Have Gun, Will Travel. Sarah Palin a Good VP pick?

[Yeager]

There really is no job that prepares one best for being president.  

Dang, you is smart!

[Yeager]

I agree.  And I have some qualifications though.  If the gazillion gets divvied up at the top, so all of you get an extra 15K boost per year, I say "no." 

In 2007, the top 50 hedge-fund managers were paid 50 billon dollars.  That's 1 billion each.  That's 20 million a week.  Did I get the decimal point right?  Too many zeroes for me to calculate accurately.  I run out of fingers and toes.

so your proposal is to put a cap on what amount of money people can make?  Or even better, take most of what certain people make and give it to the masses not smart enough or hard working enough to make their own fortunes.

? 

[Elfie]

Also, She might shut down drilling for oil in places' like the arctic National wildlife refuge, as she has had a conservationist stance. This could also stretch to offshore drilling in other places, although that hasn't been proven.

Actually Frode, just the opposite is true, she is for drilling in ANWR (and apparently so are most of Alaskans). If I irrc that drilling policy also extends to offshore as well.

[Eagler]

I don't think this woman is a bad pick it is a strategic move & some what risky for Senator MC Cain it could back fire. When it is all said & done from what I have seen here in the USA most people are not going to the poles to vote for a Vice President it is for the top job President. After the debates of the respective VP's are over either of them will matter not.

considering one just turned 72 and the other is black, their veep choices have never meant more ...

[Dead Man Flying]

Dang, you is smart!

Thanks for a further positive contribution to this thread!   

[Tango]

There really is no job that prepares one best for being president.

Vice President????????????

[texasmom]

Vice President????????????

     

[bj229r]

'Foreign policy experience' It has been pointed out several times that she has none. On the other hand, Palin as an outsider is viewed as a positive. Question: HOW can one have 'foreign policy experience', without being a Washington insider?

[Urthona]

Re:  Experience

Obama built and runs an organization that beat the Clintons in the primaries.  This says a lot about his executive capabilities.

Palin is a popular governor in a state with so much surplus cash from high oil profits that she can propose giving it away. http://www.adn.com/front/story/442702.html
Palin might be very capable, but how many states have too much cash?  It makes governing a state, especially one with a population the size of a large city, much easier.

[Elfie]

The State of Alaska gives cash back to every resident each year from oil profits. An additional payment to help out with high energy costs when oil profits are at their highest is not surprising.

[DREDIOCK]

Considering it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the letter in question about the intent of the 1st Amendment, well I'll take his word on it.

Thomas Jefferson wasnt even in the country at the time the first amendment was written.
He was in France.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Thomas Jefferson wasnt even in the country at the time the first amendment was written.
He was in France.

He's not talking about Jefferson writing the 1st Amendment, but rather he is desperately trying to use the letter as evidence of intention. Not that it matters, since the phrase or clause he's trying to invoke is not in the Constitution OR the Bill of Rights, or, for that matter, in any of the subsequent amendments. But he won't let that stop him.

[sprattjack]

This thread needs a nap.

[Tango]

I heard she after she became she laid off the cook at mansion and sold the govenors plane.

I think that shows just how shes gonna be working in Washington. Get rid of the pork and wastfull spending.

[texasmom]

Obama built and runs an organization that beat the Clintons in the primaries.  This says a lot about his executive capabilities.

Actually, when you think of the shredding machine that the Clintons are capable of becoming, that is an accomplishment.  I assume that there was some outstanding counter-dirty-work required to be in play there which Obama was sly enough to not reveal to the public.  Would be an interesting story to hear about.