Words of wisdom from Doug Wilder, the nation's first elected African American governor, including some pointed remarks on John McCain's wildly irresponsible pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Wilder said Obama should link President Bush and John McCain to an exploding national debt of nearly $10 trillion, the most frightening failures on Wall Street since the Great Depression and the billions spent on the Iraq war."These are the people who've been in charge, so the real question is do you want more of the same? If you want more of the same, Obama's not your guy," Wilder said.
He also said McCain could have done better finding a running mate than Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
"No one should criticize him for choosing her whether she's experienced or not. My concern is who are going to be the next people that you choose. If you're going to use that lever to determine expertise, God help us. If that is the cream of the crop, then God save the milk," Wilder said.
Obviously, Sarah Palin was NOT the "cream of the crop" (I can rattle off a dozen more qualified Republican women right off the top of my head). Unfortunately, John McCain puts politics first, country second. Given his horrendous lack of judgment, ignorance, and other personality flaws, if McCain is - god forbid - elected president on November 4, we can not only forget about "the milk," we can kiss goodbye a lot of other things that we care about (goodbye civil liberties, a woman's right to choose, checks and balances on presidential power, environmental protections, etc., etc.). In short, if McCain-Palin are elected, we are completely f***ed as a nation. Don't let it happen!