Today John McCain picked the Governor of Alaska to be his running mate, his Vice President of the United States. A woman who has been the governor for 1.5 years and who was mayor of a small town before that (population around 9,000).
I'm positive she is a fine woman and a good mother to her five children. Let's be frank, however; how much real experience does a person get from governing a state with a population less than that of the entire City of Cincinnati? A state where the top employer's total workforce is less than 35,000 people! A state where the revenue from the oil being pumped from the ground is so great that they have given the people rebates where no taxes have been paid!
The people in our 50th state really do not have much in common with our many cities like Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, which all have larger populations than the entire State of Alaska.
One big difference is that all these cities have large poor groups of people who work hard, but have to live in less-than-decent housing and go to schools that simply don't do a great job of educating their children.
This selection is total desperation, trying to put life into a lost cause.
If he really had a need to pick a female to boost his chances of winning, he should have at least selected a person with some real experience and ability, who at the very least knows where 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is. One woman who could have filled that slot would be the Secretary of State.
John McCain, who truly was a war hero, doesn't have any more sense than our very own George W. Bush as to what is really going on inside inner America.
Take down your commercials about how inexperienced Obama is because selecting Sarah Palin for Vice President really makes a mockery out of the argument.
God Bless America; we certainly will need it if John McCain is our next president.
Paid for by Bob Klug for State Representative.
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