So what you’re saying is that people who don’t spend 50+ years in congress have nothing to offer as President? That Obama should’ve “known his place”. How elitist of you.

Being a Senator for years and running for President multiple times, meaning that he spent years in pursuit of the WH, entitles McCain to respect, but Obama as a first term Senator winning the Presidency deserves your contempt?

President Obama is an intelligent, well educated individual who is globally sophisticated and understands the changing role of the US both domestically and internationally, and who embodied an entirely different set of values from the Bush administration, which captured the imagination of the nation and the world, and swept him into office with a convincing majority.

NONE of which entitles him to any level of respect in your opinion?

…and now Obama is the president, where he can do more for us than he could as a senator.

What a country!

Good luck with “how many houses” McCain on that.

Of course, McCain didn’t make that money himself. His mistress had it, and he cheated on his wife to get close to it, so I guess normal rules don’t apply.

And it bothers that so many Senators and Congressman are rich, whatever party they are in.

I have suggested several times in the past, in this Blog and elsewhere that all Senators and Congressman be paid the Median wage for their family size. When they have done what is necessary to raise it for everyone, then they can have a raise

/shiver

It’s gonna be awesome seeing her destroyed in 2012.

Didn’t bother you that Senator McCain did the same damn thing?

Checked the calendar lately?

BUSH IS GONE HOMEBOY.

Unlike Congressional GOP members who proudly ran away from a simple question; do they believe President Obama is a citizen of the US?

I thought part of the reason she was leaving office was because of the “unfair” scrutiny her family faced as the first family of Alaska. She’s going to leave the spotlight by appearing on all the talking head shows and doing paid speaking engagements?

Of course, wingnut welfare is one of the biggest industries in the country.

She’s just dumb enough to be the next President!

You said the exact same thing about Condi.

The Republicans now have Twitter and FaceBook

Welcome to 2007.

And I was not saying that she was quitting to make money. She left office because she was losing money every day, due to suits bought by the “morally superior” , “ethically superior” left.

What’s with the quotes? We ARE ethically and morally superior to you.

What do you have against Ron Paul? He’s loony, but at least his looniness has internal consistency.

Actually, it was “for the good of Alaska.” Anytime you can improve a situation by leaving it, you are not contributing much to it.

No amount of training or tutoring will make her competent. She’s a figurehead, not unlike Reagan, but at least he understood that he was an actor, that his job was to read the lines and stand in the right place. He knew that he didn’t write the script and wasn’t actually in charge. She thinks she is.

Oh, Pleasepleaseplease!

The reason libruls are so obsessed with her is we want to make sure she sticks around long enough to run in 2012.

I hope you get your wish. On another thread I posed a nutwing comment from another blog about how they couldn’t wait for her to debate Obama.

Me neither. This woman is not the type who can think on her feet. Or sitting down.

I don’t believe that’s a reason she gave for resigning when she announced her reasons for resigning. Closest would be “so that this administration [minus her, of course] … can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.” That isn’t “so he’s got a better short at winning”.

See, here’s the thing, Frank. I’m not comfortable with taking a “well it’s no worst than your candidate” approach to justifying my candidate. I don’t want my side to be no worse that yours. I want mine to be BETTER. (Which, despite the debatable irrelevancies you claim as noteworthy, I believe he is.)

I think it’s very telling that you’re immediate response is both “Look, over there!” and “Well yours is bad, too!” Neither of which says much positive about your candidate or, frankly, you.