So much for the experience issue

August 30, 2008

With McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin (who?) as his running mate, I think everyone agrees that experience is no longer considered a necessary qualification for the presidency. Actually, I think this says a lot more about McCain’s approach to leadership and problem-solving than anything about Palin.

Struggling in the polls, publicity, and funding, needing to re-assure his conservative base of his pro-life credentials and to focus on the “crack” in the Democratic party, McCain picks Palin who has got to be the only pro-life, female governor with a Downs-syndrome baby. Qualifications certainly didn’t figure into the equation. And he accuses Obama of putting politics before the welfare of the country?

If this is how the man makes decisions in a “crisis,” what can we expect from him as president? Address the immediate crisis in the most expedient manner possible regardless of future implications or past statements to the contrary? Oh, is that the “maverick” part?

Let’s face it, McCain is desperate and is shooting from the hip. Of course, while some shots from the hip will hit the target, many more will result in “collateral” damage. Is this the way we want to run our country?

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