{"id":2504,"date":"2008-08-29T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T18:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2008-08-29T18:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:17:25","slug":"left-flailing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"Left flailing around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To continue along the same line as COB6&#8217;s post below, this is what passes for journalism at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080829\/ap_on_el_pr\/cvn_veepstakes_analysis\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/palin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2505\" title=\"palin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/palin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/palin.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/palin-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first few lines, AP calls Palin &#8220;inexperienced&#8221;, &#8220;risky&#8221;, &#8220;a governor for less than 20 months&#8221;, and a &#8220;darkhorse&#8221;. Obama spokespeople have been on Fox News the last hour beginning each of their memo recitations with &#8220;let&#8217;s be real&#8221;&#8230;that seems to be their line for Palin.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that Obama has &#8220;a decade&#8221; of experience. As a leader? Nope as a legislator. As a &#8220;community activist&#8221; whatever the Hell that is.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin&#8217;s 20 months as governor is more experience than Obama&#8217;s 3 years in the Senate &#8211; half of which he&#8217;s been campaigning for the presidency. Sarah Palin has commanded her own state&#8217;s National Guard and she&#8217;s been to Iraq as many times as Obama &#8211; visiting her own troops and not on a campaign swing.<\/p>\n<p>Will men jump to Obama? The men who end up the subject\u00a0 of a Lifetime Channel movie, maybe. No conservative I know would jump to a socialist just because they won&#8217;t vote for a woman. How many times have you heard men admit that they&#8217;d &#8220;vote for a woman, just not that Clinton woman&#8221;? No thinking independent would jump to Obama just because of gender issues &#8211; that&#8217;s shallow.<\/p>\n<p>How does McCain choosing Palin negate the McCain line that Obama is inexperienced? Obama is running to be President &#8211; he&#8217;s admitted that he doesn&#8217;t have time for on-the-job training. Palin is ready from day one &#8211; she&#8217;s had more experience leading our largest State, operating the same mechanisms of our federal government on a smaller scale&#8230;she&#8217;s already had her on-the-job training. She&#8217;s no less experienced than Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter were on their first respective day. Obama, on the other hand, is less experienced than Clinton or Carter.<\/p>\n<p>Palin and McCain compliment each other&#8230;each fills the other&#8217;s shortcomings. All of this flailing around the Left is doing is just throwing stuff against the wall hoping to find something that sticks. But it makes them look foolish while they highlight the shortcomings of their own ticket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> And that excitement thing for the McCain ticket that our resident troll, has been flapping his gums about for the last several months. Well, now it&#8217;s there. I&#8217;ve been getting emails from bloggers and others expressing the same level of excitement as <a href=\"http:\/\/rachellucas.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/29\/sarah-palins-got-your-hope-n-change-right-here-bucko\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Lucas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/08\/29\/poll-time-are-you-pumped\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> asks her readers if they&#8217;re pumped for McCain now. The results will send a certain troll to his closet rocking in the fetal position in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue along the same line as COB6&#8217;s post below, this is what passes for journalism &hellip; <a title=\"Left flailing around\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2504\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Left flailing around<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}