Sarah Palin unveilin'. What was John McCain thinking? Do Americans know this lady who is Mayor... um I mean Governor, of Alaska. It's hard to distinguish between Mayor and Governor as Alaska's population is hardly bigger than that of Metro-Halifax.
So is Palin ready to deal with all the challenges facing the United States, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Russian invasion of Georgia, and nuclear weapons worries in Iran and North Korea? Especially as she has stated that, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
Has she got it? She's going to be only a heartbeat away from the Presidency, especially given McCain's age and history of cancer.
Palin is a totally unknown quantity with alot of baggage, including firing the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner, quite possibly on the grounds that he refused to fire her brother-in-law who was involved in a messy divorce with her sister. There is currently an investigation pending against her. You can click here for a good write-up on this issue.
Then there was the notorious "bridge to nowhere", Palin was "for it before she was against it."
Also more recently, amid rumours that her fifth child is not hers but rather her teenage daughter's, Palin has revealed that, while this rumour is untrue, her unmarried teenage daughter is pregnant - this won't sit well with many social conservatives.
As times goes by there may be more revelations, as it doesn't look she was properly vetted. McCain's decision to pick her as VP was hasty and last minute. Quite the contrast to Barack Obama who went through a long and careful vetting process to pick Joe Biden, a respected and long-serving Senator.
It looks that McCain will do anything to win an election, even to the detriment of the country's interests.
UPDATE: The revelations about, and allegations against, Palin just keep coming in. Could she have addressed the 2008 convention of a group whose aim is Alaskan independence from the United States?
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