Week 5 #1

McCain’s Choice of Palin is Still Looked Down UponWhen Sarah Palin was announced as McCain’s running mate, the European reaction was ritacule. Europeans are used to having women in power (Margret Thatcher was elected prime minister three times). The idea of women in powerful places is not a new one for Europeans, so when Brits criticize Palin, it is not because she is a woman. CNN reporter Robin Oakley reported that
“the Irish Times warned, "just a heartbeat away from the biggest half-baked Alaskan nightmare." Britain's Financial Times said his selection of vice president raised serious questions about John McCain's judgment and added: "The Palin appointment is yet more proof of the way that abortion still dominates American politics." "
Oakley also added, “Europeans are appalled at the thought that someone who wants to be vice president of the most powerful nation on earth had so little interest in the rest of a world which is so vitally affected by the decisions of the man, or woman, in the White House.” Palin admitted to obtaining a passport in 2006. She obviously displayed no interest in the international scene until she was plucked from obscurity to be the vice president of the United States. Sarah Palin was 42 years old before she even obtained a passport to leave the country. Being a politician and not even traveling to Canada or Mexico(which you need a passport to do) seems outrageous to me.