Palin

This is going to sound a lot like a rant, but it needs to be said.

Many people are now supporting McCain because he picked Sarah Palin as a running mate. Why? Because she's a woman. A younger, good-looking woman who has a son in the army and another child who has a disability. These facts do not, however, make her fit to be vice-president. People are losing sight of who she actually is and what the position of vice-president means. They gloss over the fact that a month before she was picked as VP, she didn't even know what the post entailed, she said so in an interview. It is incredibly hypocritical of the Republicans to say that Obama is young and has no experience to then pick a VP who is even younger than him and has absolutely no experience on the national level, or even in politics for that matter. Her record in Alaska hardly does her credit as well. She supported pork-barrel legislation, her claims that she refused perks is false, and her opinions of abortion and global warming are alarming enough to make anyone see how extreme she is.

If McCain were elected, he would be the oldest president, whereas Obama would be the third youngest, hardly a comparison. If something were to happen to McCain, Palin would then be president, and everyone must take that into account when voting. She has virtually no experience and would be entirely lost if she were to make any big decisions. We need a president that knows what they are doing, and although McCain's policies aren't the best, they certainly aren't the worst. But having Palin as a running mate makes me frightened as to what they could do to this country. If there was anyone that could be a worse president than Bush, it would be Palin.

So people need to stop being mesmerized by the fact that she's a woman and see her for her policies, not for her gender. If you didn't want to vote for Clinton for her views, then don't vote for Palin for hers, not cause she has boobs.