USA Today's Post-election Thoughts

USA Today provided an editorial Post-election thoughts yesterday in which they claimed “When it comes to picking vice presidents, two firm rules apply. First, do no harm to your campaign. Second, pick someone who is ready to be president.”

Whatever harm was done to McCain wasn’t Palin’s fault. It was a media that was determined to destroy her. How many times were unsubstantiated negative reports published about Palin, only to be shown falacious later? Sometimes a retraction was printed but by then the damage was done.

Make an unsubstantiated claim, let people run with it, and say we were wrong (but not sorry) later. How many people that took the nuggets of deception actually saw the retraction? How many people, right up to election day, were still repeating completely false claims like Palin tried to ban books.

As for Palin not being ready for President. Neither she or Obama has any foreign policy experience but Palin had more executive experience than Obama. This is why Obama deceptively tried to compare his running a presidential campaign (with people who believe in his cause) to Palin as a mayor. Even though, at the time he was running a campaign, Palin was running a state government where she had to unite people from different factions and with different agendas. And even though he introduced his comparison by referring to Palin as Governor.

Palin was ruthlessly attacked as not ready and would be one heartbeat away from the presidency. Yet, if USA Today applied the same standard to Obama, he is far less ready to be the heartbeat of the presidency.

Joe Biden, during the VP debate, looked in the camera and lied that Obama had never claimed he would sit down with Ahmendijed without preconditions even though this same Joe Biden (along with Hillary Clinton and others) criticized Obama at the time for making that very statement. Yet, these and other intential false statements by Biden, not to mentioned his gaffes, should have harmed Obama's campaign yet the media viewed these with cataracts.

Let’s be honest. Why would the world need to test Barak Obama within six months of taking office (let alone Russia sending a message one day after the election) as Biden stated unless they wanted to see if he was ready to be president? Could it be that when Russia was pillaging Georgia, Obama stated, "Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show retraint."?

Did the thought enter anyone's mind that the world would truly test McCain?

Perhaps, Palin simply needed to learn to lie through her teeth and learn to make authentic gaffes (something of which the media was happy to accuse her anyway) to be qualified to be president.