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SensationalCeline, on Feb 1 2009, 01:30 PM, said:

Alizé, on Jan 22 2009, 12:04 PM, said:

In reference to earlier comments, I don't think Palin is stupid - I just don't think she was right/ready for the job. I also think she was used by the McCain camp - sort of as a scapegoat. What happened on Nov. 5th? (And even a little before then...) The McCain camp started to unravel. It was a huge blame game complete with pointing fingers! They trashed Palin and accused her not only of being unintelligent, but greedy, too! What a way to treat your own and to completely take the blame off of yourself.

This being said, I am not and never was for McCain/Palin but you have to admit, no matter who you voted for, it was a complete mess the day after the election. What a shame! And to think, they could have been leading our country today.

Well, I will probably get jumped for saying my opinion and have everyone all over my a$$ for saying that I think that Palin was right for the job.  I think that people were just scared to have a female president because this country has been run by men.  Well, men don't always do that great a job at everything.  The female barrier has been broken for so many things so hopefully in 2012, it can be broken for this too.

Actually, from the beginning I was torn between Hillary Clinton and Obama - leaning more towards Clinton than Obama until midway to the end of the race. I'm sure there are people out there intimidated by the idea of a woman president but there are always supporters and believers of just about everything - wouldn't you agree? That being said, I honestly don't think that  fear of a female president was the real issue with Sarah Palin.

What makes you feel Palin was qualified for the '08 election? I'd love to see what she does with herself in the next few years. Experience wasn't the only reason I wasn't a Palin supporter (and gender/race was never an issue).

Edited by Alizé, 01 February 2009 - 04:35 PM.

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Palin is smart, number one.  I don't see why everyone bashed her about the Africa thing.  If you were being hounded with a thousand and one questions, then you'd probably forget too.  Also, Palin was bashed for being a diva, which she was NOT and she was hounded for spending large amounts of money on clothing but nothing was mentioned about the millions that Obama spent on his suits.  What's the difference really, because she's a woman? Secondly, if she didn't have "experience" then why would she be governor of Alaska? That qualifies as experience for me and as for other types around the world, McCain has been enough places to know what he was doing because he was a war veteran. And I believe that racial/gender issues was a huge part of this race and still stand strongly by what I said in the previous post.  

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Well, Obama won and right from that start, i believe in him more than Mccain.