A Warm Welcome for Palin - Or is it?

Well, McCain has picked a running-mate from outside the beltway. Immediately, Joe Biden trounced on her percieved lack of experience and the media began lobbing bias grenades! So who is Palin really? If you listened to her speech, or went to the Alaskan Governor's website, you would know by now. A mother of five, the youngest of which is four months old, she took on beurocracy and corruption everywhere she found it. From the PTA, to the Mayorship of her small town - a nail in her experience coffin if you listen to the press - to the Governorship of the largest state in the Union. When Palin couldn't get the government to pay attention to her, she ran for office. When the next level up didn't listen, she ran for their office too! That is true American politics in the fashion of our forefathers.

Now the liberal media will not tell you about her real record. They want you to know about her neglecting her children, by running for VP instead of being by her four month-old down syndrome baby's side and by not having a 24 hour watch (or a chastity belt) on her 17 year-old daughter who has been engaged for some time now, and is now five months pregnant. They want to hit on the fact that she was "just a mayor of a small town of 7,000" while ignoring the fact that she was the Governor of the State of Alaska. They do not want you to know that she sold the Governor's Jet on E-bay, dismissed her State Trooper security detail, and drives her self to work every day! They also ignore the fact that she drives her children to school nearly every day and is home as much as most working moms.

This brings up an interesting point. Ok, Keith Doberman - you can't have it both ways. Obama was a community organizer for a radical socialist group (that is not a governmental position). Palin started out by taking over the PTA, and then ran for MAYOR (This IS a governmental position). Obama got into the State Senate by short-circuiting the democratic process and disqualifying all of his opponents. It's hard to lose when you run against yourself. Once in, he did not author a single significant piece of legislation - but was well known for swiping others' bills to sponsor when they were certain to pass (part of his grooming by the "good-old-boy network" he condemns). Since taking his office in the US Senate, he has done nothing at all - except run for office. Palin has no foreign policy experience. Not nearly as essential for the VP the first day in office. Obama made a speech in 2002, this makes him more experienced? Obama is running for President. He NEEDS to have this experience on his first day in office, and so far he has shown that he not only doesn't have it, he doesn't posess the good judgment to compensate.

You see, Obama has very little experience in anything that would show us he is the "change" we can believe in. Palin has little experience, but it has all been the deliberate and appropriate attack on those things that really need changing. She reduced her government's budget, she tossed ear-marks back at the Federal government, and she went after corruption. Obama has supported corrupt politicians and radical activists throughout his entire political "career". Palin's politial career has shown that she not only intended to make a difference, but that she succeeded in making signinficant differences in each office she held. As I see it, Obama's use of office was only as a stepping stone to the White House.

Now, the media has crucified Palin for not placing her family first. If it were accurate, I would say they should give it no more consideration than that of the more than 100,000 men and women serving in combat as I write this posting who have also put their contry before family. Why is it that these individuals (rightly so) are heroes for leaving behind their families, who often struggle to make ends meet while they spend months or years in mortal danger, while a woman running for a political office that would place her children within a 10 minute car ride from her office is unfit for command for placing her duty first? Perhaps it is because she has a 17 year-old daughter that is pregnant. This is not the fault of the parents. You cannot hold an adolescent/young adult's hand every minute of every day. Even with the best rules and best encouragement, they sometimes stray. Perhaps it is the four month old baby with down sysdrome. Well, for the first four years, this child will need no more or less parental care than any other infant or toddler, the baby's condition is not relevant. Again, Palin will be even closer to her children than she is now, and will have the best available medical staff at her disposal should the youngest child need additional medical care.

If we want to throw stones on this topic, why is it a woman running as a VP nominee is somehow less responsible than the man running for the highest office in the land, with two children of his own under the age of 10?

The reason is clear. Palin is a strong candidate, with strong experiencial credits, and the Liberal press cannot attack these. If they talk about this, they will have to concede that the Republican VP pick is more qualified for President than the Democrats' Presidential nominee.