Obama’s the beauty queen in this race. Every race he’s run has been a beauty pageant. Palin’s a former beauty queen who’s actually got a record of executive experience. He’s run a campaign, she’s run a state government. He’s a corrupt Chicago pol, she’s an anti-corruption crusader. If you can’t see the difference then you’ve drunk too much of that Democrat Kool-Aid. Time for you to become an independent again.

You don’t think Palin should be “a heartbeat away” (a tiresome expression that’s sure to get worse) because she won a scholarship in a small town beauty contest 25 years ago? Would that be before or after Barack Hussein Obama was a madrassah student in Indonesia?

He was, wasn’t he? Sure, it was a long time ago but something like that “makes it easy for me to decide whom to vote for.”

I’ll take a former Miss Wasilla (known at the time as Sarah Barracuda and currently Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard) over a thin-skinned, secretive, charismatic media darling who may or may not have been schooled by jihadis during his childhood.

Fair enough? No?!?!?!! Sorry, we all have our prejudices.

Let me phrase my problem with your position this way – in an adult way I hope. I assume you have a problem with Palin’s experience. My concern is this. I do want two things in a president – somebody with experienced and a track record as a reformer. I believe that both parties are corrupt, the Democrats more then the Republicans, but practically speaking both parties need a good house cleaning. Now convince me that I should vote for Obama who has NO experience as an executive while Palin does has some. It may not be much in your eyes but she has been an executive and she has gotten things done.

Should I vote for Obama, if the head of your ticket has less experience that the VP of the opposing ticket?

Let’s take reform, what has Obama done to reform anything? He made his way through the famously corrupt Chicago system with his skids greased by the likes of Rezko and Aires. While in the Senate he went with the Dems something like 97% of the time (McCain was around 88%). He has done nothing to reform or buck the system anywhere he went. Palin on the other hand has done much to reform the politics in Alaska. She ousted the good-old-boy republican gov, her ethics probes forced members of her own party to resign from powerful lucrative positions as well as pay hefty fines, in fact she herself resigned from a position because of the corruption, she fought against the waist of the Bridge to Nowhere against a famous powerful Senator, she negotiated the building of a 25 something billion dollar natural gas pipe line that had been stalled for almost 30 years. She has bucked the system against her own party and gotten results. Obama has nothing to show in these areas.

Now am open to your views. Tell my why, in light of what I just stated (not very eloquently I might add, I’m very tired and its late) I should vote for Obama. Please do so without name calling or the caricaturisation of Mrs. Palin.

Again please accept my apology for what I said in my previous posts.

Jeff Sulman

There is that better?

Jeff Sulman

I woke up laughing myself. It could be the prospect of a three day weekend, but I have to admit yesterday’s announcement about Palin lit me up like Christmas tree. It’s the first thing I’ve actually felt really good about since this seemingly endless campaign started, which fits right in with the overall emotionalism of this election. A sign of the times, probably. So much at stake, both real and imaginary.

As for the phenomenonal cloud that is Himself, the far too early start of this race may be the silver lining after all. The real fight starts now. And Sarah Palin is a real fighter. I want to see her and Biden debate energy policy. O yes precious the sooner the better…