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Home Front: Politix
No Class: Obamanauts lash out at Palin
2008-08-29
Jim Geraghty, National Review

Team Obama cannot even say, "Congratulations, Governor Palin, we look forward to a spirited race." Nope, first thing they do is attack, attack, attack:

Barack Obama's campaign is blasting John McCain for putting "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."
As opposed to a community organizer with zero foreign policy experience .. and zero executive experience .. and few acomplishments ...
The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, comes as Democrats scramble to gather a response to a selection that nobody in the political world expected.
Maybe not in their world, but her name's been floating around for months as a potential VP. People wrote articles about her an' everything.
"Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade,
"She has babies instead of aborting them. Da noive a' dat dame!"
the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," added Burton.

Democrats will likely push the inexperience line against Palin as they race to comb oppo files from Wasilla to Juneau.

First, after spending the entire campaign talking about how experience isn't everything, Barack Obama, who's never held a full-time job for four years, cannot start hitting her on inexperience.

Rove just called the response "petty and small," and boy, this is going to just further convince the Pumas that sexism drives the Obama campaign.
It also illustrates that these clowns have no class.
The opposite of "no class" is "class."

UPDATE: The guys on Fox News note that the Obama campaign can't even bring themselves to call her "Governor Palin." That response is going to blow up in their faces.
Posted by:Mike

#11  
One of my favorite lines in her remarks:


As commander of the Alaska National Guard .....


heh.  It's true - she is.  
Posted by: lotp   2008-08-29 20:20  

#10  Ah, the smell of fear and panic. Be civil. Be polite. But give them no quarter.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-08-29 19:54  

#9   As an Alaskan who doesn't always see eye-to-eye with Palin...I will say this: she new her last child had Down's well before son was born

Mouse, we had our first child later in life. When my wife was about four months along, the hospital was insistent she come in for an amniocentesis. When she asked why this was so important, their response was, roughly, that because of our relatively advanced ages we might have a Down's Syndrome baby. They just automatically assumed if that was the case we would then want an abortion. I guess lots of people do.

My wife told them she wasn't interested and we'd take whatever we got. They seemed pretty surprised at that attitude.

That she and her husband would know they were having a Down's baby and would keep it anyway speaks volumes about their sense of values. I'm deeply impressed with Sarah Palin and her husband. It's politics, so I'm sure I'll have some quibbles with her policies at some point, but I've got a feeling she's always going to have my respect. Plus, moving from Alaska to DC is no small sacrifice, particularly for her family. It's admirable she was willing to take this job on.

This was a brilliant move by Johnny Mac!
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-08-29 19:41  

#8  Beavis, she actually said, "If we want a brifge, we'll build it ourselves".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2008-08-29 19:11  

#7  As an Alaskan who doesn't always see eye-to-eye with Palin...I will say this: she new her last child had Down's well before son was born.
Posted by: anymouse   2008-08-29 16:46  

#6  To the whining Obamanauts I extend the famous Scottish Haka!
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-08-29 14:54  

#5  She called out Ted Stevens and didn't want the 'bridge to nowhere'.

“Bridge to nowhere”

Gov. Sarah PalinÂ’s decision to drop the $398 million Ketchikan bridge project came as a shock to the congressional delegation.

Aides to all three members of the delegation said their offices were not contacted about the decision prior to the governorÂ’s announcement. The first time anyone in Washington became aware of it was when an Associated Press story out of Juneau appeared on the Internet on Friday.
Posted by: Beavis    2008-08-29 14:36  

#4  And, of course, Governor Palin has accomplishments. She's a sitting governor. She's gotten things done. She's handled a budget. She's a mover in the National Governors Association.

She's also a true reformer. She stood up to her own party establishment on several occasions, as opposed to Senator Obama who never once took on the Daleys and the Outfit.

And she, like Senator McCain, will have a son serving in Iraq. These folks walk the walk.
Posted by: Steve White   2008-08-29 13:22  

#3  More proof of McCain's shrewdness. They can't attack her lack of experience without highlighting their own. The more they attack her, the more Clinton supporters will support her.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-08-29 13:01  

#2  Does the Obama campaign really want to compare themselves to Palin's lack of experience? And the VP's duties primarily consists of going to funerals.
Posted by: ed   2008-08-29 12:55  

#1  Barack Obama's campaign is blasting John McCain for putting "the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency."

They're swinging wildly. The counter is "a former Illinois state senator with zero foreign policy into the presidency".
Plus, her being "the former mayor of a town of 9,000' actually gives her more executive expierence then Obama.
Honestly? I think they don't know how to deal with this.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-08-29 12:53  

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