin!

Also, it is 2000 and 2004 all over again with the media. The collective chants by the media about how great that speech was is downright asinine. They continue on the path of rollover for the GOP - delivering the same scrutiny they gave us and that gave us the iraq war.

[MarkInCA]

1. They won't let her talk to the press

Can you imagine her talking with someone like Putin about Georgia?

[deacon]

5. And you know rove will do what he did with bush, he will select, certain venues for her when she

a stump speech. America is being hustled.

[mrJJ]

2. A very dangerous stunt

It's a macabre point (redacted)- but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it's not an irrelevant one. According to these statistics, there is a roughly 1 in 3 chance that a 72-year-old man will not reach the age of 80, which is how old McCain would be at the end of a second presidential term. And that doesn't factor in individual medical history, such as McCain's battles with potentially lethal skin cancer.
...

The odds of a 72-year-old man living four more years, or one full White House term, are better. But for a man who has lived 72 years and 67 days (McCain's age on Election Day this year), there is between a 14.2 and 15.1 percent chance of dying before Inauguration Day 2013, according to the Social Security Administration's 2004 actuarial tables and the authoritative 2001 mortality statistics assembled by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Going by the Social Security Administration's tables, that's nearly ten times the likelihood that a man aged 47 years and 92 days (Barack Obama's age on Election Day this year) will die before Jan. 20, 2013.

C&P from BOR Burnt Orange Report

[deacon]

6. This is key too. One speech does not make her all of a sudden qualified.

It doesn't wash away her inexperience and yet the press refuses to address these critical and obvious conclusions. With the biggest political stunt we are also witnessing one of the biggest collapses of MSM.

[Kali]

9. are you replying to every post with this?

while it is a good point, it's been it in every thread I have looked at this evening.:wtf:

maybe it is your temporary sig line?

[deacon]

10. No, i haven't been on DU for days and am playing catch up, sorry you found it disturbing. but anyway

i just wrote CNN this letter.

Does one speech by Palin wipe out her inexperience and qualify her to be "ready" to be president? How many town halls has she done? How many stump speeches on the campaign trail? How many interviews? None. Yet one speech and your anchors go wild with rave reviews? This is responsible news coverage?

No. It isn't. It's the same level of scrutiny the media gaves us and how we ended up in a 6 year war. Disgraceful.

[Kali]

11. I was replying to post #2, not you

I swear I saw it 5 or 6 times - every thread I was opening.

[Vincardog]

3. The GOP has given us outsourced jobs, increased health care expenses, War pollution

and Corporate welfare to the same parasitic corporations sending our jobs to China in exchange for lead laced toys.

IS this the Change we need?

Do we really to head in the wrong direction FASTER?

[graywarrior]

4. Half the country is comprised of idiots distracted by shiny things

and they may just vote.

[Chef Eric]

7. I'm not religious, but I do thank God for the internet.

If we didn't have sites like DU to communicate and organize,
we'd be even more like Oceania than we are now.

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[Wapsie B]

8. Yeah, it's almost like Bill Veeck and the White Sox.