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“He has a close personal relationship with John McCain. I don’t fully understand why he does,” said Reid, who said Lieberman called Tuesday from the Republic of Georgia to alert him to the move.

“I told him last night, ‘You know, Joe, I can’t stand John McCain.’ He said, ‘I know you feel that way,’ ” Reid said.

Amazing. As I listened to Vice-President Elect Sarah Palin last night and several times this morning, I recalled reading about this conversation on 21 AUG 2008. The article I read is located at The Swamp in the Tribune’s Washington Bureau. It has been quite a while since I have written anything and I had been mulling this topic around since I first read it. I suppose I can claim that VP Sarah Palin inspired this piece. As Sarah Palin said in her speech:

[…] Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. […]

I agree. When the “angry left”, as President Bush referred to them in his Convention address the other night, is so mortified about the GOP candidates they will face off with, we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have the right people going up against them. After the speeches were delivered and the Bobble Heads began the usual Spin Machines, one thing was obvious - even to the oblivious; the Democrats are in utter fear. I heard one Bobble Head, Susan Estrich, begin the usual nonsense saying that the GOP doesn’t want to put a 2-year Governor up against a 3-year Senator. I nearly spewed my coffee and where I come from, that is almost a criminal offense. Let’s take a look at that, shall we? Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska giving her Executive Experience and she was a Mayor of a small town for a number of years which also gave her Executice Experience. As Rudy Giuliani smartly stated, paraphrased, he guesses that a small town in Alaska isn’t quite swank enough for the Washington Elitisits. That set aside, there is no evidence that Sarah Palin was ever AWOL from her posts in governance. The exact opposite can be stated about The One, Barack Hussein Obama. He has been a US Senator for 3.5 years which equates to 1,277 days. He has a total on-the-record attendance of 143 days in 1,277 days. In the real world, he would have been fired for excessive absence at any job. He has been on America’s payroll getting paid to do a job that he hasn’t been doing. He has never had any Executive experience in any way, shape or form. Period. Ever. He has been a community organizer which is no big deal because my 13-year old does that. So, to compare Barack’s 143 days as a federal employee that has been absent from duty for 1,134 days to Sarah Palin’s years of experience is beyond absurd. No, Barack’s qualifications are not only non-existent, it will take him many years to catch up to the lowest of Governors. United States Senators do not get Executive experience accolades just by being a United States Senator. It comes with time and Senator John McCain has many years on The Hill first as a House Member and then a US Senator. Even in the Illinois Senate, Barack couldn’t make an “executive decision” 134 times…he voted “present” because he is incapable to commit. I present to you yet another money quote I heard last night and at other times as well:

[…] My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. […]

I couldn’t have said it better myself. I also heard on the Blog Talk Radio circuit on one of the Heading Right shows a particularly bizarre caller…this caller said that we should at least give Barack a shot at the White House…give him a chance. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. We are to hand the keys to the country to an inexperienced upstart that happens to have known ties to unrepentant domestic terrorists (William Ayers), known Syrian born billionaire and terrorist sympathizer (Rezko) and was mentored by a known communist poet in Hawaii that he refers to as Uncle Frank. That would be like taking a kid fresh out of High School that has a job of scraping the oil sludge from an oil tanker and telling the young lad, “Hey! You speak well (when coached and the teleprompter works) and when cleaned up you look great! Would you like a shot at Chief Editor of a major news outlet?” Please. Giving Barack “a shot at” the White House just to see how he would do is beyond the definition of mental instability. In most employment policies across this nation, a new hire gets a 90-day probation period. If you cut the grade after 90-days, you get hired on and your benefits begin to take affect. Sorry. The White House and the Presidency of this nation isn’t operable that way. John McCain is not only ready for the office of the Presidency, he is qualified. Barack may be “ready”, like a child is “ready” to open presents on Christmas Day but he most assuredly is not qualified.