Barak Obama has sealed his fate. He has made the biggest blunder of any presidential candidate since Walter Mondale and has virtually handed the election to John McCain on a silver Palin.

What is it that Obama did that makes me say this? Yesterday on Anderson Cooper 360 Obama was asked about his experience handling natural disasters like Gustav as compared to Sarah Palin’s as governor of Alaska. Realize that Anderson Cooper is not exactly of friend of the Republican Party and probably thought he was throwing Obama a softball. Well, talk a swing and a miss. Obama’s answer was:

When Conservatives address  America’s immigration laws it has to look into the next 50 years and determine what its needs will be: economic, social and yes, even political. The Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and O’Reilly gang is not very constructive in this regard and seems to be blind to what is in store for America if it doesn’t wish to emulate its European cousins across the Atlantic pond.

Take for example the gang’s position on those illegal immigrants that currently live and, I might add, work here. It wants to throw them out. I suppose, practically speaking, that also means their children, who, more than likely are American citizens.

He ran for the State Assembly at 24 and served just two years. After the death of his wife, he left politics for a few years to explore the lands of the US. Two years later, at the young age of 28, he returned home and ran for the Mayor of his home city. He came in third.

Soon after, though, he was appointed to the federal post of the Civil Service Commission where he served seven years under both a Republican & Democratic President.

At age 37, he took the role of Police Commissioner of his home city for just two short years, before returning to a Federal post, that of Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where his stay was also for just two years.

What a day it was and what a time it will be!  John McCain, the embattled presidential presumptive nominee of the Republican Party pulled the rabbit out of the hat with his choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as Vice President.  Americans in general and Republicans in particular viewed with awe a young American woman: a governor, a mother of five children, married over 20 years to her childhood sweetheart, a social, political and economic conservative.  Now, if the choice is between Barak Obama and John McCain, the American people have an opportunity to make that choice with the confidence of knowing that it is a real one.  And heaven knows as a nation, faced with at least two military challenges, numerous economic challenges both at home and abroad and political challenges involving how to establish new laws and new strategies for our continued domestic tranquility and the war against terror, we are ready to make that choice.

Oh yes, what a time it will be.  And Sarah Palin is just the right vice presidential nominee to place in clear relief the choices that are before us.  She brings to the discussion the common sense experience of an elected administrator that is essential to persuade the American people that soaring rhetoric is only as good as the strategies proposed.