McCain picks Palin as VP Options

[Rogue_Ewok]

WTF? I guess he's lost it... I did not see this coming.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25970882/

Discuss.

[only-tuesdays]

I find it kind of ironic that Palin's seventeen year old daughter is pregnant and marrying her baby daddy. Palin, a strong abstinence only sex ed supporter.

[Ington]

I find it kind of ironic that Palin's seventeen year old daughter is pregnant and marrying her baby daddy. Palin, a strong abstinence only sex ed supporter.

Which means that she would be against abortion, not against pregnancy.

And ideals are nice, but they're ideals. So far the only thing that Obama has been 'trying' to do is to spout his ideals to everyone. I want someone who can do something, not someone who can try. This isn't daycamp.

[hi-C]

^ ... what does that contribute the the conversation at hand?

Which means that she would be against abortion, not against pregnancy.

The original poster, at least it seems to me, wasn't overtly critiquing Palin's pro-life stance.

And ideals are nice, but they're ideals. So far the only thing that Obama has been 'trying' to do is to spout his ideals to everyone. I want someone who can do something, not someone who can try. This isn't daycamp.

Firstly, what exactly does John McCain "doing"? What does he have that differs from an "ideology"?

Secondly, the president is becoming, increasingly, a figurehead. It's the legislature's job to write and pass laws, the president just puts them into play, either signing them into law or vetoing them. And he, whoever he is, going to have a whole joint chiefs of staff and cabinet to have the same ideas that he does to make sure he does what he says he's going to do. You know, system of checks and balances. (Which is the reason why I don't have a problem with an "inexperienced" president.) And, as a someone who's against the war(s), who's intensely pro-choice, who wants to see investment into alternative forms of energy, who doesn't want to see offshore drilling, etc, I'd rather have that set of ideals guide the country.

And before anyone dismisses this me as another Obama fangirl, please know that in the primaries, my favorites were Ron Paul, Joe Biden, and Bill Richardson. I only came around to Obama as kind of a last resort.

Wait... I remember your screename from ages ago...