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'Ideas and passion'
Sen. Hillary Clinton keeps persevering on experience. She says that she has 35 years of experience, and that Sen. Barack Obama has a speech. Sen. Obama was also right. He said that the Iraq war was a bad idea, let alone that it was downright wrong.
Let's look at it this way: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had more government experience than just about anyone else. See how they did? Don't you just love this economy? Don't you just love paying nearly $2 billion a week for an illegal, immoral war? Don't you just love the fear-mongering being perpetrated daily by the Bush administration?
Experience isn't all it's cracked up to be. There was one man who also "didn't have enough experience." He was elected president. His name was John F. Kennedy.
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Palin keeps low-profile after surprise news
Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is staying out of the public eye after her surprise announcement that she will leave office more than a year before her term is complete.
Her spokesman, David Murrow, confirms Palin is in Juneau this weekend for the state capital's Fourth of July celebrations. But she hasn't appeared at any public events.
Palin shocked even her closest friends Friday when she called a news conference at her house in suburban Wasilla, outside Anchorage, and said she planned to step down as Alaska governor on July 26.
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Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month.
After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a "higher calling" to unite the country along conservative lines.
"I am now looking ahead and how we can advance this country together with our values of less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security, and much-needed fiscal restraint," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote in a posting on her Facebook page. Palin's spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, confirmed Palin wrote the entry.
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Palin returns to work, defends decision to resign
Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the spotlight Tuesday with an appearance in a remote Arctic village where she stood by her perplexing decision to resign just as she tries to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run.
Palin signed a bill in this small town 30 miles north of the Arctic circle that is intended to bolster law enforcement in Alaska villages. She was greeted with cheers by about 300 people and briefly took the floor to dance to the beat of Inupiat Eskimo drummers. Many lingered to get their pictures taken with the popular Republican governor and former vice presidential candidate.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Palin defended her decision to step down after a year in which she has been bombarded with a series of ethics complaints that have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to investigate.
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Rove: Palin resignation part of a 'risky strategy'
One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term - and leave office before finishing her first - simply doesn't make sense in a conventional political setting. Karl Rove, a longtime Bush counselor, said Palin has engaged in a "risky strategy."
Then again, the pair said, Palin has never been a conventional candidate and her stunning announcement on Friday is what they have come to expect from the Republicans' 2008 vice presidential candidate.
Reading letters to the editor, many people question Sen. John McCain's choice for vice president. Sarah Palin has no foreign policy experience, but neither does Barack Obama. She is an "unknown," but so was Sen. Obama. She has little experience in government, but as governor of Alaska, it appears she has more experience and accomplishments than Sen. Obama.
This leads to an important question -- not whether Gov. Palin is "ready to be one heartbeat away from the most powerful position on the planet," but if Sen. Obama is ready to be in that position.
I respect John McCain's choice. I do not feel his decision insults my "female Democratic" intelligence, nor do I feel his selection for vice president degraded his "maverick" image, but rather increased it. Before Nov. 4, I will scrutinize both parties' stances on a number of important issues, avoid stagnating on one or two, and disregard non-related topics (i.e. family issues, Sen. Obama's ties to a religious leader and Gov. Palin's 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy).
After all is analyzed, I may vote Republican, because, in my humble opinion, what is good for the U.S. is more important than party affiliation.
Durinda Montoya
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