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It appears the Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has decided to throw a curve ball at Obama Nation. He has done the one thing Barack Obama refused to do, he has chosen a woman to be his running-mate.
So who is Sarah Palin? I did some looking into her background. By that I of course mean that I looked her up on Wikipedia. What I found was interesting:
- She is 44 years old
- She is married to a Yup’ik Eskimo named “Todd”.
- Her oldest son enlisted in the U.S. Army last year and will be deploying to Iraq next month.
- She is staunchly anti-abortion.
- She is a life-time member of the NRA.
- She recently gave birth to a child with Down syndrome.
- She enjoys killing and eating defenseless animals.
- She owns her own float-plane.
- She finished in 2nd place in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant.
- She admits that she used to smoke marijuana when it was legal in Alaska.
So there you go. That’s pretty much all you need to know about John McCain’s running-mate.
She reportedly will be joining John McCain in Dayton, Ohio to officially make the announcement. If it was me and I had to go to Dayton to become Vice-President, I would turn down the offer.
Schooly
/ August 29, 2008I had no idea Todd was an Eskimo name! See, you learn something new every day…
Bentcorner
/ August 29, 2008You know, now that you point that out, it sounds a whole lot less exotic then I originally thought.
Schooly
/ August 29, 2008On a more serious note, this ought to seriously throw a curve-ball in this mix. Although the fact that she’s pretty damn conservative might mitigate that.
DISCLOSURE: Even though I don’t agree with any of her politics, it’s pretty cool that she owns a float-plane.
Schooly
/ August 29, 2008It would be like traveling deep into the Amazon basin and discovering a tribe of people that have never had contact with the outside world, and then finding out its chief’s name is Dave.
Jesse Jace
/ August 30, 2008“If it was me and I had to go to Dayton to become Vice-President, I would turn down the offer.”
You might not, if only for the chance to get out of Alaska.