Sarah Palin vs. Barak Obama

For some odd reason I have recently gotten into politics. About a month ago, I absolutely hated them. Hated. Them. But now lately I've been thinking about it, and realized, "You can't live with 'em, and you can't live without them." For Christmas I bought Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, and it is very inspiring and insightful. I suggest anyone read it, Republican or Democrat.

I've also been thinking about the 2012 elections. It has been rumored that Obama and Palin will run, and I wanted to know if you could vote, which one would you choose? Please remember not to choose a candidate because of their skin color or their accent.


my vote: Sarah Palin

Moved this to the lounge.

For me, neither. I may be one of the few who likes both of them, and I think both get more criticism than they deserve. But, like Obama in 2008, Palin doesn't have much experience and that worries me. With Obama, he doesn't really support free trade and doesn't seem to have any clout with anyone.

So I'd probably vote libertarian again if Palin got the Republican nod. But I highly doubt she'll be the nominee.Probably Pawlenty or Romney instead.

I'm an Obamacrat. 'Nough said. -.-

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To even put Palin and Obama together and think that Palin stands a chance is an insult to Obama, it's like going oh I don't know who are we going to bring back from the dead you, Ghandi or Hitler.

Sorry if you think I'm being harsh but being British and never being able to vote in America means that I feel pretty strongly about it. I mean do you know how lucky you are to have Obama. Anyway I could probably write about like ten pages complaining about Palin and how's she's stupid. What do you see in Palin anyway????

jok101 wrote:OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To even put Palin and Obama together and think that Palin stands a chance is an insult to Obama, it's like going oh I don't know who are we going to bring back from the dead you, Ghandi or Hitler.

Sorry if you think I'm being harsh but being British and never being able to vote in America means that I feel pretty strongly about it. I mean do you know how lucky you are to have Obama. Anyway I could probably write about like ten pages complaining about Palin and how's she's stupid. What do you see in Palin anyway????

Jok, this topic is not a debate. Calm down, think rationally, and if you cannot contain anger and discuss the topic seriously, then join the debate group and start a debate.

Neither...Kucinich all the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich_presidential_campaign,_2008

Dude, Kucinich, really? XD

I think all the above choices would be pretty terrible. Pat Buchanan, anyone? ;D

EDIT: Also, Nate, you are full of win. xD

I've met Sarah Palin. I'm an Alaskan living in the capital city, and every year the governor of Alaska holds an open house at Christmas. People like up to shake his or her hand. I shook her hand. At the time she wasn't famous at all, though, except for being Alaska's first female governor.

She didn't do that great a job as a governor, though, in the brief time she was one before she quit. She had a hard time answering a question straight, a lot of the time she'd say stuff that was really vague as an effort to please both democrats and republicans.

Unless Obama does something I think is truly terrible before the election, he's got my vote. I think it's amazing that my country has a Nobel Peace Prize winner as a president. When he got elected I was in Utah, and I went and added his name to all the computer's spell check dictionaries.

Neither of them really should be/have been president, in my opinion. Everyone in politics is a scumbag. A scumbag or crazy. I don't know which one Palin is, which worries me. Everything that comes out of her mouth worries me. Obama doesn't have enough experience or wisdom. And I hate Democrats. And Republicans. And Independents, the lazy-mans party. The only candidate I ever like is one from the green party, because they are too busy caring about the trees to care about me, which is good, because no good can come out of that. Barring that, I'd judge by skin color or accent.

I believe wholeheartedly in either Anarchy or Communism, anyways. And neither of those have presidents.

Critiq wrote:Neither of them really should be/have been president, in my opinion. Everyone in politics is a scumbag. A scumbag or crazy.

That's quite a big assumption there.

I definitely choose Obama. Obama isn't doing great at the moment, but would you trust Palin during a recession?

Nope, I worked on Capitol Hill for three years doing Energy and Environmental policy for a Congresswoman on the Ways and Means committee. It's not a very big assumption at all to say that everyone in politics is a scumbag

*giggles*

Their scumbaggary knows no bounds.


Sorry, I felt an unhealthy urge to say that.

Nate wrote:Nope, I worked on Capitol Hill for three years doing Energy and Environmental policy for a Congresswoman on the Ways and Means committee. It's not a very big assumption at all to say that everyone in politics is a scumbag

Well I'm sure there's some nice politician out there.

But I guess I stand corrected.