I believe that Sarah Palin brings as much baggage as she does advantage to the GOP ticket. Conservatives will like that she is pro-life and the fact that she has passed state legislation giving gays rights to civil unions (which allows them to share benefits) but bans marriage. She has made some savvy moves to win the elections she has been involved in so far, but she is about to step onto a much larger stage.
The GOP will now be hard pressed to sell McCain's experience over Obamas while his own running mate has even less. I dont believe her views on the enviroment are going to play well on the national stage either.
My largest concern with her is being a heartbeat away from the big chair and little to no experience on foreign policy. If McCain were to fall to severe illness or (God forbid) even worse she would have a very hard trial-by-fire. While McCain does appear to be very spry for his age, there is no doubt that the pressure of the Oval Office is second to none...just check out the before and after pictures of almost any previous President.
Many have made the similar issue about Obama and his experience, but the same was said of both Clinton as well as Kennedy years ago and both of those men did this country a lot of good.
To be a graduate of Columbia Univ (political science and foreign policies) and then a magna cum laude Harvard Law graduate, while being president of the Harvard Law review for three of his four years there...his years of public service to the City of Chicago as well as teaching Constitutional Law at University of Chicago for ten years, then his two years of state house work and on to two years in the US Senate...I think give Obama a pretty fair base of knowledge and experience to go forward on.
This country has grown on change it entire life...this country was born on the fact that we wanted things different than England would allow. Over the years we have scowled at many who came to these shores. We broke treaty after treaty with the Native Indians, we persecuted the Irish and the Italians when they came...we brought the Chinese to build railroads as well as the Africans
to work plantations. we have seen women gain the right to vote and the list goes on.
The inscription on the Statue of Liberty says to the world that this is the land of promise...and we have made that work be cause freedom allows us to be a plural society...the changes have never been easy ones but each one has made us stronger as a nation. 9/11 proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that this country can throw down its differences of race,religion or sex and drive toward a common goal...it showcased how both human and humane we truly can be.
Our Government needs to serve the needs of its people and not it contributor list. It needs to honor those who serve it with the best it has to offer and it needs to make certain our elderly and afflicted recieve the care they deserve after so many years of hard work. The wealthy have already proven that these are not their priorities or it would have been solved long ago before soaring profits ever took place.
People need to be treated like people, not numbers on page. I'm not saying Obama will make all this happen because change in this country is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. You dont spin it on a dime...but I do think he is pointing in that direction and I dont think bolstering the middle class is socialism...I think its putting your money on the winning team. When the middle class does well, the economy and the country as whole do well. I'm sure the wealthy dont agree with that but a few of them dont get new yachts in favor of more people getting health care or tax deductible college tuition then I'll sleep just fine.
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