September 2008 Archives

The fiasco that was the process by which Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska came to be chosen as John McCain’s running mate, gives us a good insight into the kind of President Senator McCain would make, and the picture it paints is a disturbing one. It is one of a man who makes hasty, spur-of-the-moment decisions, based on nothing more than a gut instinct, without gathering the proper information upon which to base that decision....

The latest attempt by the McCain campaign to justify the pick of Sarah Palin is to point to her advantage in “executive experience” over Barack Obama, including this, posted on the McCain web site: “She's the Governor of Alaska and was the mayor of a small town, meaning she has more executive experience than Barack Obama and Joe Biden put together.” If the McCain people want to talk about executive experience, let’s look at what...