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Obama's Palin Plan

By Jeralyn

Update: Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is on the right track on how to go after Palin.

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Greg Sergeant at TPM outlines two possible plans of the Obama campaign for dealing with the Sarah Palin issue. One seems to be do nothing, see how it plays out and continue to fight against McCain. The other is to point out that Palin is upstaging McCain which shows...I'm not sure what.

The problem with not fighting back against Palin is that the Republicans are using as their central argument that Obama is inexperienced, ignoring that their VP candidate has no relevant national experience that qualifies her for Vice President. Palin doesn't hestitate to make that argument against him, and I shake my head every time I hear it, wondering how she of all people can make that claim with a straight face. [More...]

I heard 2 hours of Obama-bashing by various politicians today at the McCain-Palin event in Colorado Springs. Those arguments may work if Obama doesn't fight back against them.

McCain should be criticized for choosing someone with such a lack of experience for the second most important leadership position in the country. Nothing reflects more poorly on his judgment.

And Palin should be mocked for crtiticizing anyone's lack of national experience when her's is zero.

Having seen Palin today, my impressions are she isn't remotely qualified to make a major decision for the country.

She was ho-hum, not star quality. Her role was to introduce John McCain -- a campaign aide could have done that.

McCain is running on a G-d, America and apple pie platform. There's nothing heroic or particularly accomplished about her. She has a lot of baggage. I think a lot of Democrats are distressed at the amount of media attention Palin is getting and are waiting for Obama to hit back hard. We want to see a fighter, and he's not fighting back. Instead, millions are being infected by the Republican spin that he's not qualified and will bring economic doom to the country.

I listened to Obama's speeches in Indiana on the radio today, and he mocked McCain's message of change, saying people aren't stupid enough to buy it. I think everyone rolls their eyes by now at the word "change" and what he should be attacking is McCain's poor judgment in his VP pick. Who's stupid enough to think Sarah Palin could lead in a crisis if something happens to McCain? And who's stupid enough not to worry about it?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 07, 2008 (boomark / email).