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:::One question I ask about potential VP candidates is a simple one - if their running mate died between winning the election and being inaugurated, would this person be ready to be a credible, effective President, and would the restof the world agree or try to take advantage of a perceived weakness?  Palin has potential, but having only been a small-city mayor, and then the Governor of a state holding only 0.22% of the U.S. population for a couple of years, she simply doesn't have the qualifications to lead the western world yet.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 19:36, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

:::One question I ask about potential VP candidates is a simple one - if their running mate died between winning the election and being inaugurated, would this person be ready to be a credible, effective President, and would the restof the world agree or try to take advantage of a perceived weakness?  Palin has potential, but having only been a small-city mayor, and then the Governor of a state holding only 0.22% of the U.S. population for a couple of years, she simply doesn't have the qualifications to lead the western world yet.  --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 19:36, 2 September 2008 (EDT)

::::Well, I saw Palin's acceptance speech, and unfortunately wasn't that impressed.  In her defense, the McCain team had prepared the "core" speech that would be delivered by whoever he selected, so instead of delivering her own words from the heart she was reading a generic attack speech that was modified to also introduce a little-known Governor to the American public [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html].  I was impressed with her comfort in speaking, but in the end I still learned more about her from my own reading and research than anything in the speech.  Where are the specifics about what she stands for?  Advocacy for special-needs parenting aside, what did we learn that Sarah Palin was adding to this ticket that wasn't going to have been read from the teleprompter by whoever was picked?  I'm hoping that once the convention's over, we'll finally get to see some interviews of Palin by the media, and learn who she is from answers in her own words instead of a speechwriters. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 23:43, 3 September 2008 (EDT)

::::Well, I saw Palin's acceptance speech, and unfortunately wasn't that impressed.  In her defense, the McCain team had prepared the "core" speech that would be delivered by whoever he selected, so instead of delivering her own words from the heart she was reading a generic attack speech that was modified to also introduce a little-known Governor to the American public [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2008/09/putting_words_in_palins_mouth.html].  I was impressed with her comfort in speaking, but in the end I still learned more about her from my own reading and research than anything in the speech.  Where are the specifics about what she stands for?  Advocacy for special-needs parenting aside, what did we learn that Sarah Palin was adding to this ticket that wasn't going to have been read from the teleprompter by whoever was picked?  I'm hoping that once the convention's over, we'll finally get to see some interviews of Palin by the media, and learn who she is from answers in her own words instead of a speechwriters. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 23:43, 3 September 2008 (EDT)