The Obama campaign has no class. Their reaction to McCain's choice of Sarah Palin to be VP this morning:

Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need, it's just more of the same.

Wait, did you hear the birds chirping? No congratulations in that statement, at all.

Hmm, let's respond to each of these points:

1) "Former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency." Or how about a "community organizer," originally elected in one of the most corrupt districts in the country, who had barely been in the US Senate long enough to take a breath before being pushed on the public as presidential material? This is an argument Obama does not want to enter into.

That Palin comes from a small town means she is an outsider. That plays well, especially when all the other candidates are Senators. If Obama wants to stay away from being attacked as elitist, he better stay away from begrudging Palin's political background from a small town.

Further, she's a governor as well as a mayor, Senator Obama. That means she has executive experience. And she got there by taking on the corrupt politicians in her own party. Americans like that kind of experience, and she's been at it longer than Obama has (since Bill Ayers hosted Obama's first fundraiser). I've never heard of Obama ever taking on the corruption in Chicago - because he has specifically benefitted from it.

2) "...commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade..." Good. Because last time I checked, the "right to an abortion" isn't found anywhere in our Constitution, and if there is ONE Supreme Court decision that deserves to be overturned, it's the one that says people have a constitutional right to murder their unborn children.

3) "...the agenda of Big Oil..." This is the biggest stretch of the bunch, and reveals how desperate Obama's campaign is. Her husband is a blue collar worker in the oil industry, from what I understand. The corruption she took on was specifically linked to oil companies.

4) "...George Bush's failed economic policies..." Trying to describe McCain/Palin as a 3rd Bush/Cheney term simply isn't going to work. In any case, if you think cutting wasteful spending, attacking corruption, and lowering taxes is a "failed" economic policy, then that's one more reason for me to not vote for you.

Later in the afternoon, Obama made some comments of congratulations. He tried to excuse the earlier lack of class by saying:

I think that, you know, campaigns start getting these hair triggers.

Yeah, these are people picked by Obama that work for him. And he tries to pass the buck.

That his campaign immediately went into attack mode, and distorted her record and belittled her experience, reveals how little class Obama and his campaign has.

More of the same, I guess.

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