Now, whenever a liberal friend or family member asks me if Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president, I respond by noting her record of taking on entrenched interests before her election as Alaska Governor and of effecting reform as chief executive of the Last Frontier. They will then brush aside my answers, press the question, noting her fumbles in recent TV interviews and he lack of experience in national politics.
That absence of experience was once the main appeal of their candidate for the White House.
Since I realize they’ll never consider Palin’s accomplishments, I’ll ask them what Obama has  done. They’ll reply that he’s done lots and lots. I ask for specifics. Well, he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. He wrote a book, no, two! He was a community organizer . . . He gave a great speech . . .
As they press me, I press them, asking to identify specific Obama accomplishments, you know like policies enacted or reforms effected. Â A this point, they fall silent.
I find I’m not the only one to so press Obama supporters. My left-leaning lesbian friend wrote me yesterday:
I’ve been asking people…”so what is it that he has done that leads you to believe that he would make a good president…or that he would even qualify for the job…just give me one accomplishment”…
They reply that he’s bright, but like my interlocutors, hers also go silent.
Wonder why the media doesn’t run more stories on Obama’s qualifications or whether he’s been properly vetted.
As the campaign gets more vicious by the day, I am very happy you posted this. I need to use this approach more often.
To be honest, the first response I get is, how can you like that woman – she is anti abortion. To which I reply I didn’t realize that the main accomplishment of women these days is killing unborn babies.
Doesn’t win me any friends, and a more subtle answer – like Dan’s will probably be more appropriate.
I, too, can’t understand the Obama fascination. I am gay, but gay issues alone do not solely determine for whom I cast my one vote.
I think Dan got this dead on accurate. What surprises me is why the conservatives in the media (the few there are) do not use this approach. Indeed, even McCain has used this approach in the 1st debate pointing out that Nobama has no experience and has poor judgment.
I will trust Sarah Palin on the every day issues that deal with our lives. She is a Chief Executive of a state and knows energy policy better then any one running for President and Energy is one of our top priorities that effects our economy and national security.
I am still miffed at McCain’s campaign people for even bother putting Palin in MSM interviews. Palin is McCain’s secret weapon and put her in every radio talk show and local interview show there is in the Red states and battleground states, which is what McCain needs to do to excite the base and get out a larger base to counter Nobama fraud in rigging the vote.
Keep having Palin hit the McCain message and her experience in cutting budgets and pushing for Energy Independence and as a Chief Executive who is a reformer and works with both parties.
Remind voters that issues can be learned. Judgment cannot be. Basic decency and respecting our core values is what Governor Palin lives every day and she and McCain won’t blow up the federal budget and be extremist liberals like Nobama and Biden, the number 1 and number 3 liberals in Congress.
It also peeves me to no end that Palin has more executive experience and reform minded then Nobama ever had or will. Palin works with the Democrats in her state and Nobama weakly says he doesn’t reach out to Republicans because they won’t listen to him..so much for his leadership…..
I feel like I am about to enter into the USSR with the Marxism of Nobama and want to scream wake up America..are you willing to surrender to this moron with no judgment and no real ability…..
I am Gay too but it is precisely because of that I love the likes of Sarah Palin..no nonsense, fair, caring and down to earth and she doesn’t judge people or see me as a label but as a person…Nobama sees me as a way to pull the wool over my eyes to get my vote just because he assumes if I am Gay I surely must think like a leftist Marxist like him and hell no, I won’t ever want the likes of him and motor mouth Joe running the show.
Don’t forget that Obama will be good on drugs. He has experience in using them. He also has good taste in friends and uhh ahh he’s good at reading teleprompters and coloring his greys when he’s not along side McCain and uhh writing 2 books, but writing no laws. He’s good at campaigning and good at rigging them, now with the help of ACORN. He can also um be a great leader of Europe. He plays basketball pretty good and um….
Sorry, Dan, but it doesn’t make any difference.
As I commented the other day, I’ve listened to otherwise smart people at work blame Bush for the entire mortgage debacle. Pointing out to them that Bush isn’t a king and that Congress makes the laws is a futile effort. The fact that Dems have made out like bandits (literally in some cases) is irrelevant.
Any attempt at debate is met the same way… I think it was Rush who compared these people to baseball pitching machines – no matter how many you knock out of the park, they keep pitching non sequiturs .
These people are deluded. To them, their guy truly is the Messiah; divine and infallible. He is Good simply because He exists.
