Fear of a Palin Presidency Drives US Expats to Vote for Obama

[Eurobabe]

Fear of a Palin Presidency Drives US Expats to Vote for Obama (Deutsche Welle)

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, left, smiles as his Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pumps her fist.
The economy, taxes and America's image are hot-button issues for US expats in Germany. But even Republicans are now going Democrat for a far more compelling reason: Fear that Sarah Palin could become president.

Jim Sides, 55, a Californian living in Bonn, is a swing voter who cast his ballot for President George W. Bush in 2004. This time the one single factor driving him to the Democratic ticket is the possibility that the Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a heartbeat away from the American presidency.

If John McCain is elected next Tuesday, the 72- year-old Republican senator from Arizona, who has battled skin cancer, would become the oldest US president in history.

“Let’s say McCain doesn’t make it health-wise -- then we’d wind up with Caribou Barbie in the White House,” Sides said, referring to the Alaskan governor’s bouffant hairdo and the political lightweight impression Palin has made on millions of television viewers.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3756020,00.html

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:rofl: Caribou Barbie :rofl:

Sorry I don't have time to make this all pretty, I need to post and get out of here today

[JCMach1]

1. Have seen some right-wing, to fence-sitters switch here over her too

She sank any chance he had by caving to the neocons and the religious right with his VP pick.