John McCain

John McCain was on “The View” yesterday and one of the topics of discussion was Roe v. Wade. McCain was explaining that he believes the law should be overturned, not because he is against abortion, but because its blatantly unconstitutional–a “law” legislated by the bench, rather than the legislature. McCain said that he believed if Roe v. Wade were overturned, the States would “make their own decisions”. McCain was explaining his belief that the Constitution calls for a small, non-intrusive national government, and leaves to the states the establishment of laws that were not directly reserved for the federal government.

Whoopi Goldberg then said to McCain that it sounds like he wanted “strict constitutionalists” and then in her full ignorant glory, asked

“Should I be worried about being a slave, about being returned to slavery because certain things happened in the Constitution that you had to change?”

Then she begins this ridiculous display of fanning herself out of worry that somehow John McCain was going to slap her in irons and throw her on the slave boat.

Unfortunately, when it came to the point McCain was trying to make, Whoopi completely missed the boat. (pun intended)

MORE: Michelle Malkin; Hot Air

Just announced: John McCain has selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP running-mate! Palin, a little-known, but popular, reform-minded woman has taken Alaska by storm, cleaning up a government plagued by corruption.

I think she’s a breath of fresh air in the stale, stagnant world of politics. Of course, her relative youth and lack of executive experience may be a liability for McCain, who cited those reasons for Obama’s naivete. However, Palin possesses a leadership quality that seperates her from the Democratic presidential nominee, integrity!

I have a good feeling about this…

MORE: Ed Morrissey at Hot Air points out that

“McCain can remind voters who has the real record of reform. Obama talks a lot about it but has no actual record of reform, and for a running mate, he chose a 35-year Washington insider with all sorts of connections to lobbyists and pork. McCain has fought pork, taken real political risks to fight undue influence of lobbyists, and he picked an outsider who took on her own party — and won.

This is change you can believe in, and not change that amounts to all talk.”

I have a very good feeling about this!

Senator Barack Obama, campaigning for President in Levittown, PA, claims his foreign policy credentials stem from “real-life” experiences abroad. Apparently growing up in Indonesia, spending three weeks in Pakistan with a side trip to India and having ties to relatives in Kenya gives one the requisite foreign policy experience to be President of the United States. It’s laughable!

Senator Obama and I are roughly the same age. In the last twenty years or so, I’ve visited or lived in Portugal (and the Azores), Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Guam and Mexico; I’ve also lived in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Colorado and New Mexico; and I’ve visited most of the remaining United States. Therefore based on my broad foreign policy (and domestic!) “real-life” experience, I am hereby announcing my candidacy for President of the United States of America!

Unlike Senator Obama, I tout my experience tongue-in-cheek and recognize it for what it is and more importantly what it is not: qualifying experience to be President. Furthermore, unlike Obama, I will not even attempt to equate my experiences with those of Senator John McCain. As Mark Salter, a McCain senior adviser points out:

“When John McCain travels on official business, he meets with presidents, prime ministers, foreign and defense ministers, members of parliament, human rights leaders, N.G.O.’s, business leaders and journalists so that he acquires a full understanding of the country he visits and the issues at stake in our relations” … “Oh, and as Senator Obama may know, he has actually spent some time living abroad as well.”

Senator Obama: You do not have the first-hand foreign-policy experience of Senator McCain; stop pushing your childhood and backpacking college days as an equivalent. A mark of good leadership is to recognize one’s limitations and legitimately work to overcome them. Spinning your limited credentials in this area into something more than they are demonstrates that you recognize those shortcomings; stop making excuses and trying to veil those shortcomings in rhetoric–if you want to be President, try being honest with the American people!

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Pejman Yousefzadeh at RedState is also announcing his candidacy based on “extensive” travels abroad.

The Confederate Yankee responds to a Huffington Post article that essentially claims Obama is a foreign policy expert. Great read!