I really had fun listening to her in Dayton today. I mean here is someone fresh and knows what she is up against.
Already the Obama camp is saying she lacks experience and all that, I am waiting for real bad things to be said, because I don’t think she is going to back down. They can’t figure out how to handle all of this because she carriers an 80% approval rating, she is working for reform and she is a no BS girl. The dems like women to follow instructions and stay where they can use them the most.
But I want to say two things that may be important to a lot of people.
1- I don’t understand why Obama picked Biden other than the powers to be told him to. Here is someone who has been in the Senate since 1972, since Nixon and has been wrong a lot of times, leans towards the racist part of attitudes and really is not as respected outside of the democratic circle. The speech Obama gave seems to be an accumulation of the same thing that was said in the last two elections, maybe even going back to 1988. He has stood on this ridicules change platform but didn’t reach out to anyone other than old party members, Kennedy, BIden and so on. I said this before, if he wanted to change things, he needed to start them in the senate – “look what bills I introduced” type examples, but he hasn’t. He has not even worked across the aisle enough to show any experience. However between Biden and Obama, they have a combination of Zero experience leading anything, they have both come from a rather upper crust background, going to Harvard is not working you way though school Barak. The point is that we have here two serious insiders with a lot of baggage who want to run the country without the leadership skills or the attitude needed to do the job.
2 – there are a lot of angry women out there who counted on Hillary to become the nominee and to get the backing of people like Kennedy. The Dems let these women down, and Kennedy from what I have read got some really bad and nasty mail over his backing of Obama. These women are angry at the democratic party, they wanted to see this glass ceiling broken, but instead here is another insider who cares about nothing. I listened to two analyst today on opposites ends of the spectrum, one claiming that the VP pick of McCain will kill McCain’s chances and the other saying the complete opposite. I think it will help a lot, if not win the election for McCain. What I see is that the die hard women who wanted to see Hillary in, will still vote for Obama because they listen to these people like they are Gods, but the rest of them who may be as high as 95% of the democrat women, may decide to go for McCain/Palin. I don’t think Obama has made any history other than false history by being the dems poster child for change, we have had black candidates before in the presidential race, no big deal there, even had a few who had a large amount of TV coverage but what I think is real history is Palin is history. The dems failed to put anyone up there that really represents a new beginning for both the party and the country, Obama is far from anything that is needed to breach the glass anything we have left in this country but the repubs have. (Remember that black men in this country have broken the glass barrier but women have not.) The thing I think is very significant is that Palin now represents 53% (based on census est) of the population across all racial lines where as Obama only represented 13.4% of the population to one race that the voters can actually relate to. Taking this one step further, the mother quality has a huge advantage with the female voter because unlike Michelle Obama, someone who talks about how hard it was to raise kids and pay off school loans but defers to being only proud of her country because her husband is becoming a candidate for president, Palin on the other hand actually has and still is raising kids, works as Governor and still finds time to help out in her husband work and be active outdoors. For a large percentage of women who are raising kids, struggling with bills and trying to balance life, they relate to the hardships and challenges that she faced and still faces.