Colin Powell is no Republican

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Originally Posted by Ferd

Yes. i watched it, and i noticed that it was a chop of a longer interview with Rove. AND AND, I remember watching Rove several times on different talking head shows making essentially that same point. Only in those occasions, the fact that Obama was inexperienced was also part of Roves comments and thus part of the reasoning.

given what I know about what Rove said in other interviews, it seems to me that the clip you are leaning on lacks full context (on purpose).

Clearly Kane and Palin represent very similar situations... or as you point out dissimilar in that Kane has more experience as both Mayor of a biger city and Gov. for a longer period.

But the context is the experience of the PRESIDENTIAL candidate! George W. Bush could not have gotten away with picking a novice. Nor could Obama and neither did. But suggesting that McCain did something unheard of in picking Palin as the second on his ticket, or that Palin for McCain is the same as Kane for Obama isnt putting those actions in context.

Ferd, here is the entire segment of that interview that had to do with Kaine. I do tend to post shorter vids because personally I think more people will watch the shorter the vids are. I did not edit anything or post a vid that left out any pertinent information. If you do have a vid or interview to post I would certainly be interested in watching it. However, I think that the full context of what Rove is saying is abundantly clear and that partisanship basically forced him to completely go the opposite direction. The root issue is clearly that Rove did not feel like Kaine was ready to be President and therefore was a political pick for Vice President and not one that reflected the best interest of the country. I don't see how it can be spin any other way.
Either way, I'm sure this is a dead horse by now. I would still be interested in other interviews that said differently though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xs4WPWWwDc