Thought For The Day 8.30.08

Happy Birthday John…

“The person I'm about to introduce to you was a union member and is married to a union member and understands the problems, the hopes and the values of working people, knows what it's like to worry about mortgage payments and health care and the cost of gasoline

and the cost of groceries”, said John McCain.

He added that “she's not from Washington” and that “she's fought oil companies and party bosses and do-nothing bureaucrats and anyone who puts their interests before the interests of the people she swore an oath to serve.”

“She's exactly who I need. She's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second," he argued.

(She is also the mother of 5 children including one serving in the army and a newborn infant with Downs Syndrome)

What’s sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about the 2004 election is that the majority of married women voted for President Bush over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. And now she gives all women, including disappointed Hillary Clinton supporters another option.

She may not be as experienced in foreign policy as her VP opponent, but neither is Barack Obama, and she is the commander-in-chief of Alaska's National Guard mother of one of those troops.

Meet Sarah Palin

“This would be a pretty shrewd pick, but one not without risk,” said Republican consultant Jason Roe, a few hours before McCain revealed his choice.