Assignment 3 King RNC Post

1. Blogtalk: Pregnant Pause
The media has lost control after the news of Sarah Palin's pregnant teenager. It is not right for people to be criticizing Mrs. Palin and calling her a bad mother. Parents can't only teach their kids right from wrong they can't control what they do. Just because her daughter is pregnant doesn't mean that Palin's beliefs are no longer valid. At the same time I believe it was selfish of her to drag her daughter through this. Going into the election she knew her daughter was pregnant and accepted the VP position anyway. She knew the media would rip her and her family apart because of this "scandal" but she accepted the VP position anyway for her own selfish wants. If people are going to be criticizing Palin it shouldn't be because she is a bad mother who can't teach her kids right and wrong it should be because she put her wants in front of the needs of her daughter. It was her daughter's mistake, but her daughter didn't chose to be paraded around in public.

2. What Might have Been
Personally I believe Mit Romney would have been a much better VP choice than Sarah Palin. I am still trying to figure out why it is that Romney wasn't picked. He has much more experience and would have brought in a lot of conservative voters. After the release of Palin's daughter conservative voters might be thinking twice before voting for McCain. A lot of people see Palin's lack of Washington experience as a good thing; which to a point it probably is considering all the corrupt Washington politicians, and all things considered McCain has enough Washington experience for the both of them. People are looking at Palin as a good compliment to McCain, and a good VP choice. However if you consider McCain's age is she the best vp choice? This is where I believe Romney would have been a better pick. I believe if old age caught up with McCain during his presidency Palin is not ready to lead the nation as a president. People are worried about Obama's experience, well she has even less. If need be Romney would have been ready to be president.
3. I paid attention to the RNC, but not as much as I did the DNC. However I did watch the speeches Wednesday night giving by Rudolph Guiliani, and Sarah Palin. It's obvious that public speaking isn't something new to these politicians, as they had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands. I've always thought Guiliani was a great speaker, and I thought his RNC speech was outstanding, but a little provocative. His clever little jokes were good for his audience, but I believe he took a couple of cheap shots at the democrats for example his "if I was Obiden I'd get that VP thing in writing." It irritates me when politicians are called "flip - floppers", I believe you need to be able to take a definite stance of certain issues, but as the United States grows and chances your views should as well. What was good for the economy ten years ago even five years ago certainly isn't good for it now. So although I thought Guiliani gave a good speech I believe his cheap shots were immature, and pathetic. Palin as well gave an outstanding speech, although I didn't really get a sense of what she wanted to do for our country. I felt as if she just outlined her experiences and talked about how she was qualified for the job despite what the democrats thought, however she didn't give anything to back it up. She gave her experience but past experience means nothing if you don't have any ideas for the future. However it became obvious Wednesday night one of the reason's McCain picked her was her outstanding public speaking abilities, although it highlights his poor public speaking
abilities.