What about McCain's "threshold" test . . . someone "ready to step in on a moment's notice?"

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from Media Matters: http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290006


* On the April 1 edition of CNN's Situation Room, McCain asserted: "I think about whether that person who I select would be most prepared to take my place. And that would be the key criteria."

* On the April 6 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday, McCain said of his selection, "The first and really major and overwhelming priority is a person who shares my principles, my values, my priorities -- as you know, priorities are very important in presidents -- and could be -- immediately take my place. That's, I think, the overriding criteria." He added, "It is who can best take my place and carry on the agenda and the vision that I have outlined and will continue to outline during this campaign."

* In a July 8 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interview, when asked, "What kind of a vice president do you want?" McCain reportedly responded: "Someone who shares my priorities and my principles. And also obviously who is ready to take my place at a moment's -- you know, immediately."


From the April 1 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:

BASH: . . . in all seriousness, when you're approaching who you're picking for the vice president, do you think about your age as a factor? And --

McCAIN: Not particularly, no. I think -- I think about whether that person who I select would be most prepared to take my place. And that would be the key criteria.


From the April 6 edition of Fox News Sunday:

WALLACE: A couple of final questions I'm going to ask you, sir. You said this week that you have started putting together the list of possibilities for vice president. Given that you call radical Islam the transcendent challenge of our age, fair to assume that your running mate must have firsthand foreign policy experience?

McCAIN: I don't know if that's -- I think that the person -- the first and really major and overwhelming priority is a person who shares my principles, my values, my priorities -- as you know, priorities are very important in presidents -- and could be -- immediately take my place. That's, I think, the overriding criteria.

WALLACE: So it could be someone who's, in effect, a foreign policy novice?

McCAIN: Well, it could be someone who has a lot of experience and someone who doesn't on national security issues. And frankly, the process that we're in -- you know, it's so early in the process that, honestly, it's -- the sole criteria I'm looking at is not that. It is who can best take my place and carry on the agenda and the vision that I have outlined and will continue to outline during this campaign.


From the July 9 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interview:

Trib: What kind of a vice president do you want?

McCain: Someone who shares my priorities and my principles. And also obviously who is ready to take my place at a moment's -- you know, immediately.

[Roland99]

1. To his defense, it really won't take much more than a gun-totin' Barbie to replace McSame!

:rofl:

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4. we deserve better

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2. obama's campaign should run with this

clips of mccain "moment's notice"

then one of Palin saying she doesn't know the duties of VP

tagline - will we have enough time to explain the duties and responsibilities of a presidency to her?

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3. I like it!

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[Ghost in the Machine]

5. He took a nap and forgot all about that...

:hi: