After so much of Obama baiting in her campaigns, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate has finally given up on her party. She has now openly expressed her support for the Democratic ticket represented by Barrack Obama. Here’s how she expressed her support:
Apparently Palin does not know that the donkey is the symbol of the Democratic party. By wearing this neck scarf she has thus publicly pledged her support for Obama.
The Obama campaign must be thanking their stars. Not often do you get the rival vice-presidential candidate to endorse you publicly, do you?
Who is Sarah Palin? This was the question on the minds of a majority of Americans when John McCain announced her as the Republican vice-presidential candidate for the upcoming US presidential elections. The McCain campaign machinery went into overdrive to establish Palin as the face of the campaign.
Introduction of Palin in the McCain campaign injected a freshness that initially held the whole nation in sway. As time went on the charm wore off. Even though initially very impressive in her speeches, Palin committed gaffe, after gaffe, after gaffe in the subsequent days. Now it seems that she is all about winks and smiles and “darn”-s and “gosh”-s.
Palin is a person who cannot answer a question. To her, every question appears to be a tricky one. Even ones as simple and straight forward as what magazines she reads got cryptic and twisted answers. To the questions about her choice of magazines she went on a ramble about Alaska not being a third-world state. What the….!!!
She has displayed a very disappointing command over foreign policy and her ignorance reached its peak when somehow she tried to convince that being able to see Russia from parts of Alaska was tantamount to having foreign policy experience. She has very little idea about the truth about Iraq and all she does is toe the party line on it.
Her being pro-life is really another laughable aspect. The entire concept of being pro-life or anti-abortion is somewhat related to curtailing the freedom of choice of people. In fact, during the VP debate, she appeared to be very much uncomfortable about and against the idea of same-sex marriage. Wake up Mrs Palin!!! This is the 21st century.
During the debate she mentioned something about sitting around the kitchen table and discussing the future of her family. From the facts she is doing a pretty lousy job of looking after her family. She has a 16 year old daughter who is pregnant with the child of a 17 year old high-school hockey player and wants to get married to the boy. Is this what Mrs Palin sees as the future of her family? Or is sending off her eldest son to Iraq just after high-school qualify as future planning? Beats me.
She keeps on saying that she is a hockey mom. Ok we accept it. But why would we want a hockey mom as the VP of USA? We need is a person who has the credentials for the job and clearly Sarah Palin is not qualified. All she has to say is about her tenure as a mayor and a governor. As a mayor she commissioned a sports complex which is mired in controversy and lawsuits. As a mayor of a town of 6000 people she left the town with a budget deficit. As a governor she commissioned the failed bridge to nowhere but succeeded in building the road to nowhere. And all this with taxpayers money. When she can’t properly manage a state with a population of 700,000 people (most of the cities in the US have more population) how can she manage the country as a VP?
Lastly, Sarah Palin talks of being a Washington outsider and she prides herself for that. But by contesting the elections isn’t she trying to be an insider? So why this fake show of pride Mrs Palin? Who are you trying to impress?
All these facts show that Sarah Palin is nothing but a shallow, unqualified, stupid and incapable hypocrite.
He keeps on harping about his past record and then accuses the Obama campaign of looking too much into the past. By the way his past records are nothing to be proud of.
He is extremely condescending and says that Obama does not understand due to his inexperience. However he never tries to explain either.
He supports the killing of Americans in the foolish Iraq war – USA’s second Vietnam.
He does not have a plan to pull the economy out of its current rut.
He is offensive and disrespectful towards his opponent (remember “that one” from the second debate? Also see this video where he refused to shake hands with Obama).
He chose Sarah Palin as his running mate – a completely ridiculous choice.
He tries a bit too much to appeal to the emotions of the people without having a concrete plan to help them.
So its about eight years since the second Iraq war started. And what has the US gained out of it? Nothing really. Right now US is facing the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. But yet the Republicans defend their decision on the Iraq war.
So what’s the truth?
US went into this war alleging that Iraq was piling weapons of mass destruction(WMD). Did they find any? No.
The govt thought it would be a quick and easy war. Was it so? No.
The govt never expected the costs to mount. The reality is US spends almost $10 billion every month on this war.
Are they going to stop any soon? No. Why? Because they do not want to come back home defeated. For the love of God, whom did they win over? Whom were they fighting? There was no resistance offered. So who would have defeated them?
Was Al Quaida established in Iraq? No, but after the US invasion they found a few bases here and there.
Are the people of Iraq happy with the US occupation? Can’t really say. The reports that appear in the American media have every chance of being biased.
Right now the US economy is in a rut. They have huge deficits and debts. The recent bailout of $850 billion did very little to the stock market. The govt blames Wallstreet for excessive greed when they themselves are victims of the same.
After 9/11 when the US should have concentrated wholly on Afghanistan to weed out the Taliban (whom they created in the first place) and the Al Quaida, they chose to dabble in Iraq. The British govt had already owned up to the fact that the Iraq war was a mistake, but not the current arrogant US govt. The result is the people of the country paying through their nose. In eight years, going by $10 billion a month, the US govt spent close to $1 trillion on Iraq. Wouldn’t it have been good to have that money now?
John McCain, the present Republican presidential candidate, keeps on saying that the surge in Iraq is a success. Well I have news for you John. The surge wouldn’t have been required if you and your stupid friend George W Bush Jr didn’t go into Iraq in the first place. What did you gain out of it? A big zero. Instead thousands of US nationals lost their lives. Yet the govt persists. Iraq did not have an Al Quaida cell or terrorism before the war, but now it does. In Afganisthan, the Taliban and Al Quaida are resurgent. So now the US has to fight them on two fronts rather than one. So indirectly the US has encouraged terrorist acitivities. Did they get oil in return? Naah.
Iran was not a threat in the region due to the long standing rivalry with Iraq. Iraq in one way helped keep Iran in check. But with Iraq gone, Iran is a direct threat to the peace in the region, to the US national security and to the world at large. So who is to blame for that? The lame, short-sighted, arrogant, stupid George W Bush administration.
In short, whether the current govt admits to it or not, Iraq is turning out to be the second Vietnam for the United States of America.
The second presidential debate did not generate enough interest with regards to the content compared to the first one or the vice-presidential debate. Even the moderation policy was not up to the mark. But sure enough there were certain high points or rather low points of it. Once more McCain proved to be incompetent in arguments, misleading and condescending. This time though he showed another of facet to his character. Racism. Probably.
Yes folks. John McCain might very well prove to be a racist. This is not purely based on the scathing attack launched against Obama in Palin campaigns but on McCain’s own action. Check out the video below:
The video shows the candidates talking to the people after the second debate. From the video it was clear that Obama extended his hand to shake McCain’s but McCain chose not to reciprocate. Instead he pushed his wife in the way. Why would he do that? Surely smirks of racism.
