John McCain Just Doesn't Get It...

Barack Obama said it last night in his acceptance speech "It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it."

The media has talked about how John McCain voted for the war, voted against making MLK Day a national holiday, doesn't know how to use the internet, can't tell you how many houses he has and that he told one group of supporters that Americans are "a bunch of whiners." 

If that didn't illustrate to us how seriously out of touch this candidate is, his Vice Presidential pick will.... 

I introduce to you Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. The woman who'll run the country (the entire country) if McCain gets into office and dies three days later (today is his 72nd birthday by the way). 

Tell me again, who's inexperienced? 

Palin is seriously under-qualified. The former runner up in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant has been the Governor of Alaska for less than 2 years... yes I said Alaska, the state with less than 700,000 people (700,000 people= 6 Inglewoods). Her journey toward the White House started when she joined the PTA, was elected to city council, then served as mayor, and now governor. 

::sigh::

So why her? 

Unlike Hillary Clinton who was running because she's a phenomenal politician (and just so happens to be a woman), John McCain probably chose Palin simply BECAUSE she's a woman. I'm guessing this is the reason since I just can't think of any other reason he would choose her. But I do know that if she were a man she wouldn't so much as be considered for the VP spot. 

(Sidenote: What does this say about the Republican party when the highest ranking female they could scrounge up is an ex-beauty queen that governs a state with less people than Wyoming? No Hillary's or Pelosi's huh? None in the entire party? That's a shame.)

But listen up disenchanted Clinton voters, Palin has a message for you: "It turns out that the women in America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling."

Apparently Misguided McCain thinks that disenchanted Clinton voters will be wooed over to the Republican Party because he also apparently thinks that the only reason why they were voting for Clinton was because she was a woman. Way to piss off and insult the intelligence of the feminists and Clinton supporters. I'm sure women will be lining up to vote for Palin (who opposes the idea of a woman's right to choose by the way). 

This decision will also backfire in these ways: 

1. It deads the argument about Obama being too inexperienced or not ready to lead because clearly anyone breathing knows that this lady is far from being experienced or ready. 

2. It strengthens Obama's argument that McCain has poor judgment. I'm confident that I even have better judgment than McCain now. 

3. He made this announcement on the tail end of the DNC in the hopes that it would steal some of Obama's shine but I predict that this decision is only going to contribute to the momentum successfully built up by the amazing speeches of this past's week's DNC.  

I was never a Clinton voter but I am a woman and I'm thoroughly disgusted by this blatant slap in the face. But as has been my practice for the last few weeks now... I have to turn this negative energy into positive energy by highlighting the good in the situation. 

Thank you John McCain for throwing the election with this deplo

rable VP choice. Us Democrats appreciate it. 

O-Biden 08!