John McCain picking Sarah Palin was a bad move!

Thankyou for giving me the chance to debate on this topic. This shall be interesting since we are nearly the same age. Actually , based on the title of this debate, all I must do in order to win this debate is disprove that McCain picking Palin was a bad move, not prove that she is the best choice. whatever. First off, you stated "Obama served in the US Senate for 4 years, that means that he has INTERNATIONAL experience too, and deals with government on a NATIONAL level, not the 7,000+ people and the lack of, or rather, NO INTERNATIONAL experience, that Palin has" Now, just on experience plain and simple, I hate to be one of those people that always say it but Obama only been in for 143 days before running for president. All Obama was, a Community Organizer. Did he do anything great? NO. Do you honestly think that Obama has gained any experience during his campaign? Obama does not have any "INTERNATIONAL" experience, which is what they call "Foreign Policy" . Governor Palin has even visited our troops in Iraq in July 2007, we all know Obama hasn't, and that should say something to you right there. - Governor Palin is actually more qualified to be Commander in Chief than Obama himself. Lets take a look, Obama was a small time community organizer Senator in Illinois,in the Legislative Branch of our Government. Gov. Palin went from small time city council to Mayor, which already beats out Obama's community organizer right there, then to beat the big named INCUMBENT and well respected Frank Murkowski for Governor of Alaska, in 2006. The Mayor,Governor, and PRESIDENT are parts of The EXECUTIVE branch. So on experience, Palin already beats Obama, who is running for President, remember, Palin is running as Vice President. I don't know where you got "The chances of him dying are high". The President has the best medical treatment, so that was far fetched of you to say that. Anyways, if he did "die" Palin would be ready to assume the leadership. You cant just assume things like McCain dying, but you can be prepared, which is why he picked Palin, which is better in foreign policy than Obama. "As we all know, gas is sky-rocketing. The average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.68 (unleaded). Now, Palin strongly promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), where such development has been the subject of a national debate. So instead of finding sources of natural energy to try and REDUCE gas costs, she ENCOURAGES it?! Excuse me, but I'd love to go to the pump and NOT have it cost me $50. Wouldn't you?" This hardly made any sense at all since you did not really have anything to debate over, and drilling ANWR would not make gas rise, Do you not understand what OPEC is and the reason why gas IS so high right now? Don't say the war. If we drilled ANWR than we wouldn't have to deal with all of the high tariffs and importing. You also just happened to leave out about when Palin even said we will EXPLORE other sources of energy, YOU CANT JUST SWITCH TO A DIFFERENT SOURCE IN A DAY, IT WOULD TAKE A FEW YEARS TO EVEN GET STARTED. There was nothing on any news station "that McCain only picked Palin because she is a younger woman, in an attempt to attract both the youth and former Hillary supporters", there was discussion and debate on Hannity and Colmes as to WHY he did, but no actual "report". When did "McCain think that the women WHO WERE voting for a democratic, liberal, pro-choice woman are now going to suddenly vote for a REPUBLICAN, *VERY* CONSERVATIVE, PRO-LIFE woman?!" ever say any of this? If you are just ASSUMING that because he picked Palin, then you are mistaken. I'm sure he picked Palin for a big part of that reason, but not JUST for that. The truth is, that a lot of women will vote for McCain and Palin anyways, and it is true that a large,important,chunk of Hilary supporters will vote for McCain. Yes, " the youth (those between the ages of 18-26) want CHANGE. We are tired of Bush and we don't want 4 more years of the last 8 years". I am glad I am one of the youth who are actually supporting McCain. Lets face it, our generation sucks. HARDLY ANY YOUTH no much about politics other than what they see on TV, and they think its "cool" to go along with the crowd and just vote for Obama, when the reality is they don't know a DAMNED THING when it comes to politics. Of course the Youth has Obama's vote, MY generation is just so young and naive and will listen to anything with out really gaining further queries. "It's an insult to our intelligence to think that just because you picked a woman closer to our age, that we are going to vote for him REGARDLESS of his policies" So that's totally hurting you when you say this because McCain isn't even going ATTEMPT to get the Youth, that's like telling McCain to Campaign in California. Even if he WAS trying to get the youth, I don't see how it would be an insult to our "intelligence" when the Youth know the least about politics. Your rant about her downs baby is not even....sane? is that the word? probably not. .....Her husband is very good in supporting the family, he can manage without his wife being there all the time. You just said in "P4" that "Being President is a FULL-TIME job, not to mention one of the most STRESSFUL jobs in the country. So how is she going to do both, one will have to suffer, and it's not going to be the country." Oh so now all of a sudden McCain has suddenly vanished and Palin is running for President? Her pregnant daughter is 17.........now if she was 15 I could see it being more difficult but not 17/5. Now Palin and McCain have most of the anti-abortion votes because Palin didn't abort her downs syndrome child. She has been a life long member of NRA, and she is hot. All these will certainly attract more votes So while choosing Palin which will certainly increase McCain's numbers in votes, she is the best pick