I think it’s sad (and a little scary) that people invest so much in someone who is running to lead a nation of free(??) people. They teach their kids to worship Him! Regardless, Obama doesn’t have magic powers and when He runs into reality, a lot of His supporters will be sorely disappointed.
Government is like fire: a useful but dangerous servant. Many have forgotten this (or never learned it).
Remind voters that issues can be learned. Judgment cannot be.
Exactly. Well said, Rocket.
Given the mess in DC and the near-civil war we have in our politics, I can’t see that the experienced denizens of DC have the judgement God gives the average golden retriever (or the brains).
Even cats and dogs are smart enough to not foul their own nest.
The Dems have created this mess (for the most part): a society splintering into warring factions… it will be interesting to see them try to ride this tiger.
Just to let you know it did take me a while to get to this approach but it is much less painful for me and more embarrassing for them…
Phoned my kid brother in Alaska today told him “Hey sorry but you guys can’t have your Gov. back….we’re keeping her, you all are just gonna havta share, but hey good luck with finding your next one!”
ON Sarah…geez just what a breath of fresh air….also am enjoying watching people squirm almost out of control because of her non-apologetic stance & opinions and because in fact they’re really not that different from their own if they would just step back from the table for a minute and really think about just what it was she has just said….seriously…sometimes I think some of us left leaning liberals just don’t really get just what it is we say we stand for….it’s just that for the most part we haven’t really heard stuff like this coming from the right….she honors her own voice but also honors and respects the voices and opinions of others even though we may not always agree…geez what a concept….but in all fairness guys this is a rarity that this Republican not only says it but lives it…her actions really do match her words….how refreshing….
I love how your listing of Obama’s accomplishments skips his entire legislative history. 8 years in IL senate and 4 years as a US senator always get left off the list. Must be the MSM bias again; we can usually find a way to blame then, I know.
Somehow, working on anti-nuke proliferation legislation just isn’t as valuable as putting a plane on eBay (Oh wait, that was a lie too). Police interrogations? Lobbying reform? Transparency in govenment spending? Did you not know of the Google?
I thought conservatives believed in that last one, too, the whole “how is the government spending our money” ? I know I do, but I am not sure if Bush/McCain-till-death conservatives do. Maybe it’s one of those “it only matters if a Republican does it” things. I mean, we know that raising taxes on oil companies and sending bigger check to the community is ok if you’re a Republican, but somehow asking for it to happen on a larger scale is marxistsocialistcommunistobamaisamuslim.
Just so every one here knows the facts: if you claim, even for a second, that Obama wrote no laws or has no legislative accomplishments: you’re deficient in teh facts. Google can help cure you, but if you pretend otherwise, you’re willfully ignoring the truth.
PS. Did you hear Palin believes in a constitutional right to privacy? Damn living document…
And torrent, I love how your response skips out any significant legislation Obama wrote during that period.
If you believe, we’re deficient in facts and that google offers a cure, why don’t you use it? And why can’t his supporters since they keep coming up empty when we ask about his accomplishments? All you list are minor legislative efforts where, in some cases, Obama has exaggerated his influence.
As to Palin’s accomplishments, well, just google those–or check this blog. They involve more than selling airplanes.
Why must you always go into a rant against conservatives whenever we offer criticisms of Obama or other Democrats?
In case you missed it, here is the Vice President Experience breakdown over the last 100 years.
Palin and Obama really aren’t that far apart, experience wise. It’s the command of knowledge of curent events where Palin seems to have a tremendous weakness.
And yes, she has been thrown some “gotcha” questions. But when you don’t know the answer, any question becomes a “gotcha” question.
#8: “…if you claim, even for a second, that Obama wrote no laws or has no legislative accomplishments: you’re deficient in teh facts. Google can help cure you, but if you pretend otherwise, you’re willfully ignoring the truth.”
torrentprime, we already know that Obama voted in favor of legislation authorizing sex education for children in kindergarten and that he went TO THE MAT to protect infanticide. And we already know that he launched his illustrious career as a state legislator at William Ayers’ house. Those three facts alone are what decent people call “deal-breakers.” In other words, I don’t give a fu*k if he passed the “Everyone In Illinois Gets To Have The Power To Fly Act.” In fact, I think you’re very misguided if you think Republicans taking an even closer look at Obama’s legislative record in Illinois would help your candidate. As the MSM has taught us, your Lord of Hosts..er candidate does a lot better in the polls when his past is left in the past.
