US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has picked Sarah Palin, the female governor of Alaska, as his surprise running mate, US media say. At 44, she is younger than Barack Obama and is credited with reforms during her first term, but she is relatively unknown in US politics. Mr McCain is due to present her on stage at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate his 72nd birthday. Analysts say the Republican is keen to wrest back headlines from Mr Obama. Ms Palin is perhaps the most daring vice-presidential choice for Mr McCain, the BBC's Kim Ghattas reports from Dayton. The two most likely choices were, until recently, former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty. A staunch opponent of abortion, Ms Palin is married with five children.
US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has picked Sarah Palin, the female governor of Alaska, as his surprise running mate, US media say.
At 44, she is younger than Barack Obama and is credited with reforms during her first term, but she is relatively unknown in US politics.
Mr McCain is due to present her on stage at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, to celebrate his 72nd birthday.
Analysts say the Republican is keen to wrest back headlines from Mr Obama.
Ms Palin is perhaps the most daring vice-presidential choice for Mr McCain, the BBC's Kim Ghattas reports from Dayton.
The two most likely choices were, until recently, former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty.
A staunch opponent of abortion, Ms Palin is married with five children.
Hear she's big on the rights of the unborn front. Might get in a few of the evangelicals. Stupid choice, otherwise.
I suspect the choice of Palin adds to the possibility of martial law before the election, since there's no way she would be allowed to be anything other than a marionette, if that, should anything happen to the aged POW. But i do think it's kind of brilliant picking a non-entity for the second highest post in the land, not counting coca-cola CEO. Could mean they know there's not a chance in hell, unless something perverse were to happen. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Ferraro Feeds Identity Politics [Kathryn Jean Lopez]From Fox: GERALDINE FERRARO: It's going to be a very interesting campaign. I must say that several months ago I said that it would be great if there was a woman on the ticket, that I felt that John McCain would have to pick someone, especially if Hillary was the nominee, but without Hillary being the nominee it's really quite equally as important, because people are looking for a historic campaign, and I think this might do it. There are a lot of women who are disaffected by how Hillary was treated by the media, by how she was treated by the Obama campaign, by how she was treated by the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean not speaking up when sexism raised its ugly head in the media. (Inaudible)
Ferraro Feeds Identity Politics [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From Fox:
GERALDINE FERRARO: It's going to be a very interesting campaign. I must say that several months ago I said that it would be great if there was a woman on the ticket, that I felt that John McCain would have to pick someone, especially if Hillary was the nominee, but without Hillary being the nominee it's really quite equally as important, because people are looking for a historic campaign, and I think this might do it. There are a lot of women who are disaffected by how Hillary was treated by the media, by how she was treated by the Obama campaign, by how she was treated by the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean not speaking up when sexism raised its ugly head in the media. (Inaudible)
people are looking for a historic campaign, and I think this might do it.
Because, after all, having a black and a women vying for the Democratic presidential nomination has been done so many times before.
In other words, WHEN THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO GROW UP ?!!! In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
yuck
Crazy Horse got Ferraro cooties! Crazy Horse got Ferraro cooties!
(I try to keep my ET contributions on a high intellectual level. :-)
Luckily, as i try to eat organically, except at party conventions, the cooties did not take hold, did not take hold, didnottakehold... "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
From my email box:
But what really disgusted me was the wholesale destruction of aboriginal life. Removed from their dignified struggle to steward their environment, alcoholism had taken its place, and dignity had vanished. The symbol of intrusive idiocy was the Hickel Highway - a road driven across the permafrost tundra that in a few years, naturally, became a canal. You can't be me, I'm taken
support for the bridge to nowhere,
hehe. fox is already in gear claiming she is some kinda ethics-in-gvt whistleblower, against the bridge to nowhere!
best part: she was out with snowmobile international champ hubby hunting caribou at 4-30 am, when she got the phone call from her son, telling her she was on the ticket.
parody collapses in defeat before surreality
...again!
pro-life, pro-guns.. i love how they put those together all the time. sorta like the eco-insecticide i buy here, called ' bio-kill'! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
