Who is Sarah Palin?

Interesting news to wake up to this morning. John McCain selects "gun-totting" Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice-President. Over the next two months, we are going to get to know everything and more about Palin. (Her Wikipedia article has already been updated with her status as McCain's running mate.)

My first thought was this McCain's attempt to woo the uncertain Democrats who don't necessarily like Barack Obama. Most of the uncertain democrats are women, some of them are Hillary Clinton supporters. Palin finished her speech with references to former women who pushed at the political glass ceiling: Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton. (The response to Clinton's mention was both claps and boos.) These mentions cemented the key reason why Palin was selected.

Waiting to see how some of the narrow-minded Republicans respond. This announcement makes the Presidential campaign even more interesting.

Comments

[-Lisa]

McCain choosing this woman pretty much cemented my decision to vote Obama/Biden. It's so ridiculous to choose a woman just to woo uncertain Hillary fans. I was an uncertain Hillary fan, but feel this is demeaning to women just have her because she's a woman.

There is no way he chose her for experience and being the right person for the job. He chose her just to win votes from the uncertain women and NRA members. She may be an intelligent woman, but I feel sorry for her to be used in such a way.