P.S. By the way, torrentprime, I’m pretty sure that the Lobbying Reform “accomplishment” you cite is the Illinois Gift Ban that Obama passed in 1998, which prohibited legislators, state officers and employees, and judges from soliciting or receiving gifts from a person or entity with interests affected by government. I have a question for you: did Obama get that landmark ethics legislation passed before or after he and Michelle moved into Casa de la Rezko?
AH yes! What is it? 180 present votes? If that doesnt qualify him, well, nothing will.
And ditching the US Senate for the campaign trail before he’s been there long enough to warm up his seat, despite having said he would never think of running for president in his first term because he simply wouldnt have the requisite experience.
So what was it that he has “accomplished” in the IL state senate and in congress? I mean besides wanting to teach little kids about what he does with his genitalia and sabotaging legislation that would have saved the lives of living-breathing babies?
No, its not. Especially considering Obama had nothing to do with anti-nuke legislation he didnt author it, he didnt co-sponsor it, he offered an amendment that had to do with conventional weapons nothing to do with nukes. And like everything Obama has “accomplished” in the senate, it was so completely inconsequential and non-controversial that it passed without debate on a voice vote.
You cant even pass a resolution wishing Americans a Merry Christmas without debate on a voice vote.
Sorry. He’s still a lightweight with zero REAL accomplishments. 🙂
(PS. Palin DID put the plane on EBay. No lies about it. It didnt sell there for a price she was willing to accept so they sold it through a broker. Thats accomplishing something for the people, once again, unlike Obama)
TP proves once again, the truth about Barack Obama is worse than the lies about Sarah Palin, or even the lies about the truth about Sarah Palin. (Truth: she put the plane on eBay. When it didn’t get a bid that met the minimum, the plane was sold through a broker. The point of the story is that she got rid of a government extravagance, not that she has mad eBay skillz… a distinction that is lost on the kind of left-wing idiots who label the story a “lie.”)
Sarah Palin is the vessel through which the left expresses their hatred of ordinary Americans.
When they hate on her lack of travel, they’re really expressing contempt for those who don’t inherit trust funds and bum around Europe for several years trying to “find themselves.”
When they hate her for fishing and hunting moose, she’s the proxy for their hatred of ordinary Americans who enjoy hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling instead of going to theaters to watch some cuss-filled plays denouncing middle-class values.
When they attack her family, they attack all Americans who prioritize their families above personal gratification, who love their children instead of aborting them or leaving them with a nanny.
When they hate her for her religious beliefs, she is their proxy for hating all Christian Americans.
Hatred for Palin… is really hatred for us.
Gotta love how the Left just can’t get Palin out of their heads. Everything they tear her apart on is everything we call Obama on. The big difference that they seem eager to ignore is that Obama is running for the 1 slot and Palin the 2 slot.
And let’s be real. Over 90 percent of us already know who we’re going to vote for and there is absolutely nothing Palin can do or say that will change the Left’s mind about her. She can announce that she’s a lesbian who had an abortion during brunch and they’d still hate her. The Left’s animus has nothing to do with what Palin does or says. It has everything to do with her being a conservative and to the Left there is no more reprehensible a crime.
I want to see McCain follow up on his “difference between a strategy and a tactic” with two new themes:
– I believe Senator Obama does not understand the difference between a GOAL and a PLAN.
and
– I believe Senator Obama does not understand the difference between getting a JOB TITLE to add to his resume and actually DOING a JOB.
The major difference is that the media has covered for Obama, especially in the begining. If Palin had a year of campaiging for president, constantly training for it and not being a governer, and had a favorable media to cover for her…no one would think she was less qualified than Obama. There was sad truth in how one pundit says that part of Obama’s experience for presidency is running for the president…he can give answers that cover all the right bases and covers his inherit problems or inexperiences. Obama has been able to exude confidence and look presidential, which is all that some people need when most see Republicans as the problem and not the solution.
I like Palin and have high hopes for her in the future, hopefully this will all set her up for her own run later.
Obama has accomplished much. When he was a community organizer in Chicago, he helped ACORN to bring lawsuits agains banks that didn’t issue enough loans to people who couldn’t repay them. See, e.g., Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Fed. Sav. Bank. And he helped to train ACORN members in the tactics of Saul Alinsky, as his minion described it, “to help poor people.”
What they did wasn’t illegal: he took advantage of Clinton’s Democrat-Congress-passed law–and helped bring our economy to where it is today. (Now, of course, it’s the fault of “the failed economic policies of the Bush administration; yeah, they failed to muster a filibuster-proof number and pass corrective bills.)
I don’t know about you, but pretty soon I may need that “help [for] poor people.