Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

Just as Obama had made his announcement of his running mate this past week, the Republicans finalized the upcoming ticket as McCain chose his VP partner Sarah Palin, a conservative Alaskan governor.  The bill for November is shaping up to be an angle of race/war experience vs age/gender.  Yet the election will be about change in American politics because the upcoming will be a first no matter what.

However, the choice by McCain is probably going to be his death knell.  I read an interesting comment comparing Palin to Dan Quayle.  Well, I think McCain's choice is far worse than Quayle for himself because Palin is a woman.  It's painfully obvious that McCain wants to respond to the power Obama-Biden bill in presenting an option for change.  But this is the clearly the wrong candidate.  McCain's choice was to placate conservatives and those wanting change.  Shes' unknown though and she's just a typical conservative with a gender disguise.

In the end though, when you balance things out, the age and gender factor will weaken McCain's side and kill his chances of winning the election.  Obama's campaigning is just far too strong, imo.  I don't favor Joe Biden for the record, but Obama's side seems far more well rounded.

McCain's campaign is just more of the same.  It's the ancient face of America.  Obama is just sophisticated, cool and now (minus Biden).  Truthfully though, neither group is ideal for me, but we'll have to wait and see.