Palin = ZERO Foreign Policy experience

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After months of McCain warning of the serious harm that could befall the country if we have a President who has limited foreign policy experience, he selects a running mate with ZERO foreign policy experience. It proves that McCain will run on fake and dishonest campaign slogans, that in actuality, he doesn't even believe in.

Prior to Palin's less than 2 years as Governor she was the mayor of a town with about 5,000 people. At least Obama served on the US Senate foreign relations committee. Can you imagine the debate with Joe Biden? Or the debate with pre-Palin McCain?

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1. Anyone have McCain quotes that I could add to this?

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2. Its not only the experience, it is also the lack of interest.

Where is the basic intellectual curiosity on the biggest strategic blunder the United States has ever made?

What thinking person has no opinion on Iraq?

That tells me this is not a serious or thoughtful person.

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3. Obviously, and that McCain must have cared nothing for what he advocated for

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4. He says the Iraq War is the central battlefield on the war on terror.

Yet he picks someone with no opinion on it? How messed up is that? Is it because he thinks he can school her on the subject? I guess thats how he gets his face time with her. Old coot.

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6. I think this was the dumbest VP pick I have ever read about, will dems go after her?

that is the question.

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5. This argument is weak, IMO. McCain has the foreign policy experience.

He didn't need someone with more of it. He needed something else to balance the ticket out.

He will argue that he won't die in office, but in any case, she'll have 4 years of foreign policy training at the executive level before she takes over in 2012.

The argument they'll make: McCain's new ticket is the flip side of Obama/Biden, only the EXPERIENCED one is at the top of the ticket in McCain's.

This was a gutsy move on his part. At the least, it will energize his base and get them out to vote. He was a having a problem with that...that they might stay home and not vote.

I'm concerned. Dems hate her, but the Repubs love her. She's an extremist conservative, AND a beauty queen, AND presumably won't try to actually DO anything in the White House (knowing her place and all).

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7. He does if she should become President which is the major reason why we have a VP

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8. John McCain could win the Presidency and drop dead before a single day in office.

Look at Tim Russert for goodness sakes. A 72 year old with a history of cancer and high cholesterol in the highest stress job in the world is risky. Moreover, 5 years of being physically tortured isn't very good for long term viability.