Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his vice presidential running mate yesterday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44.
Casey Mayville reports for Government Technology, “Elected governor in 2006, Palin became Alaska’s first female governor, as well as its youngest. She will be the first politician from Alaska to run on a national ticket in a campaign for vice president.”
“Palin has made efforts to expand the use of technology in Alaska. In 2007, Palin announced a new online training program for workforce development. The Work Ready/College Ready program helped to assess skills and offered training courses,” Mayville reports. “‘The skills needed to enter many vocations are similar to the skills needed to get into college,’ explained Palin at the time. ‘Work Ready/College Ready lets students know what level of skill they need for the occupations they’re interested in, how well they match up in those skill levels and it provides training to reach their goals.'”
Full article here.
More about Alaska’s “Work Ready/College Ready” program that was announced by Sarah Palin last August via GovTech here.
Carrie Tait reports for The Financial Post,” Ms. Palin, 44, is a lifetime NRA member who is in charge of a conservative state. She’s bullish on drilling offshore and opening up more of the contentious Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to exploration and production. ‘People are realizing, too, there’s been some deception, I think, from some on what ANWR is all about. Of the 20 million acres up there, we’re looking at 2,000 acres as a footprint,’ she said in the interview. ‘With new technology, with directional drilling, maybe that footprint [will] shrink even more.'”
MacDailyNews Note: CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo talks with Sarah Palin about ANWR drilling, which also touches on technology, in an 11:41 video interview here.
Stefanie Olsen reports for CNET, “Mead Treadwell, a technology-focused venture capitalist and chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, a federal advisory commission to President Bush and Congress on Arctic research issues, said he met Palin when she was the mayor of Wasilla, a small town in Alaska. Treadwell said that she has long been open-minded about the need for technology to solve problems.”
“‘We’re a natural energy economy and you can’t drill on- or offshore without bringing the best technology, like 3D seismic technology to find areas for drilling, directional drilling to exploit it, and satellites. She’s supportive of new tech,’ Treadwell said,” Olsen reports.
“Palin’s father-in-law was at one time staff officer at the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation, the state’s seed capital fund for technology. According to Treadwell, she was critical of her incumbent Republican rival Frank Murkowski in 2006 when he shut the foundation down. In her inaugural address as governor, she emphasized the value of research into science and technology,” Olsen reports.
“Despite Alaska’s absence of a big tech industry, the state’s chief industries, oil and gas, as well as some telecommunications, require cutting-edge technology. Treadwell said that in discussions with Palin about balancing development vs. the environment, she typically points to technology as a solution,” Olsen reports.
Full article here.
While we’re still exploring exactly which tech devices Palin uses currently, Bridget Carey reported yesterday for The Miami Herald of “the BlackBerry-wielding Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had bloggers buzzing early Friday about her tech-centric lifestyle. She’s also three years younger than Obama.”
MacDailyNews Take: Send Palin an iPhone immediately, Apple!
As for Obama’s V.P. pick, Joseph Biden, 65, Carey reports, “The technology issue isn’t so much of his wired lifestyle as it is about his past stances on technology issues like Internet freedom and privacy. Biden has spoken out against peer-to-peer networks that allow the sharing of music and other copyrighted material. On the topic of Internet privacy, he is in favor of allowing communications companies to hand over a user’s personal information to the government, but with the intention to crack down on child porn and piracy.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Michael R.,” “Dennis,” and “Jen” for the heads up.]
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RE:” And before you bring up the so-called “ethical issue” of her brother and law being fired, show me some actual proof that she was involved. Oh, I forgot, in politics all that matters is perception, damn the truth.”
So what if she was involved, more power to her on that.
Think about it. As Governor, if she knew something about her brother-in-law that he should be fired for, she would be derelict in her duty if she DID NOT get him fired.
Mr. Reee,
That’s too bad. Inferior genes, must be. McCain’s mother is still alive and going strong:
We will win. And you will lose.
@ macca
Well considering that the Dem ticket has ZERO executive experience…
At least Palin has actually RUN a government….
“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/04/clinton-mccain-has-more-_n_89758.html
“At least Palin has actually RUN a government….”
not to mention a company.
On a scale of 1 to 10, running virtually ANY company ranks a 10, with possible a 2.33457 score for any government experience.
“It’s a great day for the nation and Alaskans.”
Woo. Ms. Palin was mayor of a hamlet of 7,000 before being
governor of a state of 600,000 mostly white folk. So, it makes
perfect sense to extrapolate from these data points and conclude
she’s ready to take on governing a country of 300,000,000 plus in
the middle of two wars, an energy crisis, multiple foreign policy
disasters, the global warming issue, etc.
You right wingers Republicans need to reboot.
Oh, and I agree with the earlier poster, MDN needed to pay some
bills. Otherwise, why would they put this story on this site.
A snowball’s chance in hell.
Obama/Biden ’08!
Fskc all you people. First I have no ratings and my network sucks donkey dick (literally) and now I’m going to lose the White House yet again. Fsck!!!
