Author: luken7

I just had this vision of Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat reading a bedtime story to children titled, “Palin Goes to the City”. Please SNL, bring back Eddie just to do that skit. And then another skit of Tina Fey playing Palin sitting at a school desk with just the teacher learning where the other major countries are. “No, No, this is Canada, not eastern Alaska” as he points over Calgary.

But anyway, Mrs. Palin is venturing to the big city, to go in a big building, with a lot of important people. What do you think she will do, children? Will she piss of the world community? Will she talk about her bridge to nowhere that she turned down? How about family values and starting families early.

BTW, Sarah, call me if you need directions to the U.N., even I’ve been there before. Oh, add that to my list of why I’m more qualified than you (see earlier post).  Add oddly enough, for some strange reason, the media was kept away as much as possible. For a V.P. candidate that is qualified to step in as president, they sure keep her under wraps, don’t they? I can’t wait for the VP debates. I’m actually looking forward to that more than Obama/McBush.

Talking Georgia With Kissinger | 4 p.m. Gov. Sarah Palin wrapped her first day of motorcade diplomacy with a 90-minute meeting with Henry Kissinger, where they spoke about Georgia.

Ms. Palin and Mr. Kissinger sat on blue couches, separated by an end table with photographs of President Nixon and President Reagan on it. As photographers were led in, Mr. Kissinger could be heard saying that he gave someone “a lot of credit for what he did in Georgia,” according to a reporter who was allowed to watch.

“Good, good,’’ Ms. Palin said. “And you’ll give me more insight on that, also, huh? Good.”

The photographers were ushered out. When Ms. Palin emerged from the building, a news producer asked her how it went, and she mouthed the words, “It was great.”

Palin in the City – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com.

Well, well, well. Not only is she not qualified to be the Vice President, she doesn’t even show up for her current job. We keep hearing “While I was in Alaska as governor….” Well, what exactly did you do with your 15% attendance record of going into the office. I’m sure the Flat Earth Society will quickly adopt 21st century ideas and jump on the telecommuting bandwagon. Yeah, that’s what she was doing, telecommuting. I mean come on, 15%? We’re talking about 15% in the office? And then she bills the state for expenses related to staying home 85% of the time. In a normal environment, as a normal employee, she would have been fired. But oh yeah, she’s qualified. And if you think about it, with that attendance record, she just may be because the White House has been vacant of any relevant common sense lately anyway.

She doesn’t even show up for her own initiatives, leaving her own party to ask, “where’s the Gov?” What’s really funny is that legislatures got so fed up with it that they even printed buttons saying, “Where’s Sarah” 

Let me guess, she was home preaching family values…

Despite all of the discussion of Sarah Palin’s performance as governor of Alaska, there has been little analysis of the simplest measure of performance: attendance. As Woody Allen said many years ago, “80 percent of success is just showing up.”

The Washington Post recently reported that, in her first 19 months as governor, Palin billed the state of Alaska per diem charges for 312 days she spent at her home in Wasilla. Palin’s staff has explained that it was appropriate to bill the state for expenses related to Palin staying in her own house because her “official duty station” was at the state capital of Juneau, where the governor’s official office and mansion are located. But that argument raises a different question: How much time did that leave for her to spend at her “official duty station”?

Nineteen months totals 578 days, but after subtracting weekends and holidays, it is only about 397 workdays. Assuming Palin did not routinely bill the state for staying in her own home on weekends and holidays, she would have spent no more than 85 workdays in the state capital over the course of her 19 months in office, even if she traveled nowhere else in Alaska or outside of the state. That compares with 168 days that the Alaska Legislature was in session during the same period.

Playing hooky pays off for Palin – Scott Lilly – Politico.com

“The trip of a lifetime” should be called the lie of a lifetime. Why do you have to have official revisions to a past itinerary? Doesn’t she know where she went? Her ONLY trip outside of the United States was a brief stop in Kuwait, up to the border of Iraq. But they’ve been talking about her “trip of a lifetime” in visiting the battlefield in Iraq. Now it seems, that after the truth leaks out, we have revisions to the story.

Simply, the truth about Palin being the V.P is that John McCain purposely picked an “attractive” woman to grab the Hillary voters. And because she has no real experience and it’s starting to backfire, the McCain camp is having to pump up, or flat out fabricate her credentials.

So let’s compare Palin to myself as who is more qualified to be V.P.

They say she has foreign policy and relations experience because she’s been out of the country once, and Alaska is close to Russia, although she has never met any foreign dignitaries. I on the other hand have been to almost two dozen countries, lived overseas for six years, and can handle a small conversation in German to get around. I have also been in the presence of dignitaries and high ranking foreign dignitaries. I have documented proof for all of this so score one for me.

Palin’s qualifications to be Commander in Chief? She’s the governor which puts her in charge of the Alaska National Guard. Curious if she knows what the standing force is or if she even knows the name of the highest ranking enlisted person is. She probably met that person during her inauguration but probably doesn’t remember. Now I have served in the military for eight years, five overseas and three at Ft. Bragg, NC. I’m a combat veteran and have seen my share (and that’s all I will discuss). I have documented proof of this also so score a second mark in my column for me.

Palin is a white woman. I am a black man. Clearly there are more disgruntled black people than white women. If you’re going to pander to a certain group of people, pick someone who can grab more votes. Palin being a white woman, all she can get is the pissed off Hillary supporters from the Ohio valley, you know, that middle class working folk people. But if McCain really wants votes, he would score bigger with me because I bring the crossover vote. I’m a black male, so I can pick up black women and men. Also, I’m a minority, so I can get other minority votes like Hispanics and Latinos (what’s the difference between those two groups anyway, really, I don’t know). I even speak some spanish. “no que areo taco bell”, see? I can help with the Native (real) American vote as I know some. I can help with the Asian vote because I know someone that knows someone that met Tiger Woods, and he’s half Asian. So you see, if McCain is going to pander, pander for the most votes you can get. Don’t waste the selection on just one small segment. Now put that third check mark in my box.

Gov. Palin was a mayor of a small town and spent most of her time trying to burn books in the library. Big deal. I was the president of my Home Owners Association for over seven years and overseen an annual budget of over $14,000 dollars (as I hold my pinky up to my mouth). I’ve contributed to my county library system through late fees, increasing the amount of books. So I definitely have an advantage with managing the national economy there.

So there you have it, 4-0, I am definitely more qualified than Gov. Palin.

Palin camp clarifies extent of Iraq trip – The Boston Globe
Sarah Palins visit to Iraq in 2007 consisted of a brief stop at a border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait, the vice presidential candidates campaign said yesterday, in the second official revision of her only trip outside North America.

Following her selection last month as John McCains running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard. During that trip she was said to have visited a “military outpost” inside Iraq. The campaign has since repeated that Palins foreign travel included an excursion into the Iraq battle zone.

But in response to queries about the details of her trip, campaign aides and National Guard officials in Alaska said by telephone yesterday that she did not venture beyond the Kuwait-Iraq border when she visited Khabari Alawazem Crossing, also known as “K-Crossing,” on July 25, 2007.

Asked to clarify where she traveled in Iraq, Palins spokeswoman, Maria Comella, confirmed that “She visited a military outpost on the other side of the Kuwait-Iraq border.”

It was the second such clarification in as many weeks of the itinerary of what Palin has called “the trip of a lifetime.” Earlier, the campaign acknowledged that Palin made only a refueling stop in Ireland.