Seems the Obama campaign was as suprised by the Sarah Palin VP announcement as everyone else, according to RealClearPolitics.
“Other than the announcement itself, the most interesting thing to happen yesterday was the Obama campaign’s confusion over its response to Sarah Palin. It was almost as if, having taken the bait, they suddenly realized what they had done. Almost as exciting as how Palin performs on the stump will be watching how the Obama campaign reacts. “
The first official response from the Obama camp was that “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” (read the full statement here). But as reported in Politico, Barack Obama has since toned down the rhetoric, releasing a joint statement with his VP pick, Joe Biden, with a more gracious statement which he reiterated at a campaign stop:
“I haven’t met her before. She seems like a compelling person … with a terrific personal story.
I’m sure that she will help make the case for Republicans, unfortunately the case is more of the same, and so ultimately John McCain is at the top of the ticket.”
Read the full story at Politico.
This is dotty stuff Dr Harvey. What kind of a doctor are you?
I heard McCain speeching today …
“Sarah is just what I need; she’s just exactly what America needs. She is the change; she can bring change, the real change that America needs”.
Looks like Sarah has given the ownership of ‘change’ to her new boss, Obama hasn’t noticed it missing from his cupboard yet.
On the 26th I said (in Crikey comments on Obama)
Yep, even I would have voted for Hils.
He should have let the crowd in Germany do his talking.
However they were cheering for relief from their deep depression with Bush America not a black man. Biden represents Obama’s shallow understanding of ‘change’ while he didn’t have the personal guts to nominate Hils and do an irresistible unsurpassable historic double.
Late on the 29th Sydney time I got the word from the US and wrote to Crikey
Dear Boss @ Crikey
You heard it from me first. Sarah Palin republican VP.
I commented via your (our) Crikey a few days ago that
Obama missed the unsurpassable & irresistible historic double bang (BANG) of a ‘first black and first woman’ ticket by not having the guts to take Hillary with him.
McCain is on to it; at least he can see an irresistible opening.
Palin to Putin will be hot and interesting. Real anti-corruption guts VS corruption kinG.
Dr Harvey M Tarvydas
Psychology, psychology, psychology is everything