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
— Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green (R)
(Green is from Palin’s home town of Wasilla.)
” What this story has to do with the world of Macintosh is beyond me, but I’ll play”
It doesn’t, it’s called flame baiting
“McCain’s choice of running mate is shamefully irresponsible.”
It couldn’t be said any better, alansky.
You know who agrees? Why none other than Karl Rove, an informal Senior Advisor of sorts to the McCain camp. This is what Rove had to say about the prospect of Obama choosing Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as his VP:
“With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished.”
“I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.”
“So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with — is this person capable of being president of the United States?'”
CBS News summarized Rove’s other statements as follows:
“He expects presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama to choose a running mate based on political calculations, not the person’s readiness for the job.
“‘I think he’s going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice,’ Rove said. ‘He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He’s not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president.'”
But USA Today notes this afternoon in the lead to its Palin story, McCain chose her primarily to go after women and possibly disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters — not the “responsibilities of president.”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003844467
Dan Quayle in a skirt.
‘Nuff said.
MDN = masters at flame baiting = master-flame-baters.
“Woo. Ms. Palin was mayor of a hamlet of 7,000 before being
governor of a state of 600,000 mostly white folk. So, it makes
perfect sense to extrapolate from these data points and conclude
she’s ready to take on governing a country of 300,000,000 plus in
the middle of two wars, an energy crisis, multiple foreign policy
disasters, the global warming issue, etc. “
Actually, yes. If you have strong consistent stable values, and a great deal of varied life experience and good character, it is most likely that she could do a much better job of managing your list which than a member of the professional political species could do.
Sarah Palin has more executive-level decision-making and governing experience in two years than Obama and Biden do combined.
McCain won the election yesterday.
Historians and scholars are baffled by Palin’s lack of credentials, according to this new article on the front page of Politico:
Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.
So unconventional was McCain’s choice that it left students of the presidency literally “stunned,” in the words of Joel Goldstein, a St. Louis University law professor and scholar of the vice presidency. “Being governor of a small state for less than two years is not consistent with the normal criteria for determining who’s of presidential caliber,” said Goldstein.
“I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern history,” said presidential historian Matthew Dallek.
That includes Spiro T. Agnew, Richard Nixon’s first vice president, who was governor of a medium-sized state, Maryland, for two years, and before that, executive of suburban Baltimore County, the expansive jurisdiction that borders and exceeds in population the city of Baltimore.
It also includes George H.W. Bush’s vice president, Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle, who had served in the House and Senate for 12 years before taking office. And it also includes New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, who served three terms in the House before Walter Mondale chose her in 1984 as the first woman candidate on a major party ticket.
“The fact that he would have to go to somebody who is clearly unqualified to be president makes Obama look like an elder statesman.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/13001.html
A member of the professional political species? Like John McCain?
WTF. Do you really trust mcain? He threw a hail mary on 3rd down. He is a desparate ptsd syndrome affected old pos. Not only would I not want him with his finger on the nookular trigger, I equally maybe even moreso don’t want mrs hotty mom with her perfectly manicured nails near it. Trying to compare he with Hillary is about as stupid as saying windows is just as good and stable as osx. If you thought mcain had good judgement before and this choice for vp is an example of his deteriating mind then you might as well just hang a confederate flag off the aide of your mansion. You have no clue what has happened in this country over the last eight years and you don’t really love this country and you don’t value life beyond your fake Christian facade. If you really believe that paleface is the very best person to be commander in chief then you have a very cynical view of the world. Other than her hotness and gun credentials howvdoes she rise to the best second person the GOP could choose from. She just looks like the faux foxes faux news puts on their anchor desks. If this is the best we can offer the world for our leaders, we are fubar.
“A member of the professional political species? Like John McCain?:
Point taken, but unfortunately the political species is all we have, and you have to make your choices from within the species.
I’m baffled that supporters of the woefully inexperienced Obama think that nobody will notice Obama’s woeful inexperience when they engage in petty attacks on Palin that will only drive more and more voters to the extremely experienced John McCain.
Don’t you simpletons understand that McCain wants you to attack Palin on “inexpereince?”
You pawns are helping McCain win. Not that he even needs your help anymore. Palin is a true phenom.
R2: “But USA Today notes this afternoon in the lead to its Palin story, McCain chose her primarily to go after women and possibly disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters — not the “responsibilities of president.”
LOLZ you’re seriously quoting USA Today?
I’m not even sure I should comment, but meh..
Naw, just keep talking R2. Carry on buddy.
:::rolls eyes::::
Politico Mac User “You pawns are helping McCain win. Not that he even needs your help anymore. Palin is a true phenom.”
I’m beginning to think more and more this is going to be a rout, with Democrats stunned (and not in a happy way).
I see Palin as the next Reagan.
R2: “”I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern history,” said presidential historian Matthew Dallek.”
That you can’t see the irony of this statement I find most amusing.
Keep talking R2.
:::grabs popcorn:::